https://toorun.dev/tags/smart-home/Recent content in smart-home on toorun.devHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://toorun.dev/posts/smart-tv-remote-control-apis-how-to-discover-and-control-tvs-over-wi-fi/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000https://toorun.dev/posts/smart-tv-remote-control-apis-how-to-discover-and-control-tvs-over-wi-fi/Smart TV Remote Control APIs: How to Discover and Control TVs Over Wi-Fi A smart TV is not just a display. It is also a network device with a control surface, and that makes it very different from a traditional infrared remote. In practice, a mobile app or a home-automation gateway can discover a TV on the local network and send commands over HTTP, WebSockets, or a vendor protocol. This is how modern remote-control apps work without pointing a beam of infrared at the screen.