how to turn off roku TV through the web?

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Can anyone tell me how to turn off a roku TV via HTTP?

I’ve found the external control guide: https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/External+Control+API which doesn’t seem to be up to date, or working? Or I’m just doing it wrong.

Is there an updated guide or method to do this? I just want to turn off a roku TV remotely. (basically a scheduled task to turn off the TV at the same time every day)

thanks!

Brad

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Good to see you! I’m not sure but I think I remember something about not being able to do that. :?

Have you been successful doing other commands?

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I don’t know about ECP, but this works (in Linux):

echo press \# | telnet 192.168.0.121 8080

Of course, replace 192.168.0.121 with your Roku’s IP address.

-JT

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HIya Komag! I’ve only been able to do read type commands, like system info and such. no control commands seem to work for me.

Thanks renojim, I’ll give that a try tomorrow.

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turns out the ECP worked fine, I wasn’t formatting my request properly. my fault.

thanks for the assistance.

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I’ll have to remember that. What is the command?