I noticed that a few other TV’s that use the Smart Alliance TV SDK are supported, and was hoping it might be easy to add a Toshiba smart tv as well. When I search UPNP devices on my Android’s test app, it shows the TV on there. It allows already for it to be turned on, off, volume changed, and content changed as well because it is shown as a ‘UpNp renderer’.
Think this could be easy since other smart tv brands exist?
Anyone have any luck controlling their Toshiba yet?
Bit of an old thread I know but looking to do something similar. Have figured out that the TV has a rest APi aviable at you-tvs-ip:56789/apps/SmartCenter but as I know next to nothing when it comes to coding I’ll be of little help.
Have seen a few places around the web that you can send commands such as
curl “http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:56789/apps/SmartCenter”
-X POST
-d “<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?><key code=“1013”/>”
which should mute the TV but I get nothing but at least it’s somewhere to start after months of trying to find a solutions (even looked into flashing android TV frimware on the TV but didn’t get very far with that)
I managed to find most of this from this thread here:
Toshiba/Medion/Telefunken TV Control Script Ver 0.1 - Domoticz
If anyone has any luck would be really interested in how they did it
With a bit more investigation found that the TV uses the DIAL Protocol.
more info here
and
Thought I’d do a bit more exploration today. Please bare in mind that I am still learning but have managed to mute and unmute the TV by sending the command bellow:
curl "http://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:56789/apps/SmartCenter" -X POST -d "<remote><key code=1013/></remote>"
a step in the right direction i suppose. How I would go about getting this into a plugin or integration I have no clue
A few more bits I’ve figured out from the script in the link above and some trial and error
| Function | Code |
|---|---|
| 0 | 1000 |
| 1 | 1001 |
| 2 | 1002 |
| 3 | 1003 |
| 4 | 1004 |
| 5 | 1005 |
| 6 | 1006 |
| 7 | 1007 |
| 8 | 1008 |
| 9 | 1009 |
| back | 1010 |
| ratio | 1011 |
| on | 1012 |
| mute | 1013 |
| presets | 1014 |
| lang | 1015 |
| Vol up | 1016 |
| Vol Down | 1017 |
| info | 1018 |
| down | 1019 |
| up | 1020 |
| left | 1021 |
| right | 1022 |
| Stop | 1024 |
| Play | 1025 |
| rewind | 1027 |
| Forward | 1028 |
| ??? | 1029 |
| ??? | 1030 |
| sub | 1031 |
| prog up | 1032 |
| Prog Down | 1033 |
| Swap | 1034 |
| Audio (stero Dual mono) | 1035 |
| ??? | 1036 |
| close | 1037 |
| ??? | 1038 |
| ??? | 1039 |
| fav | 1040 |
| ??? | 1041 |
| timer | 1042 |
| quick | 1043 |
| ??? | 1044 |
| Channel | 1045 |
| web | 1046 |
| epg | 1047 |
| menu | 1048 |
| pause | 1049 |
| yellow | 1050 |
| rec | 1051 |
| blue | 1052 |
| ok | 1053 |
| green | 1054 |
| red | 1055 |
| input | 1056 |
| media | 1057 |
| USB | 1059 |
| teletext | 1060 |
| ??? | 1061 |
| YouTube | 1062 |
| FreeView Play | 1063 |
| Netflix | 1064 |
| internet | 1065 |
| ??? | 1066 |
| system menu | 1067 |
This is great work buddy!
Is there anything to return the state of the TV? Im about to take a look into this further…
To call this in AA though you need to add it as a shell command, then you can call it from an HA script:
shell_command:
annexe_tv: curl "http://192.168.0.21:56789/apps/SmartCenter" -X POST -d "<remote><key code=1012/></remote>"
Then all you need to do in HA is create a script and select the name you used above.
Returning the state would be epic…
I downloaded the apk file of the Toshiba TV Smart Center app and then used a java decompiler to be able to sift through the files to try to figure some things out. I found the full list of built in codes:
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_HOME, "1046");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_POWER, "1012");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_POWER_NAV, "1012");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_POWER_PLAYER, "1012");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_POWER_PVM, "1012");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_POWER_GES_NAV, "1012");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_POWER_GES_PLAYER, "1012");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_POWER_GES_PVM, "1012");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_RECORD, "1051");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_PLAY, "1025");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_PAUSE, "1049");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_STOP, "1024");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_PREVIOUS, "1034");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_REWIND, "1027");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_FORWARD, "1028");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_NEXT, "1255");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_SCREEN, "1011");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_LANG, "1015");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_SUBTITLE, "1031");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_PRESETS, "1014");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_EPG, "1047");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_TEXT, "1255");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_FAV, "1040");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_3D, "1040");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_SLEEP, "1042");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_0, "1000");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_1, "1001");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_2, "1002");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_3, "1003");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_4, "1004");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_5, "1005");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_6, "1006");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_7, "1007");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_8, "1008");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_9, "1009");
map.put("48", "48");
map.put("49", "49");
map.put("50", "50");
map.put("51", "51");
map.put("52", "52");
map.put("53", "53");
map.put("54", "54");
map.put("55", "55");
map.put("56", "56");
map.put("57", "57");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_MENU, "1048");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_MUTE, "1013");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_UP, "1020");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_LEFT, "1021");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_OK, "1053");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_RIGHT, "1022");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_DOWN, "1019");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_VOL_UP, "1016");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_VOL_DOWN, "1017");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_VOL_UP_2, "1016");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_VOL_DOWN_2, "1017");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_PROG_UP, "1032");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_PROG_DOWN, "1033");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_BACK, "1010");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_EXIT, "1037");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_RED, "1055");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_GREEN, "1054");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_YELLOW, "1050");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_BLUE, "1052");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_INFO, "1018");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_MMEDIA, "1057");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_SOURCE, "1056");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_SWAP, "1034");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_CHAN, "1045");
map.put("BUTTON_TV", "1030");
map.put("BUTTON_MY_BUTTON", "1062");
map.put("BUTTON_MY_BUTTON_2", "1063");
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_QMENU, "1043");
map.put(RemoteCommand.KEYBOARD_BACKSPACE, "8");
map.put("KEYBOARD_NEW_LINE", "10");
I’m too lazy to sort through that to make that look nicer, but I think it should be helpful. I started on this quest because I would like to launch Plex with a curl command, but am not having any luck. I would also like to have feedback if possible so if anyone else has any further insight, I would truly appreciate it.
I went through and cleaned up my last comment and combined it with the previous collection of codes. It didn’t really provide much extra information, but hey, maybe it will help someone. There were several codes that were in the app that don’t appear to do anything that I’ve listed at the bottom.
| Key | Code |
|---|---|
| 0 | 1000 |
| 1 | 1001 |
| 2 | 1002 |
| 3 | 1003 |
| 4 | 1004 |
| 5 | 1005 |
| 6 | 1006 |
| 7 | 1007 |
| 8 | 1008 |
| 9 | 1009 |
| back | 1010 |
| ratio | 1011 |
| on | 1012 |
| mute | 1013 |
| presets | 1014 |
| lang | 1015 |
| Vol up | 1016 |
| Vol Down | 1017 |
| info | 1018 |
| down | 1019 |
| up | 1020 |
| left | 1021 |
| right | 1022 |
| - | 1023 |
| Stop | 1024 |
| Play | 1025 |
| - | 1026 |
| rewind | 1027 |
| Forward | 1028 |
| - | 1029 |
| - | 1030 |
| sub | 1031 |
| prog up | 1032 |
| Prog Down | 1033 |
| Swap/Previous | 1034 |
| Audio (stero Dual mono) | 1035 |
| - | 1036 |
| close | 1037 |
| - | 1038 |
| - | 1039 |
| fav/3D | 1040 |
| - | 1041 |
| timer | 1042 |
| quick menu | 1043 |
| - | 1044 |
| Channel | 1045 |
| web/home | 1046 |
| epg | 1047 |
| menu | 1048 |
| pause | 1049 |
| yellow | 1050 |
| rec | 1051 |
| blue | 1052 |
| ok | 1053 |
| green | 1054 |
| red | 1055 |
| input | 1056 |
| media | 1057 |
| - | 1058 |
| USB | 1059 |
| teletext | 1060 |
| - | 1061 |
| YouTube/My Button 1 | 1062 |
| FreeView Play/ My Button 2 | 1063 |
| Netflix | 1064 |
| internet | 1065 |
| ??? | 1066 |
| system menu | 1067 |
| - | 1068 |
| - | 1069 |
| - | 1070 |
| remote pop up | 1071 |
| remote pop up | 1072 |
| Rakuten TV | 1073 |
map.put(RemoteCommand.KEYBOARD_BACKSPACE, “8”);
map.put(“KEYBOARD_NEW_LINE”, “10”);
map.put(“48”, “48”);
map.put(“49”, “49”);
map.put(“50”, “50”);
map.put(“51”, “51”);
map.put(“52”, “52”);
map.put(“53”, “53”);
map.put(“54”, “54”);
map.put(“55”, “55”);
map.put(“56”, “56”);
map.put(“57”, “57”);
map.put(“BUTTON_TV”, “1030”);
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_NEXT, “1255”);
map.put(RemoteCommand.BUTTON_TEXT, “1255”);
Still not much luck on the feed back from the TV to Home Assistant front though. Lots of 403 forbidden errors so if anyone has any thoughts on how you can use the pairing process with the Toshiba TV Smart Center app to get credentials or how to find these credentials, I think that’s where I’m stuck.
If you use this command (replace the IP with your tv’s IP):
curl "http://192.168.1.10:56789/apps/SmartCenter"
You’ll get an output that looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<service xmlns="urn:dial-multiscreen-org:schemas:dial"
dialVer="2.2">
<name>SmartCenter</name>
<options allowStop="false"/>
<state>running</state>
<link rel="run" href="run"/>
<additionalData>
</additionalData>
</service>
Which you can parse in Home Assistant. “Running” means that the tv is on. If the TV is off, this command will fail and you get no feedback. So maybe turn the tv on with an IR blaster command and then verify that it turned on using this information. Alternatively, you can parse it with this command:
curl -s "http://192.168.1.10:56789/apps/SmartCenter" | grep -oPm1 "(?<=<state>)[^<]+"
This should simply output ‘running’ if the tv is on. I also go tired of copying, pasting, and changing the code to change the different keys so I used this code where you can enter a number to change the code to that number, n to increment the code by one, or q to quit the command (again, change the IP to your TVs IP):
TV_IP="192.168.1.10"
ENDPOINT="http://$TV_IP:56789/apps/SmartCenter"
# Starting key code
CODE=1000
echo "Interactive key code tester for SmartCenter"
echo "-------------------------------------------"
echo "Press Enter to repeat the current code."
echo "Press n + Enter to go to the next code."
echo "Type a number + Enter to change the next code."
echo "Press q + Enter to quit."
while true; do
read -p "Press a key or enter a number: " INPUT
if [[ "$INPUT" == "q" ]]; then
echo "Exiting..."
break
elif [[ "$INPUT" == "n" ]]; then
CODE=$((CODE + 1))
echo "Moving to next code: $CODE..."
elif [[ "$INPUT" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
CODE=$INPUT
echo "Changing code to: $CODE..."
else
echo "Repeating code $CODE..."
fi
curl -s -X POST "$ENDPOINT" -d "<remote><key code=$CODE/></remote>"
done
On my tv in the built in manual I did find that my tv uses the HbbTV ver 2.0.2. standard. There’s probably some useful tidbits in their information, but it’s a 300+ page document of pretty dense info so I don’t know that I’ll get anything out of it.
Hopefully this will help someone and maybe one day we’ll figure out the full functionality that we’re going for.