Control your Roku

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This command will make your Roku remote ring:
curl -XPOST http://(roku IP address):8060/keypress/FindRemote

Here are some other useful Roku commands:

curl -v -XPOST http://(roku IP address):8060/keypress/up
curl -v -XPOST http://(roku IP address):8060/keypress/down
curl -v -XPOST http://(roku IP address):8060/keypress/left
curl -v -XPOST http://(roku IP address):8060/keypress/right
curl -v -XPOST http://(roku IP address):8060/keypress/select

You can also play a specific Youtube video like this:
curl -v -XPOST "http://(roku IP address):8060/launch/837?contentId=cxOuqIZ1J4k"

Launch Netflix:
curl -d '' http://(roku IP address):8060/launch/12

List apps with their app ID's (Netflix's app ID is 12):
curl http://(roku IP address):8060/query/apps

See these pages for more:
https://github.com/tispratik/docs-1/blob/master/develop/guides/remote-api-ecp.md
https://developer.roku.com/docs/developer-program/debugging/external-control-api.md

I used this to create a panel to control my Roku. I created a Windows batch file with a single line like this:

curl -d '' "http://%1:8060/keypress/%2"

I created a single command like this:

Then I made a panel with multiple "buttons" with these parameters:

Play,Rev,Fwd
Select,Left,Right,Down,Up
Back,Home
Info,Search,Enter,InstantReplay,PowerOff,PowerOn

If your roku supports it you could add these:
VolumeDown,VolumeUp,VolumeMute
InputHDMI1,InputHDMI2,InputHDMI3,InputHDMI4

I scanned my panel's QR code to bring it up on my phone, and this is what it looks like: