============== samsung_remote

A Samsung TV Remote Control Python Script

Description

samsung_remote is a script writen in Python that can remotely control your Samsung Smart TV thru wifi. It uses the great samsungctl <https://github.com/Ape/samsungctl>_ project to send the commands to TV and supports some nice features, such as:

• scan the network to find all available TV's;
• turn off all the TV's with one command;
• specify which TV to send commands;
• save common routines in a macro file to be executed latter. (video of a macro being executed: https://youtu.be/UXxBB7BOMDM)

Usage

usage: samsung_remote.py [-h] [-a | -i ip] [-k key] [-l] [-m ] [-p] [-q] [-s]

optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -a sends the command to the first TV available -i ip defines the ip of the TV that will receive the command -k key the key to be sent to TV -l use legacy method instead of default mode (websocket) -m the macro file with commands to be sent to TV -p search all TV's in the network and turn them off -q do not print messages to console -s scans the network and print all the TV's found

Dependecies

• Python 3
• samsungctl <https://github.com/Ape/samsungctl>_
• websocket-client

you can install the dependencies running:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

References

• SSDP discovery https://gist.github.com/dankrause/6000248 and http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=7878.15
• Regular expression to get the XML namespace https://stackoverflow.com/a/12946675/2383657
• Correctly parse XML with namespaces https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/51132