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AsTeRICS Grid\n\n![AsTeRICS Grid use cases](docs/ag-use-cases.png)\n\nCreate **grid-based user interfaces** that are **flexible and fully accessible**.\n\nUse it for: \n* **Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)**: very simple to highly complex communication boards\n* **Media access**: browse and play YouTube, web radios, podcasts\n* **Smart Home control**: operate devices directly or integrate with platforms like [openHAB](https://www.openhab.org/) or [HomeAssistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/)\n\n**Accessible to everyone**: can be operated via **mouse click, touch, keyboard, single switch, or eye gaze** — adaptable to any user's abilities.\n\n## Features\n\n* **Cross-platform**: works on PC, smartphone, and tablet across Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS\n* **No installation required**, just open [grid.asterics.eu](https://grid.asterics.eu/) in the browser (or install it to your desktop or home screen)\n* **Offline capable**: works without an internet connection\n* Optional **cloud sync**: synchronize your configuration across devices (with **end-to-end encryption**)\n* **Customizable grid system**: flexible layouts tailored to any use case\n* **Wide range of input methods**:  click, touch, hover, scanning, keyboard, switches — or advanced methods like eye tracking, head tracking, or EMG muscle sensors (via the [AsTeRICS Framework](https://www.asterics.eu/get-started/Overview.html))\n\n### AAC-related features\n\n* **Text-to-speech** in multiple languages (depending on the device)\n* **Multilingual support**: build communicators that support different languages\n* Integrated search for **free AAC symbols** from [ARASAAC](https://arasaac.org/) and [Open Symbols](https://www.opensymbols.org/)\n* **Word forms**: enable automatic inflections (e.g. conjugations, plurals)\n* **Customizable keyboards** with **word prediction** and **self-learning dictionaries**\n* **Global grid**: define elements that appear across all pages (e.g. for core vocabulary)\n* **Progressive language**: design communicators for various language development levels\n* **Share created sentences** with any other app (e.g. WhatsApp)\n* **Built-in messenger**: chat within the app using text, emojis, or pictograms – powered by [Matrix](https://matrix.org/)\n\n### Smart Home and media access\n\n* **Smart Home control**: directly via HTTP actions or connect with [openHAB](https://www.openhab.org/) or [HomeAssistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/)\n* **Live elements**: display status of the app or external devices\n* **Web radio**: play any radio station - powered by [radio-browser.info](http://www.radio-browser.info/gui/#!/)\n* **Podcasts**: listen to any podcast - powered by [podcastindex.org]()\n* **YouTube access**: search and play videos directly within the app\n\n## Where to Use It\n\nThere are three online versions of AsTeRICS Grid:\n\n* https://grid.asterics.eu/ current stable release\n* https://grid.asterics.eu/latest/ current testing (beta) release, possibly unstable\n* http://grid.asterics-foundation.org/ non-https version, but otherwise exactly the same app as https://grid.asterics.eu/ - may be used in cases where interaction with local resources (e.g. HTTP action) is needed and [browsers are refusing it because of mixed content](https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS-Grid/discussions/410). \n\n## Documentation\nSee [User documentation](docs/documentation_user/README.md) or [AsTeRICS Grid Playlist on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0UXHkT03dGrIHldlEKR0ZWfNMkShuTNz).\n\nAlso see [Developer documentation (not finished, maybe outdated)](docs/documentation_dev/README.md) and the [Collaboration guide](docs/documentation_dev/collaboration.md).\n\n## Run project locally\n1. clone the project `git clone git@github.com:asterics/AsTeRICS-Grid.git`\n2. install node.js https://nodejs.org/\n3. install yarn, see https://yarnpkg.com/\n4. go to the directory of the cloned project and run `yarn install`\n5. run `npm run start` and open http://localhost:9095\n\n## Npm scripts\nAfter `yarn install` the following commands are available:\n1. `npm run start` --\u003e starts a webserver serving the AsTeRICS grid on `http://localhost:9095`, does hot reloading if js-sources change.\n2. `npm run build` --\u003e builds the js-files in folder `src` to `app/build` folder.\n3. `npm run start-auth` --\u003e runs [couch-auth](https://github.com/perfood/couch-auth) locally and makes it possible to create \"online users\" within the locally running application. A local [CouchDb](https://couchdb.apache.org/) instance is necessary in order to work.\n4. `npm run release` -\u003e releases the current version with a new tag and push it to `gh-pages` branch in order to be served at https://grid.asterics.eu/\n5. `npm run release-latest` -\u003e same as `npm run release` but with destination https://grid.asterics.eu/latest/\n5. `npm run test` -\u003e runs tests of the project using [Jest](https://jestjs.io/).\n\n## Support us\nWhile development is currently funded within research projects (see below), the non-profit [AsTeRICS Foundation](https://www.asterics-foundation.org/) pays for the running server costs. If you want to contribute to these costs, you're very welcome to donate:\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"Donate with PayPal\" href=\"https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=38AJJNS427MJ2\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin-right:3em\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS-Grid/raw/master/app/img/donate-paypal.png\" width=300/\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003ca title=\"Donate at opencollective.com\" href=\"https://opencollective.com/asterics-foundation/projects/asterics-grid\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS-Grid/raw/master/app/img/donate-open-collective.png\" width=300/\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n## Acknowledgements and Attribution\n\nAsTeRICS Grid was developed within several funded projects:\n* **2018-2019:** project [Toolbox for Rapid Design of Smart Homes and Assistive Technologies (ToRaDes)](https://embsys.technikum-wien.at/projects/torades/index.php) at the [UAS Technikum Wien](https://www.technikum-wien.at/), funded by the [City of Vienna](https://www.wien.gv.at/kontakte/ma23/index.html), Project 18-04\n* **2019-2023:** project [Knowledge Hub for Accessible Technologies (WBT)](https://embsys.technikum-wien.at/projects/khat/index.php) at the [UAS Technikum Wien](https://www.technikum-wien.at/), funded by the [City of Vienna](https://www.wien.gv.at/kontakte/ma23/index.html), Project 26-02\n* **2022-2025:** project [Inclusion International (In2)](https://www.technikum-wien.at/forschungsprojekte/inclusion-international/) at the [UAS Technikum Wien](https://www.technikum-wien.at/), funded by the [City of Vienna](https://www.wien.gv.at/kontakte/ma23/index.html), Project 33-02\n* **2024-2025:** [netidee project funding for AsTeRICS Grid](https://www.netidee.at/asterics-grid), Call 18\n* **2024-2028:** project [Inclusion via digital augmentative and alternative communication (InDiKo)](https://www.technikum-wien.at/forschungsprojekte/indiko/) at the [UAS Technikum Wien](https://www.technikum-wien.at/), funded by the [City of Vienna](https://www.wien.gv.at/kontakte/ma23/index.html), Project 38-09\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS-Grid/assets/2537025/290d809f-1ccf-4362-be68-f07ff0e21878\" width=\"400\"/\u003e\n\u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS-Grid/raw/master/app/img/netidee.svg\" width=\"250\"/\u003e\n\u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e\n\nOther people and organizations we want to thank:\n* Thanks to [ARASAAC](https://arasaac.org/) for collaborating and providing their pictogram API\n* Thanks to [crowdin.com](https://crowdin.com/project/asterics-grid) for providing a free open source license\n* Thanks to [browserstack.com](https://browserstack.com/) for providing us free UI tests on their platform.\n* Thanks to Alex Segler for the great Webradio API [radio-browser.info](http://www.radio-browser.info/) which makes it possible to search and play webradios within AsTeRICS Grid\n* Thanks to [podcastindex.org](https://podcastindex.org/) for a great global listing of podcasts and episodes\n* Thanks to the makers of the API from [opensymbols.org](https://www.opensymbols.org/) which makes it possible to search for open AAC symbols within AsTeRICS Grid\n* Thanks to ResponsiveVoice for providing an free non-commercial version, \u003ca href=\"https://responsivevoice.org\"\u003eResponsiveVoice-NonCommercial\u003c/a\u003e licensed under \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\"\u003e\u003cimg title=\"ResponsiveVoice Text To Speech\" src=\"https://responsivevoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/95x15.png\" alt=\"95x15\" width=\"95\" height=\"15\" /\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n* Thanks to [open-meteo.com](https://open-meteo.com/), which provides free weather data, which can be displayed within AsTeRICS Grid\n* Thanks to Titus Nemeth and Martin Tiefenthaler, who developed the [Prima school font](https://prima.wien/) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) on behalf of the [Wiener Bildungsserver](https://bildungsserver.wien/). The font is used in the app.\n* Thanks to Titus Nemeth and Martin Tiefenthaler, who created the [Prima font for schools](https://prima.wien/) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) which is used in the app\n* Thanks to all the developers of these projects, which are all used by AsTeRICS Grid in production:\n    * [couch-auth](https://github.com/perfood/couch-auth)\n    * [file-saver](https://www.npmjs.com/package/file-saver)\n    * [hls.js](https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js/)\n    * [html2canvas](https://github.com/niklasvh/html2canvas)\n    * [interactjs](https://interactjs.io/)\n    * [jspdf](https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF)\n    * [jszip](https://stuk.github.io/jszip/)\n    * [matrix-js-sdk](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk)\n    * [n-ary-huffman](https://github.com/lydell/n-ary-huffman)\n    * [navigo](https://github.com/krasimir/navigo)\n    * [n-ary-huffman](https://github.com/lydell/n-ary-huffman)\n    * [Object Model](https://objectmodel.js.org/)\n    * [PouchDB](https://pouchdb.com/)\n    * [predictionary](https://github.com/asterics/predictionary)\n    * [Stanford Javascript Crypto Library (SJCL)](https://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/)\n    * [superlogin-client](https://www.npmjs.com/package/superlogin-client)\n    * [Vue.js](https://vuejs.org/)\n    * [vue-i18n](https://vue-i18n.intlify.dev/)\n    * [vue-multiselect](https://vue-multiselect.js.org/)\n    * [Workbox](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/workbox)\n    * [Bootstrap](https://getbootstrap.com/)\n    * [fontawesome](https://fontawesome.com/)\n    * [dom-i18n](https://github.com/ruyadorno/dom-i18n)\n    * [jQuery](https://jquery.com/)\n    * [jQuery context menu](https://swisnl.github.io/jQuery-contextMenu/)\n    * [jQuery UI](https://jqueryui.com/)\n    * [loglevel](https://github.com/pimterry/loglevel)\n\n## License\n\nAsTeRICS Grid and its source code are licensed under the [AGPL-3.0](./LICENSE). 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