Extensions

Packaging Tools Requires: project open

Add optional services and libraries to extend your project's functionality.

Extensions are optional services and libraries you can add to your project to extend the Core OpenPV Functionality. On the right, Service Actions offers Refresh Versions, Add an Extension..., Remove Extension..., Configure Extension..., and Docs & Help.

Add an Extension

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1. The Extensions panel lists the extensions added to your project — here, none yet, in the Ahsoka.CS.SimpleUI project. Click Add an Extension... in Service Actions.

   

2. A dialog lists every extension available to add, with its available version.

   Which display family each extension supports:

   • Bluetooth Extension (Select & Pro)
   • Audio Manager Extension (Pro only)
   • Control Service Extension (Select & Pro)
   • Diagnostic Extension (Select & Pro)
   • Storyboard Extension (Select & Pro)
   • Video Player Extension (Pro only)
   Note: Include Pre-Release Extension Versions controls whether pre-release builds — early versions published ahead of a full release — are listed and installed as well as released ones. It's the same setting as Show Pre-Release Versions on the panel, and it's ticked by default. It's cleared in this walkthrough, so only released versions are installed.
   

3. Click an extension to select it — here, Bluetooth Extension — and click Install Extension. A progress bar runs along the bottom of the dialog while it downloads and installs; it often finishes almost straight away if it's already cached on your PC.

   

4. The dialog closes and the extension appears in the list, with its Installed version — here, 5.17.1.

   

5. To add another, click Add an Extension... again. Extensions you've already added aren't listed. Select Storyboard Extension, and click Install Extension.

   

6. Both extensions are now listed — Bluetooth Extension 5.17.1 and Storyboard Extension 5.11.0.

   

Configure Extension

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1. Click a row to select it — here, Bluetooth Extension — and click Configure Extension....

   

2. Each extension has its own configuration options. Bluetooth Extension opens its adapter setup — Connection Setup (local name, adapter index, device path, Bluetooth stack, and phone, headset and data profiles) and Class of Device.

   

3. Close it, select Storyboard Extension instead, and click Configure Extension... again.

   

4. Storyboard Extension opens a completely different dialog, Configure Storyboard — Project (its config file and engine paths), Launch Configurations, and Generator.

   

Docs & Help

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1. Click a row to select it — here, Bluetooth Extension — and click Docs & Help.

   

2. This opens that extension's own documentation in your browser, matching the version installed in your project — here, a full reference for Bluetooth Extension, covering Getting Started, Core Concepts, Configuration, Troubleshooting and more.

   

Remove Extension

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1. Click a row to select it — here, Storyboard Extension — and click Remove Extension....

   

2. The extension is removed right away — there's no confirmation. The panel goes back to just Bluetooth Extension.