exiva/Vizio_SmartCast_API

Figuring out control syntax to open specific app (Netflix, Hulu, etc.)

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brubaked commented

I recently noticed that the Vizio smartphone app (android) added support to open all the smart apps from within the app. I poked around the decompiled app and found the following endpoints in Vizio/vue/devicecontrol/api/enums/VZRestEndpoint.java:

APP(null, "app"),
APP_CURRENT(APP, "current"),
APP_LAUNCH(APP, "launch"),
APP_CONFIG(APP, "config"),
APP_CONFIG_GET(APP_CONFIG, "get_property"),
APP_STORE(APP, "store"),
APP_STORE_GET(APP_STORE, "get"),
APP_STORE_SET(APP_STORE, "set"),

I can get the current app with the following curl command:
curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "AUTH: XXXXXXXX" -X GET https://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX:7345/app/current

Here is the output:

{"STATUS": {"RESULT": "SUCCESS", "DETAIL": "Success"}, "ITEM": {"TYPE": "T_APP_V1", "VALUE": {"MESSAGE": "https://www.youtube.com/tv", "NAME_SPACE": 5, "APP_ID": "1"}}, "URI": "/app/current"}

I'm not sure what the syntax to launch an app is though. Any help is appreciated.

brubaked commented

Alright, made some more progress.

The following opens youtube.

curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "AUTH: XXXXXXXXXX" -X PUT -d '{"VALUE": {"MESSAGE": "https://www.youtube.com/tv", "NAME_SPACE": 5, "APP_ID": "1"}}' https://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX:7345/app/launch

Running the following while another app is on screen

curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "AUTH: XXXXXXXX" -X GET https://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX:7345/app/current

Gives the MESSAGE, NAME_SPACE, and APP_ID necessary to launch any other app directly.

Actually, it looks like you can open apps while leaving the "message" field set to null.

curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "AUTH: XXXXXXXXXX" -X PUT -d '{"VALUE": {"MESSAGE": null, "NAME_SPACE": 5, "APP_ID": "1"}}' https://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX:7345/app/launch

for example works.

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raman325 commented

I was able to get a list of app APP_ID, NAME_SPACE, and MESSAGE parameters from the apk source: raman325/pyvizio#22 (comment)

exiva commented

@brubaked @raman325 Great find! I'll start updating the doc with the table of apps and command to launch.

exiva commented

Can you verify the docs are correct now? in commit 6a27e7b

Also if someone can give the response from a successful /app/launch??

brubaked commented

Running
curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "AUTH: XXXXXXXXXX" -X PUT -d '{"VALUE": {"MESSAGE": "https://www.youtube.com/tv", "NAME_SPACE": 5, "APP_ID": "1"}}' https://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX:7345/app/launch

results in
{"STATUS": {"RESULT": "SUCCESS", "DETAIL": "Success"}}

exiva commented

thanks 👍

exiva commented

Docs added, thanks again for the information!

brubaked commented

Sorry I just noticed that you have "name_space" and "app_id" as integer here:

`{
	"VALUE": {
		"MESSAGE": String,
		"NAME_SPACE": Integer,
		"APP_ID": Integer
	}
}`

I believe it should be

`{
	"VALUE": {
		"MESSAGE": String,
		"NAME_SPACE": Integer,
		"APP_ID": String
	}
}`

Running
curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "AUTH: XXXXXXXXXX" -X PUT -d '{"VALUE": {"MESSAGE": "https://www.youtube.com/tv", "NAME_SPACE": 5, "APP_ID": "1"}}' https://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX:7345/app/launch
is successful (note "APP_ID": "1"), while running

curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "AUTH: XXXXXXXXXX" -X PUT -d '{"VALUE": {"MESSAGE": "https://www.youtube.com/tv", "NAME_SPACE": 5, "APP_ID": 1}}' https://XXX.XXX.XX.XXX:7345/app/launch

(note "APP_ID": 1) results in

{"STATUS": {"RESULT": "INVALID_PARAMETER", "DETAIL": "Invalid parameter"}, "URI": "/app/launch"}

exiva commented

Fixed 73ca1cb