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How to change TV channel with Python
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How to change TV channel with Python
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I almost pursued a similar project at one point. It should be doable, but depends on a lot of things.

First off, if you have a smart TV, it might provide some API for doing things easily. You'd have to do some research on that. I'll assume that's not the case for the rest of what I have to say.

You could make a "smart" TV remote. All you need is an infrared LED (which is what is in a TV remote) which either works by USB or you could hook it up to an Arduino or Raspberry Pi. When I planned to do this, I had an infrared reader as well so that I could record what my TV remote was doing and play it back, since I thought it would be more fun to reverse engineer than to look up documentation. You could use Python, or whatever, to control this hardware to do whatever you want it to do.

For someone new to coding, I'd say this is a medium to hard project.
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How to change TV channel with Python - by arsenal58 - Nov-17-2018, 05:41 PM
RE: How to change TV channel with Python - by micseydel - Nov-17-2018, 06:26 PM

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