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An update to what I have found, perhaps this will help someone else looking for a solution to this problem: Hexnode and Vysor both are not in the Shield Google Play store, and even sideloading Hexnode I could not get it to work properly. Perhaps needs the device to be rooted which I would prefer not to do. Using srccpy, I am able to control the Nvidia Shield remotely, and all it needs to be is in developer mode. I am able to mirror the screen of the Shield to a PC on the network, or even one VPN'ed into the network (we used Wireguard on a Rasberry Pi 400 as a test). You can even see the video playing on the user's Shield if it is Youtube, Pluto TV, but NOT the major streaming services (probably a drm thing???). But this gives you a nice way to add apps and change settings to a Nvidia Shield remotely. Plan on replacing a few Roku's in the field with this solution as it gives us more configurability, is faster at loading apps, and hopefully less downtime.

Is anyone out there able to remotely control their customer's roku or nvidia shields, from their offices, changing settings within these boxes? We are finding some of the Roku's we have out in the field are reverting to previous settings (No video displays but audio comes through fine), causing customers to become frustrated and of course phone calls to us. I was wondering if there is some way to group manage Roku devices, like a Mobile Device Manager would be used for computers, to standardize but also take control of the actual unit (and see what is being shown on the screen). I have looked into this and there may be something of the sort for Nvidia Shields (Vysor or Hexnode MDM). Just curious if other installers have decided to go this route to avoid broken Roku updates or changes.

So I wound up buying the monitor for a potential job, and worst case, if the job falls through or if the monitor doesn't work how I need it to, I can repurpose it as a computer monitor. It arrived today and while I haven't spent a lot of time with it, this is what I found: Definitely cannot be controlled via IP. It doesn't have Remote IP Control as an option in the menu, so I cannot find it via SDDP, unlike another Samsung TV I have on my network that is connected via WiFi only. I am able to turn it on and off via IR using a random Samsung TV driver from 2016, which was my backup option. The customer has an LG TV (720P) of the same size and that is already controlled via IR, so this won't be any worse. Yet this will be 1080P and be able to take a native signal from the HDBaseT system we plan on using (4K/1080P). So of course I will need to test this more, but I think it may work for the customer (assuming they want to go forward with this redesign).

Was wondering if you wound up buying this particular monitor and whether you were able to integrate it with Control4. I have a customer needing a 27"" TV (or monitor with built in speakers, 1080p at the minimum) that can integrate with Control4, so I have thought about this particular unit. The problem I see is no ethernet port, so will have to rely on WiFi I assume, and most likely the remote is RF so probably no ability for IR? Would like to hear what you may have chosen for your project.