Roku legacy products

[t_james]

I realise this is out of season but I couldn't find the guide online to display Merry Christmas when looking last Christmas as the original Roku forum is long gone. Luckily once back home I discovered I had kept the instructions from 2009 so here is the original post from back then for anyone interested.

After just finding out I will exceed the 20,000 character limit I am going to paste the commands in a reply so it will fit in one post.

Hope it displays properly with all the line feeds intact including the last line. Tony.

Start of original post with guide :

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Let your SoundBridge Radio display Merry Christmas
by Burkhardi » Sat Dec 12, 2009 10:08 am

This was from a couple years ago, but is still too cool!
Here is the orginal post
http://forums.rokulabs.com/viewtopic.ph ... =christmas

On a Windows XP system, click "start", then "Run" and type telnet and the url of your R1000 followed with 4444 (i.e. "telnet 192.168.1.102 4444"). this should open a telnet session connected to your R1000. Then cut and paste the stuff below (yes, its very long) and hit enter and enjoy...
(you must keep the telnet window open, but you can minimize it)

Works with the R1000 Soundbridge Radio and M1001HR (UK Hi-Res unit). It will display on a M1000, M2000, M500 and M1001, but the bottom line will be missing since the displays for those has less vertical lines.
So cut and paste this...

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Update : oops, looks like I can't make long posts and can't delete the post either so will try again later if it's only because I am new here. Sorry.

[AvsGunnar]

@t_james 

You can always try creating an image file that has the text printed on it and then uploading the image.

That at least provides the text.

Otherwise, you can try using the "Insert/Edit  Code Sample" option from above in the formatting. (may have to expand toolbar to see it).

[t_james]

Thanks for your suggestion. I just tried the Insert Code option, even breaking it into 2 parts so it was well under 20,000 characters but after initially saying "Success!" to my post, it disappears when returning to the thread. I guess it is just too long. Oh well....

[cfourrou]

I'm disappointed. Is there any where else you can drop it? github maybe?

related sidenote: back in the day, I wrote a VB program that used a US Robotics modem with a land line to display Caller ID on the SoundBridge. ran it for years. until the landline went the way of the Dodo bird.

but it used the same technique. more recently I did something in python. looked like this

def displayRoku(item):
    try:
        with Telnet('192.168.88.88',4444) as tn:
            tn.read_until(b"SoundBridge>")
           #print(tn.read_all().decode('ascii'))
           tn.write(b"sketch\n")
           tn.write(b"font 10\n")
           tn.write(bytes('marquee "{}"\n'.format(item),encoding='utf8'))
           tn.write(b'quit\n')
           except Exception as e:
           log("Roku Error {}".format(e))
    except Exception as e:
        log("Roku Error {}".format(e))

oh, it worked! someone's getting a kudos