My First Roku Experiment

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One of the things that I liked about my Roku was the ability to control it from my Android tablet.  However, when I was sitting at my computer it was a pain to fire up the tablet just to change the movie.  That got me started thinking about something I could run on my laptop.

So, what was a guy to do?  I thought I could just take my search to the great Google and get a quick answer on either a nice app I could download or a way to get started, but all I found was a few iPhone and Android apps and one AutoIT script for windows.  None of that did me any good on my Ubuntu netbook.

I decided to build a PHP page that I could place on the Apache server on my netbook.  It has to know the IP address of my Roku and be able to send Linux commands on port 8060 and port 8080.

This is the first release.  In the future I hope to build fancier graphics and make the application shortcut buttons more dynamic, but that'll be for another day.  It is a PHP script that sends Linux commands, so you must have a Linux web server with PHP (just in case that wasn't obvious).

To install, just download and unzip the zip file in your root web directory (i.e. /var/www), edit the index.php file with the IP address of your Roku, and then go to http://localhost/roku.

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