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Frustratingly I do want some of the functionality that comes with connecting my TV to the network - specifically the ability to control things like turning it o
by jon-wood 4mo ago
Frustratingly I do want some of the functionality that comes with connecting my TV to the network - specifically the ability to control things like turning it on and choosing which input its set to via an API it exposes. That's manageable by putting it on a VLAN which isn't allowed access to the outside world, but its also really annoying to me that I have to do that.
- asdff 4mo agoYou don't need an api for that. You can do that with a 30 year old CRT if you wanted. Copy IR signals from remote. Put IR blaster in front of IR receiver. Make whatever tool you want to control the IR blaster. Done.
- jon-wood 4mo agoYes. I could do that. I could also hook something up to the debug serial port and reverse engineer that, or use HDMI-CEC, or make a tiny robot that pushes the buttons on the back of the TV. I'm using the API though, because I already have a Home Assistant server on my network and that can communicate with the API without me having to faff about making tiny robots.