pparedes1
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6 years ago Congrats on getting the code working and sending commands to it from Alexa. From the output it looks like you sent a turn off tv command, followed by a turn on tv command? I'm assuming if the TV is on and you send mute commands or open Netflix, etc it should work as well. As long as ngrok is running you will keep the same endpoint, if you closed it and a new ngrok session is opened, you'll need to update the custom Alexa skill with the new endpoint. To avoid this issue I moved my instance to the cloud on Heroku, which is where I assume you'll want to run this from (or AWS...).
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The original code calls module lgtv2 to handle all the functions with the TV including the storing of the keyfile, In the node_modules directory you should see some of that code there including the pairing.json file along with the code that actually creates the keyFile. Is this what you meant?
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One of the limitations of the original code was that the TV needs to be on for the program to connect using the ip address in the configuration (otherwise you get the can't connect error you previously shared). I've tried playing around with different wake on lan modules so that it doesn't need to be on and can be awoken remotely, however I've had limited success in making that work 100%.
voydz (felix), made some suggestions in the code to implement a better connector but I haven't gotten around to testing and implementing such a feature, if you have suggestions on making the code better, please do so and I can incorporate into my fork or even in the original code. The reason I forked his code was because his version was in german, after you wrote I updated my code to handle localization for German or English and suggested a pull request. This was really a side project to test somethings on the LG, not ultimately sure what you want to do with this API.
StarfighterJ
I am getting this after about 10 mins in to testing I am almost there. (See Blow) Also when turning on tv getting a "Requested Skill took to long to respond" it does turn on tv but, it produces the below result. When you said this: " Once you’ve accepted the request on tv, it stores the authorization locally and you shouldn’t get again (unless you delete the key on your pc)." What file and where would this hide on my PC?. One more thing now that I have this set up on ngrok will it stay there or do I have to do the whole process again?
C:\Users\TEST\Downloads\alexa-lgtv-remote-master\alexa-lgtv-remote-master>npm run start
[16:17:20] Using gulpfile ~\Downloads\alexa-lgtv-remote-master\alexa-lgtv-remote-master\gulpfile.js [16:17:20] Starting 'build'... [16:17:20] Starting 'lint'... [16:17:28] Finished 'lint' after 8.19 s [16:17:28] Starting 'builder'... [16:17:29] Finished 'builder' after 600 ms [16:17:29] Finished 'build' after 8.8 s Loaded "en" Translations successfully. alexa-lgtv-remote listening on port 3000! Fire of request 'ssap://system/turnOff' with payload: undefined Executing turnOff 1000 Sending magic packet to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX with IP=XXX.XX.XXX.XXX. All's fine. Your computer is awakening right now...