iSamsungTV: Remote Command Line Interface

Introduction

iSamsungTV is an interface to the Samsung TV series C, D, E and F and Blue Ray Disc Players with Smart Hub feature. It uses the network capabilities of the TV to mimic the remote and send notification messages to the big screen!?

Please post any working model in the issues

It features!

• Used for bridging and scripting in smarthome controller software !
• Command Line
• Popup messages! (C & D only)
• Youtube Search (? don't think we need it, but ok :-)

What it can't do?

• Read the current TV source
• Read the current Volume
• Get the TV out of Stand-by (possible with CEC)

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Download

You can download a precompiled binary for macOS or the Raspberry Pi using a terminal

MacOS

curl -L https://github.com/Tristan79/iSamsungTV/raw/master/macOS/iSamsungTV > iSamsungTV
chmod +x iSamsungTV
mv iSamsungTV /usr/local/bin/

Raspberry Pi

wget https://github.com/Tristan79/iSamsungTV/raw/master/pi/iSamsungTV
chmod +x iSamsungTV
mv iSamsungTV /usr/local/bin/

Source

You can download and unpack the source or download it from github using Github Desktop or manually with git clone https://github.com/Tristan79/iSamsungTV.git and run make inside the iSamsungTV folder to compile it and mv iSamsungTV /usr/local/bin/ it to the right location.

Usage

Usage: iSamsungTV (SERIE) IP -COMMAND

Argument: SERIE

  The TV model series C, D, E or F are available.
  If SERIES is ommited, it assumes a series C or D model TV or Blue Ray Disc Players

Argument: COMMAND

  The following commands are available KEY, TEXT, CALL, SMS or SCHEDULE

COMMAND: KEY

Usage:   iSamsungTV (SERIE) IP -KEY KEY
Example: iSamsungTV E 10.0.0.13 -KEY KEY_VOLUP
         (Simulates Volume Up remote button press on series E TV located on the network on ip 10.0.0.13)

Keys

To get a list of usable keys, run iSamsungTV keys

COMMAND: TEXT

Usage:   iSamsungTV (SERIE) IP -TEXT TEXT
Example: iSamsungTV D 10.0.0.11 -TEXT "Colour Haze"
         (Sends text to YouTube... on a series D TV)

COMMAND: CALL

Usage:   iSamsungTV (SERIE) IP -CALL DATE TIME FROM NUMBER TO NUMBER
Example: iSamsungTV 10.0.0.11 -CALL 2013-6-24 23:06:01 Cris +555-4323 "" ""
         (Show incomming call, skips input with empty strings)

COMMAND: SMS

Usage:   iSamsungTV (SERIE) IP -SMS DATE TIME FROM NUMBER TO NUMBER MESSAGE
Example: iSamsungTV 10.0.0.13 -SMS 2013-6-24 "7:01:01 PM" Cris +555-4323 Me +555-2343 "Get Off The Couch!?"
         (Show incomming SMS)

COMMAND: SCHEDULE

Usage:   iSamsungTV (SERIE) IP -SCHEDULE SUBJECT STARTDATE STARTTIME ENDDATE ENDTIME LOCATION OWNER NUMBER MESSAGE

iSamsungTVPopup.sh

It lets you send notification popup messages to your screen (D & E only).

iSamsungTVPopup.sh 10.0.0.2 "Pop says the message on the big screen!" 

...using the sms function with a little bit of extra scripting...

Development

Found interesting links about SOAP and DLNA... Reading the TV settings!? Link Link Link

SOAP

I found some other SOAP stuff which I have not tried yet... and there is probably others where you can read the Source input and the Volume Level... its up to you to expand this!

/* Future!!!! GetVolume/GetMute... && Trying to Play a avi.... 
POST /upnp/control/RenderingControl1 HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.10:52235
SOAPAction: "urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1#SetMute"
Accept-Language: LC-ctypes=en-us;q=1, LC-ctype=en;q=0.5
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 335
 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<s:Body><u:SetMute xmlns:u="urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1">
<InstanceID>0</InstanceID>
<Channel>Master</Channel>
<DesiredMute>0</DesiredMute></u:SetMute>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
 
POST /upnp/control/AVTransport1 HTTP/1.1
SOAPACTION: urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:AVTransport:1#SetAVTransportURI
Connection: close
Content-Length: 619
Content-Type: text/xml
Host: 192.168.1.51:52235
User-Agent: HttpSamyGO/1.1
 
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='no' ?><s:Envelope s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><s:Body><u:SetAVTransportURI xmlns:u="urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:AVTransport:1"><InstanceID>0</InstanceID><CurrentURI>http://75.101.165.227:8080/app/iLJy+VD9xyYqv5jtERGBijAeiqUmYWqCFzy4Li6gM0uMzI8pYoRWTxqp+UxEy14ibHGOrLpqJTkjI+WE6Q6lbQ6e2+1X96ToH8lGCv0f4f88M0jxU6S6z4SwC8KOCoMhscRxjOiy4CJVzNNeCGQxpw==.mp4</CurrentURI><CurrentURIMetaData>&lt;DIDL-Lite&gt;&lt;/DIDL-Lite&gt;</CurrentURIMetaData></u:SetAVTransportURI></s:Body></s:Envelope>
 
*/

Versions

• v0.00 Brainstorm!
• v0.01 Samygo & Remote
• v0.02 Domoticz & SOAP
• v1.03 Push The Button, Sweet (github publish release)
• v1.04 Added support E & F series

License

Copyright (c) 2016, Tristan Crispijn All rights reserved.

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