[How-To] Remote Control Signal Over Lan?

[alkino]

Hi,

I was thinking It would be great if we can send the tv remote control signal over the LAN, so every application on the LAN can connect to the tv and be controlled by a single remote control.

If you are familiar with the lirc remote control, you probably know that it open a listening socket so other application connect to it and you know the rest of story.

Thanks

Added 13.01.2011
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Remote LAN Control - Desktop app

[marcelru]

Hi alkino,

I quite agree to this. It also would be nice to have LAN remote control the other way round, so I don't have to yell at my kids to lower the TV volume while I'm working, but do it myself with mouse and/or keyboard. (switching the set off already works, just kill exeDSP in a telnet session, they still don't know how I do it )

marcelr

[meinsource]

It also would be nice to have LAN remote control the other way round, so I don't have to yell at my kids to lower the TV volume while I'm working, but do it myself with mouse and/or keyboard.

This works for volume (and Mute) already today for my LExxB650 using the UPnP interface to remotely control the TV. A few other controls are available too via UPnP (e.g. brightness) but not too many
I did not figure out if and how to change channel via UPnP.
I'd very much want to remotely control via LAN everything whats available via IR remote control and more.
For example I want to push one button to start my favorite news on TV and dimm the lights and activate the phone answering machine and more with this single push button. This button might be one on the wall or one on my PC desktop screen - both connected to a FritzBox router that connects to TV, lights, answering machine and much more.

Regards - this is one of the reason I'm here

[a-o]

Hello,

maybe you want to have a look into this thread. Short summary:
Try to use UPnP-Inspector to access your TV. For the remote control it is possible to retrieve status messages, e.g. GetMute, GetVolume and even manipulate them (SetVolume).
There are two TV services Mediarenderer and Personalmessagereceiver.
Basic TV settings such as volume, brightness, contrast, sharpness and color temperature could be changed.

[nbd]

Hello, I have UE40B7070, but I'm not able to control it with UPnP. DLNA works (Mediatomb from my Linux box) so some UPnP traffic is definitely working. What UPnP browser you were using?
I tried also the TV's http server, but got no pages with any information. Where are the httpd docs in the TV?

Well, I think I have so many questions, it seems that I have to enable the telnet and start fiddling around..

[nbd]

Hello, I've managed to make one USB IR device to work with my TV (UE40B7070), also compiled Lirc, so now the topic question gets an answer: yes, it should be possible. Although I don't know whether the Lirc can set up a port for clients to connect without firmware modification. My setup didn't need any fw mods, luckily the Iguana IR is designed to work without kernel drivers and lirc compiled against the Sammy's kernel kindly told me that it does not need kernel drivers at all.

I'm not (yet) familiar with how the lirc works over network, but I could give it a shot someday. I'll report here what is the result.

[nbd]

Yes I was able to connect from my Linux box to lircd running on my TV.

[erdem_ua]

Can you "inject" remote commands to TV? Can I switch channels from network?

[nbd]

I guess that is possible. Still not a lirc expert, but I think the lircd can listen to network port for commands, as well as it can send commands to network port:

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    -l --listen[=[address:]port]   listen for network connections
    -c --connect=host[:port]   connect to remote lircd server


[modemode]

So you got LIRC running on the TV and you can control the TV with lirc? How that? How does LIRC the TV says what to do?

Please upload your compiled LIRC Version. I want to do some trys controlling the TV via LAN.

Regards

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