Sky HD Box Test

[leecollings]

Hey guys,

I saw my name wa mentioned! My ears were burning.

I'd love to be able to contribute this if I can, I'm not sure how though, I'm not a coder, however I'd love to see a native Domoticz plugin for controlling Sky box.

From what I've used of Dal's stuff, the sky-remote-cli was the most useful for me for sending simple commands to a box in a script, however there was a lag in firing, finding the box and performing the action (usually around 5 - 10 seconds).

The main plugin was much better although that required a daemon running to be constantly connected to the box.

Is there any active progress on a plugin being developed?

[C4rtm4N]

I decided to revisit this topic yesterday to see if there was an easy way of detecting whether the Sky box was on or not. Thankfully I've found one which may be of interest to others, especially if a plugin is eventually going to be written.

Sky allow you to easily send a photo of resolution 1280x720 to your box and rather conveniently it returns an http code of 200 when the box is on, 404 if it's in standby. Even if a non-existent jpg is sent then the resultant codes are the same

As I mentioned I'd been specifically looking for a way to power my TV on as it doesn't have WOL functionality and this does the job perfectly (using Dal's Sky remote CLI). I'm seeing no delays, in fact I needed to throttle the commands as I was sending them too quick. If the box is already on I'm turning it off then back on as that triggers my TV to turn itself on.

There are other topics on the forum re sending messages to the TV screen - by having a number of different jpgs available this method will help out with those too

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#!/bin/bash
SkyStatus=`curl -i -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}"  'http://SKYBOXADDRESS:49159/photo-viewing/start?uri=http://IPOFYOURCHOICE/null.jpg'`
echo $SkyStatus
if [[ $SkyStatus -eq '200' ]]; then
	sleep 0.5
	curl 'http://SKYBOXADDRESS:49159/photo-viewing/stop'
	sky-remote-cli SKYBOXADDRESS power
	echo "Power Off"
	sleep 1
fi

echo $SkyStatus
sky-remote-cli SKYBOXADDRESS power
echo "Power On"	

[lolouk44]

Heyy C4rtm4N,

You're awesome, I've been looking for a way to get the status of my Sky box for such a long time, and your script work really well.
THANK YOU

[lolouk44]

Any idea why it won't run as root?
as ny normal user it works, but as root I get:
sky_hd_status.sh: [[: not found

[dextm80]

Any idea why it won't run as root?
as ny normal user it works, but as root I get:
sky_hd_status.sh: [[: not found

sudo bash sky_hd_status.sh

[dextm80]

i've a MYSKY hd on demand. There is a way to check the status of the box?
i tried sky-remote-cli but nothing happends

[dextm80]

i've a MYSKY hd on demand. There is a way to check the status of the box?
i tried sky-remote-cli but nothing happends

no news?

[C4rtm4N]

What do you mean by Mysky HD on demand?

If it is a normal Sky HD box then I posted a script previously in this thread that can work out whether the box is in standby or not. Does it not work?

If it is Sky Q then I have no idea whether it will work or not as I don't have that service to test.

[dextm80]

What do you mean by Mysky HD on demand?

If it is a normal Sky HD box then I posted a script previously in this thread that can work out whether the box is in standby or not. Does it not work?

If it is Sky Q then I have no idea whether it will work or not as I don't have that service to test.

Yes, it doesn't work

i've this decoder (pace):

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Can you help me to set your script?

[C4rtm4N]

What code do you get if you run this? Replace SKYBOXADDRESS with the IP of your Sky box, you don't need to replace the IPOFYOURCHOICE part for testing.

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curl -i -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}"  'http://SKYBOXADDRESS:49159/photo-viewing/start?uri=http://IPOFYOURCHOICE/null.jpg'

If it's 200 then it means that the Sky Box is on, if it's 404 then it's off.

Your box looks to be a newer model than mine so there is a chance that they disabled this functionality now.

[dextm80]

What code do you get if you run this? Replace SKYBOXADDRESS with the IP of your Sky box, you don't need to replace the IPOFYOURCHOICE part for testing.

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curl -i -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}"  'http://SKYBOXADDRESS:49159/photo-viewing/start?uri=http://IPOFYOURCHOICE/null.jpg'

If it's 200 then it means that the Sky Box is on, if it's 404 then it's off.

Your box looks to be a newer model than mine so there is a chance that they disabled this functionality now.

Hi, thank you. When i try this line code nothing appends...

[C4rtm4N]

Looks like they changed things with their new box then

I assume that the box doesn't ping (neither of mine do although from memory they used to so Sky are clearly making functionality changes in their firmware) ?

Will sky-remote-cli change channels etc or is it totally dead too?

[dextm80]

Looks like they changed things with their new box then

I assume that the box doesn't ping (neither of mine do although from memory they used to so Sky are clearly making functionality changes in their firmware) ?

Will sky-remote-cli change channels etc or is it totally dead too?

Yes, i can’t ping my box, it is totally dead too