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jasmines
Asked: 2019-05-30 04:49:51 +0800 CST

GUI application for controlling Samsung Smart TV connected to the same LAN of ubuntu desktop

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I noted that there are no questions about this, and it's sounding very strange. Anyway, I know the gemote project has been abandoned, so I'm wondering if anything similar has been developed. In brief, I would like to have a remote controller app in my Ubuntu PC to control my Samsung Smart TV connected to the same local network.

software-recommendation remote samsung smart-tv

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  1. You can use YAD to create GUI front end to CLI commands.

    As a comment points out there is a CLI controller for the Samsung Smart TV:

    You just need to install Yad with sudo apt install yad and create a GUI window like this:

    yad remote control

    Using this command:

    yad --title "Remote Control" --text "Samsung Smart TV" --width 250 --height 400 --form --columns 2 --field "Power:FBTN"  --field "Vol +:FBTN" --field "Vol -:FBTN" --field "Input:FBTN"  --field "Chan +:FBTN" --field "Chan -:FBTN"

    Additional code is required to link each button to the Samsung Control program:

    samsungctl --host <host> [options] <key> [key ...]

    If I had a Samsung Smart TV I would enjoy writing the full script. However my Smart TVs are Sony and Toshiba. I will try to write a remote control GUI script soon for those TVs.

    Seeing it in action

    I created a little demo where instead of calling the Samsung Smart TV commands are echoed to the screen.

    yad TV remote controller.gif

    The one-liner code is a little longer now:

    yad --title "Remote Control" --text "Samsung Smart TV" --width 250 --height 400 --form --columns 2 --field "Power:FBTN" 'bash -c "echo Power"'  --field "Vol +:FBTN" 'bash -c "echo Volume Up"' --field "Vol -":FBTN 'bash -c "echo Volume Down"' --field "Input:FBTN" "bash -c 'echo "Input"'"  --field "Chan +:FBTN" 'echo "Channel up"' --field "Chan -:FBTN" 'bash -c "echo Channel Down"'

    As mentioned in comments if you have a Samsung TV newer than 2016 you will also need to download the websocket-client

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