Roku "my home" channel?

SmartApps & Automations Automation Ideas
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What if we could meld SmartTiles and Roku - so you could see/control things using your tv remote?

I’ve poked around a bit at the Roku SDK, it looks somewhat icky but not impossible. Anyone interested in poking around this area?

2

I would love this idea! That said, I’m not a developer, but I’d be happy to help as a beta tester.

3

I haven’t seen anyone make a web browser in roku. I’m sure if it were possible someone would have by now. I think roku is getting closer to something like that though.

4

@schettj I actually started building this probably close to a year ago but other things came up. I didn’t get very far but I will dig back and see what code i still have.

@keithcroshaw So actually there is a mythical web browser for the roku called oversight. If you look hard you can find it in a few places on the web. You have to put your unit in developer mode to get it installed. Its what i was basing my code on. I will see what i can track down…

5

Seems like too much work for me. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

I’ll stick to my iPad.

6

Nice. I was thinking more along the lines of how the “plex” channel works - you get very nice icons for series and shows, with descriptive text - seems like you could generate a Roku interface for the Dashboard so you can navigate by capability, or “recent activity” or any number of interesting things… and drill down to choosing phrases, modes, on/off control, etc…

It would be non-trivial, but probably cool.

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hi Schttj

I built a Roku manager and monitor for SmartThings my daughter this weekend, are you still interested in this if so I can share the code.

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Hi guys

I have uploaded the code for use.

9

Thank you for this awesome integration. I’ve found out that I can send keys PowerOn and PowerOff to control my Roku TV so I have modified your code to work with it. I’m also thinking on adding all keys to the DTH so it can be used as a keyboard. Would you like me to make pull requests to your code or may I publish that myself (with credits to you)?

Thank you again, it works with my Roku TV - I actually started implementing it, when I found yours. I was about 10% done at that point, but I then went on with your code.

10

Hi ady624

Awsome, glad it was useful.

Please send a pull request as I would love to have your mods as well.

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Hi Ady624

Any chance I can get your code?

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Oh sorry,forgot about it. There were other things I wanted to do but never finished. Like sync with the TV should it get a new IP…

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Hi ady624

The IP address change is already managed by the Roku Manager app (I think I scheduled it for every 5 minutes) as it scans using SSDP and then adds or updates the devices details including IP address.

14

Cool, not sure if my version does it, so it’s definitely got to be a pull request :smiley:

15

Actually, this is the change I made:

Replaced this:

//-------------- Switch Commands --------------//
        def on() {
            sendEvent(name: "switch", value: "on")      
        }
        def off() {
            sendEvent(name: "switch", value: "off")
        }
//^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Switch Commands ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^//

with this:

//-------------- Switch Commands --------------//
def on() {
    rokuKeyPressAppAction("PowerOn")
    refresh()
}

def off() {
    rokuKeyPressAppAction("PowerOff")
    refresh()
}
//^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Switch Commands ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^//
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Awsome, I will implement it

17

First, thanks for this app / dh.

I wanted to use the my Rokus as part of automation in CoRE. Specifically I wanted to know if the device was in an app or at the screensaver / home. I noticed that the devices didn’t update when changing state (I realize the roku won’t send you status unless you ask for it.). So I made the connect app refresh the devices on a schedule.

Code for SmartApp

def initialize() {
	unsubscribe()
	unschedule()
	
    state.subscribe = false
	
	if (selectedDevices) {
		addDevices()
	}
    
    refreshDevices()

	runEvery5Minutes("ssdpDiscover")
    runEvery10Minutes(refreshDevices) //<--- Added this
}

def refreshDevices() { //<-- Added this whole method
	log.debug "Refreshing Rokus..."
    getChildDevices().each { it->
    	log.debug "Refreshing ${it.currentValue('userdevicename')}."
        it.refresh()
    }
    log.debug "Refreshing Rokus Complete."
}

attribute "userdevicename", "String" //<--Added this attribute

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Hi @MadMouse, are you still around, I’m thinking of building an app to provide Alexa control to Roku, main thing I think I’ll need is a way to translate the installed apps and IDs in the Roku in to a map… if you are able to let me know how to extract this from the XML then I think I can do the rest… if not then I’m sure I could work it out, just might save me a few hours! :wink:

20

Having done a little bit of reading, it looks like it could be much simpler than I thought… just need to write it now…

21

Hello there…
can somebody explain what are the capabilities of this? is it only for monitoring what is being watched in the roku or this will let us control the roku from our smartthings? thanks