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 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 <file>] [-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 <file>	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
• 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