startautomating / powroku

Script your Roku with PowerShell

PowRoku is a nifty little PowerShell module to help automate your Roku(s).

It is built atop the Roku External Control Protocol.

You can use PowRoku to control Roku devices and Roku TVs.

Assuming you have a Roku TV, and it's on, use this to try it out:

Find-Roku                 # Find your Rokus

Find-Roku | Get-Roku -App # Get all of the Apps on each Roku

Find-Roku | Get-Roku -ActiveApp # Get the Active App on each Roku

Find-Roku | Stop-Roku     # Turn your Roku TV off (only works for Rokus which support PowerOff)

# Turn up the volume
Send-Roku -Method POST -Data '' -Command Keypress/VolumeUp

Find-Roku | 
    Get-Roku -App | 
    Where-Object { $_.Name -eq 'Netflix' } | 
    Start-Roku

Start-Roku -MacAddress $myRokuMac # Send a Wake-on-Lan to your Roku's MACAddress

powroku's Issues

Roku Development Templates

PowRoku should include templates for common Roku development scenarios.

Find-Roku doesn't appear to locate my device.

Hey there!

I really enjoyed your summit talks and your work on some of the IOT stuff was really neat.

I Installed PowRoku and attempted to find my Roku TV ( a TCL 55S435, running Roku TV G103X). The Find-Roku function doesn't seem to locate my roku device. The host i'm running from is on the the same subnet.

I did manually pull my IP address, and it seems like the other commands work, such as: Stop-Roku -IPAddress $IPAddress

Also, not sure if helpful at all, but I was able to find it using UPNP, which I believe uses SSDP:

$UPNPFinder.FindByType('upnp:rootdevice', 0) | Where-Object {$_.ManufacturerName -like '*TCL*'}

I'm not familiar with SSDP or C# really but happy to provide any details I can.