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Hi all!

I've recently been asked to develop a new driver for a television which can be connected to the network over TCP/IP.

The manufacturer provided me with a technical document that explains pretty much every command that should be sent

in order to control the television and 

the underlying protocol.

What concerns me the most is that a commad can only be sent using UPnP,

but I don't think that C4 have this capability (i've read something about DLNA in the DriverWorksSDK docs, though). 

Am I missing something or this driver request is something I cannot fulfill?

 

Thanks!

 

 


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Control4 has some UPnP functionality built into driverworks but I've always built my own UPnP functions. It's pretty easy. It's just restful based XML with multicast discovery,

Posted

Thanks for the reply!

Unfortunately I'm not that familiar with UPnP, but if it's worth the effort I'll look more into it.
 
Any suggestion on where I should start? 
 
 
 
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Thanks for the reply!

Unfortunately I'm not that familiar with UPnP, but if it's worth the effort I'll look more into it.

Any suggestion on where I should start?

UPnP.org is a great resource. I would also recommend using a packet sniffer to see what data is being sent to your device so you get a low level understanding.

Quite a lot of technology nowadays uses UPnP or a derivative of it so its well worth learning.

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