Roku control via netcat
I'm in the process of setting up a bunch of roku's and I want to write a batch file for windows that will automatically make a stack of roku's run a specific channel. From a mac I can run this comm...
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The problem is trying to get those CR/LFs into an echo command. I tried a few things without much luck. The easiest thing to do is to put the POST into a text file and then redirect it into netcat. The text file would look like:
If you work from the command line in Windows a lot you may want to do yourself a favor and look into Take Command. The free light version, TCC/LE, is probably all you'd ever need and is a vast improvement over cmd.exe.
With TCC/LE the command would look like:
Hope this helps!
-JT
POST /launch/dev HTTP/1.1Note that there is a blank line after the POST line. Then you redirect that file (I called it launch.txt) into netcat:
nc 192.168.0.71 8060 < launch.txt
If you work from the command line in Windows a lot you may want to do yourself a favor and look into Take Command. The free light version, TCC/LE, is probably all you'd ever need and is a vast improvement over cmd.exe.
With TCC/LE the command would look like:
echo POST /launch/dev HTTP/1.1%=r%=n | nc 192.168.0.71 8060
Hope this helps!
-JT
