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by jon-wood 4 days ago
Yes. I could do that. I could also hook something up to the debug serial port and reverse engineer that, or use HDMI-CEC, or make a tiny robot that pushes the buttons on the back of the TV. I'm using the API though, because I already have a Home Assistant server on my network and that can communicate with the API without me having to faff about making tiny robots.