[mythtv-users] MythTV box setting its input source on a Samsung TV over IP

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 19 May 2021 17:41:56 +0100, you wrote:

>Has anyone here tried using the Samsung IP interface to control their
>Samsung TV over the network?
>
>My MythTV hardware doesn't support CEC but I'd quite like to be able to
>turn the TV on and set it to the correct input for MythTV using my MythTV
>remote - I don't want to have to pick up two remotes.
>
>I know I could use a programmable or a 4-in-1 universal remote.  I have an
>old Harmony (525) but I don't really get on with it. It chews through
>batteries and uses soft-keys on a small LCD screen which I can't read very
>well.  So I use an old Media Centre Edition remote which I've got to quite
>like and I'd rather not buy another for what is really just a 'nice to
>have' feature.
>
>I've learned how to bind remote key presses to scripts on my MythTV box and
>I can turn the Television on by pressing a button which triggers a script
>to send the TV a Wake-on-LAN packet.
>
>The problem comes in setting the TV to the HDMI1 input.  It can't be done
>directly using the original Samsung remote.  You have to press the 'Source'
>key and then use the arrow keys to navigate around an array of buttons
>representing the various input sources. Samsung make this harder by
>re-arranging the buttons each time depending on history.
>
>However it can be done directly using my Harmony remote.  There are HDMI1,
>HDMI2 etc soft keys on the little LCD which take the TV directly to the
>specified input source.  So I was hopeful that I'd be able to do the same
>thing using the IP interface.  I've installed the python based samsungctl
>application on my MythTV box and got it working.  I can send KEY_VOLUP to
>turn the volume up, and KEY_SOURCE to bring up the array of source buttons
>on the TV and lots of other fun stuff.
>
>Sadly though, the key commands KEY_HDMI1, KEY_HDMI2 which are listed in the
>documentation don't seem to do anything.  I can send KEY_HDMI, which steps
>around the available HDMI ports and I guess I should be happy with that,
>but I just believe Samsung must have provided an HDMIn command, if only I
>knew what it was.
>
>Any ideas?

If the Harmony can do it, it may be that the code it sends via IR will
also work over the IP interface.  So is it possible to get the source
code of the table the Harmony uses for your TV?

It would also be worth contacting Samsung tech support to see if they
can help.