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bryanharley
Visitor
11 years ago

PHP cURL script to control Roku box not working

I was reading here about the RESTful service accessed via the http protocol on port 8060. They provide command line curl examples, like: $ curl -d '' http://192.168.1.134:8060/keypress/home I ...
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EnTerr
Roku Guru
11 years ago
I am not a PHP witch doctor 😛 but seems to me would be good to put all that stuff from curl_init to curl_close in a procedure/function and then call it repeatedly something like 
post_roku_cmd('192.168.1.130', '/keypress/home')
post_roku_cmd('192.168.1.130', '/launch/20802_6415')

And you don't need to hit Home before launching a channel (except maybe with screen saver, dont remember). Btw, if this is to be invoked from browser, best will be to so that without a server and server-side scripting - see how remoku.tv does it. Opening public port to home Roku is not something i'd recommend.