Experimental Widget Installer (winstall) for Samsung H Series – Feedback Welcome

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Experimental Widget Installer (winstall) for Samsung H Series – Feedback Welcome

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Hello everyone,

I've been working on a small experimental command-line utility called winstall for Samsung H-series TVs with root access.

Current features:

Installs a widget package from a ZIP archive.
Extracts it into the user widget directory.
Optional automatic deletion of the ZIP package after a successful installation (--ad).
Verbose mode (--verbose).
Lists detected installed widgets after installation.
Displays a completion message reminding the user that a TV reboot is currently required before the widget appears.

Example:

winstall -wp /dtv/usb/sda1/Widgets/MyWidget.zip --verbose --ad

At the moment, the only limitation is that the TV must be rebooted before the newly installed widget becomes visible. The installer itself works correctly, but I would like to eliminate the reboot requirement.

Does anyone know if there is a process, service, or API on Samsung H-series firmware that refreshes the widget database or reloads the widget list without a full reboot?

Any suggestions or information about the widget manager, Smart Hub refresh mechanism, or related binaries would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you :mrgreen:
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