Roku and TV Power

[roberthleeii]

Does the Roku NS have the ability to send the power off command to the roku and tv? 

I have my Rokus connected to my Alexa and if I tell Alexa to turn off the a roku it will turn off the TV. I cant find this command in the NS or the Roku app. 

[lilyoyo1]

2 hours ago, roberthleeii said:

Does the Roku NS have the ability to send the power off command to the roku and tv? 

I have my Rokus connected to my Alexa and if I tell Alexa to turn off the a roku it will turn off the TV. I cant find this command in the NS or the Roku app. 

Don't you already have a post open for this answered? If their own app doesn't support it then i doubt it exists in the api for the developer to add it. Most likely it's turning off using hdmi-CEC

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[bpwwer]

Unless it's a Roku TV, no.  the node server only controls Roku devices.

[roberthleeii]

5 hours ago, lilyoyo1 said:

Don't you already have a post open for this answered? If their own app doesn't support it then i doubt it exists in the api for the developer to add it. Most likely it's turning off using hdmi-CEC

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Not exactly. I have a post about ways to controlling TVs. This is more specific. Tring to figure out if the node server can duplicate what Alexa was able to do with the HDMI-CEC.

[roberthleeii]

1 hour ago, bpwwer said:

Unless it's a Roku TV, no.  the node server only controls Roku devices.

@bpwwer

I see the commands on my Roku TVs and any command seems to turn on the Roku connected TVs that support it. 

I find it strange that Alexa can trigger the turn off action through the HDMI connection but the app, or remote don't seem to.  I wonder if the same command to turn off the Roku TV would work on the Roku Boxes....   ?‍♂️?‍♂️

[bpwwer]

I don't know what else to tell you. The Roku documentation lists the following as supported keypresses:

  Home
  Rev
  Fwd
  Play
  Select
  Left
  Right
  Down
  Up
  Back
  InstantReplay
  Info
  Backspace
  Search
  Enter

It also supports querying and launching installed apps.  That's it.

[larryllix]

My older Roku Stick supports the TV off via CEC but the newer Roku has no support for that and the TV power button sends iR only now.

For some reason Roku has abandoned the CEC feature

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[roberthleeii]

3 hours ago, bpwwer said:

I don't know what else to tell you. The Roku documentation lists the following as supported keypresses:

  Home
  Rev
  Fwd
  Play
  Select
  Left
  Right
  Down
  Up
  Back
  InstantReplay
  Info
  Backspace
  Search
  Enter

It also supports querying and launching installed apps.  That's it.

@bpwwer, sorry I did not mean to imply anything negative about the NS. I don't think there is anything wrong with it or saying you missed something. 

It is things like this that bug me in general. I like to figure little quarks like this out. (I wish I had the coding skills to understand more of this) It also bugs me that Roku has this ability but only seems to share it with Amazon, they won't even put it in their own app. ?‍♂️