Roku is the most popular streaming media player.  Supports most of the major streaming services like Netflix, Roku Channel, Spectrum and many others.

With Allonis's myServer 6 driver, you can control a Roku player from the tablet or smart phone just like you control it with the standard handheld remote control.

Required: Any Roku player:  Express, Premier, Streaming Stick+, Ultra, or most any Roku equipped Smart Tv.

myServer 6

 The Roku must be setup using the handheld remote to accept their license agreement / services setup typical for normal usage.

 

Supported commands for most Roku devices:

AddTV

AutoDiscover

Discover

Logging

Remove Devices

Set Active Device

Backspace

ChannelUp

ChannelDown

Down

Enter

Forward

Home

Info

Input AV1

Input HDMI1

InputHDMI2

InputHDMI3

InputHDMI4

InputTuner

InstantReplay

Keyboard

Launch

Left

LongPress: Roku Longpress is implemented as a KeyDown,  wait 1.5 seconds then KeyUp.

Mute

Play

Power

Reverse

Right

Search

Select

Up

Volume

 

 

 

Driver Installation:

Download the Roku driver from the myServer 6 Software Updater.  The driver will self install.

Go to the Drivers section and select Configure for the Roku driver.

The supported commands are listed in the Commands drop down list.

Use the Discover command to find and all all Roku devices on the network.  

Note the device ID for the Roku stick you would like to control.

You should now be able to send commands to the Roku player from myServer.  Note that some commands only work when the Roku is on certain screens or activities.

 To use Roku in the SportsBar template, Add 

"setvariable|activeroom{{clientname}}roku_id~90"  where 90 is the device ID for the Roku hardware.

to the activate-room.sportsbar macro.

If the TV runs Roku OS, then change the Roku driver device type to "TV" so the standard sports bar templates / macros understand it's a TV (for power All on / off control).

Roku's use port 7000 for communication and must be open for connection.  The Roku Beacon communicates on port 8060.

 

If you cannot get the Roku driver to control Roku TVs, then possibly CEC might work:

https://support.roku.com/article/360034303013

 SmartRemote:

 

The new SmartRemote works well with Roku players / TVs.

The Roku doesn't support direct channel entry.

One thing we noticed is that the Roku player struggles with processing command sent quickly to it for tasks like scrolling up the Channel Guide.

Here is a workaround:

The Up / Down cursors work great to move up / down one channel at a time.

The Channel Up Short press can invoke:  For|Loop##1##5##Macro|AV|{{active_roku_{{clientname}}}}~Up!Pause|0.05

This skips up 5 rows quickly (the 0.05 is how many miliseconds inbetween Up commands sent to the Roku)

Then Channel Up Long press can invoke: For|Loop##1##30##Macro|AV|{{active_roku_{{clientname}}}}~Up!Pause|0.05

For more aggressive channel up, this command skips 30 channels with each Long press.