Smartthigs CLI to switch channel

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I am trying to call smartthings CLI to switch channel. I believe I followed the example well.

smartthings devices:commands XXXXX 'tvChannel:setTvChannel(1)'

But this returns this error.

AxiosError: Request failed with status code 422:
{“requestId”:“2260968512939144970”,“error”:{“code”:“ConstraintViolationError”,“message”:“The request is
malformed.”,“details”:[{“code”:“UnprocessableEntityError”,“target”:“commands[0].arguments[0]”,“message”:“commands[0].arguments[0]:
integer found, string expected”,“details”:}]}}
Code: ERR_BAD_REQUEST

I believe I followed the example well described here (GitHub - SmartThingsCommunity/smartthings-cli: Command-line Interface for the SmartThings APIs.).

 # capability and command with an argument (note: single quote command arg to prevent specific shell parsing errors)

    $ smartthings devices:commands 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 'switchLevel:setLevel(50)'

Please let me know what is the write format to call this CLI with arguent.

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In the example you followed, the argument to setLevel is an integer. For the setTvChannel, the argument is a string and must be quoted.

1  setLevel(level<integer>, [rate<integer>]) 

2  setTvChannel(tvChannel<string>)  

bep@debian12:~$ smartthings devices:commands xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx 'tvChannel:setTvChannel("20")'
Command executed successfully
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Thank you so much. It works!

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