Hi All

With lots of help from people here and Liam Gladdy's brilliant original decoding of the Sky protocols, I've got working control going of Sky HD+ and apparently SkyQ uses the same setup.

It's pretty straightforward - I create an Activity Script which connects to the Sky box

var IPAddress="192.168.3.60";
var Port=49160;
var Timeout=100;
var str = "";
var receivedText = "";
var len;
var command="";


function ConnecttoSky()
{
socket = new TCPSocket(false);
socket.onConnect = onConnect;
socket.onData = onData;
socket.onClose = onClose;
socket.onIOError = onIOError;
socket.connect(IPAddress, Port, Timeout);

Then the only callback we really need is OnData

function onData(){
var code;
var writeText;

// System.print("Ondata.");
receivedText = socket.read();
//System.print(receivedText.length)

if (receivedText.length < 24){
socket.write(receivedText.slice(0,len));
len = 1;
}
else {
//System.print("Writing Data");
code = SkyRemoteCommands[command];
// System.print ("Hex is " + showHEX(String.fromCharCode(code & 0xff)));
writeText = "\x04\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00"+chr[Math.floor(224 + (code/16))]+chr[code % 16];
socket.write (writeText);
writeText = "\x04\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"+chr[Math.floor(224 + (code/16))]+chr[code % 16];
socket.write (writeText);

// socket.write (ArrayToString([0x04,0x01,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,Math.floor(224 + (code/16)),code % 16]));
// socket.write (ArrayToString([0x04,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00,Math.floor(224 + (code/16)),code % 16]));

socket.close();
socket=null;
}

}

and this uses two fixed arrays

ar SkyRemoteCommands = new Array()

SkyRemoteCommands = {
power: 0,
select: 1,
backup: 2,
dismiss: 2,
channelup: 6,
channeldown: 7,
interactive: 8,
sidebar: 8,
help: 9,
services: 10,
search: 10,
tvguide: 11,
home: 11,
i: 14,
text: 15,
up: 16,
down: 17,
left: 18,
right: 19,
red: 32,
green: 33,
yellow: 34,
blue: 35,
0: 48,
1: 49,
2: 50,
3: 51,
4: 52,
5: 53,
6: 54,
7: 55,
8: 56,
9: 57,
play: 64,
pause: 65,
stop: 66,
record: 67,
fastforward: 69,
rewind: 71,
boxoffice: 240,
sky: 241
}

var chr=new Array()
chr=[
"\x00", "\x01", "\x02", "\x03", "\x04", "\x05", "\x06", "\x07", "\x08", "\x09", "\x0A", "\x0B", "\x0C", "\x0D", "\x0E", "\x0F",
"\x10", "\x11", "\x12", "\x13", "\x14", "\x15", "\x16", "\x17", "\x18", "\x19", "\x1A", "\x1B", "\x1C", "\x1D", "\x1E", "\x1F",
"\x20", "\x21", "\x22", "\x23", "\x24", "\x25", "\x26", "\x27", "\x28", "\x29", "\x2A", "\x2B", "\x2C", "\x2D", "\x2E", "\x2F",
"\x30", "\x31", "\x32", "\x33", "\x34", "\x35", "\x36", "\x37", "\x38", "\x39", "\x3A", "\x3B", "\x3C", "\x3D", "\x3E", "\x3F",
"\x40", "\x41", "\x42", "\x43", "\x44", "\x45", "\x46", "\x47", "\x48", "\x49", "\x4A", "\x4B", "\x4C", "\x4D", "\x4E", "\x4F",
"\x50", "\x51", "\x52", "\x53", "\x54", "\x55", "\x56", "\x57", "\x58", "\x59", "\x5A", "\x5B", "\x5C", "\x5D", "\x5E", "\x5F",
"\x60", "\x61", "\x62", "\x63", "\x64", "\x65", "\x66", "\x67", "\x68", "\x69", "\x6A", "\x6B", "\x6C", "\x6D", "\x6E", "\x6F",
"\x70", "\x71", "\x72", "\x73", "\x74", "\x75", "\x76", "\x77", "\x78", "\x79", "\x7A", "\x7B", "\x7C", "\x7D", "\x7E", "\x7F",
"\x80", "\x81", "\x82", "\x83", "\x84", "\x85", "\x86", "\x87", "\x88", "\x89", "\x8A", "\x8B", "\x8C", "\x8D", "\x8E", "\x8F",
"\x90", "\x91", "\x92", "\x93", "\x94", "\x95", "\x96", "\x97", "\x98", "\x99", "\x9A", "\x9B", "\x9C", "\x9D", "\x9E", "\x9F",
"\xA0", "\xA1", "\xA2", "\xA3", "\xA4", "\xA5", "\xA6", "\xA7", "\xA8", "\xA9", "\xAA", "\xAB", "\xAC", "\xAD", "\xAE", "\xAF",
"\xB0", "\xB1", "\xB2", "\xB3", "\xB4", "\xB5", "\xB6", "\xB7", "\xB8", "\xB9", "\xBA", "\xBB", "\xBC", "\xBD", "\xBE", "\xBF",
"\xC0", "\xC1", "\xC2", "\xC3", "\xC4", "\xC5", "\xC6", "\xC7", "\xC8", "\xC9", "\xCA", "\xCB", "\xCC", "\xCD", "\xCE", "\xCF",
"\xD0", "\xD1", "\xD2", "\xD3", "\xD4", "\xD5", "\xD6", "\xD7", "\xD8", "\xD9", "\xDA", "\xDB", "\xDC", "\xDD", "\xDE", "\xDF",
"\xE0", "\xE1", "\xE2", "\xE3", "\xE4", "\xE5", "\xE6", "\xE7", "\xE8", "\xE9", "\xEA", "\xEB", "\xEC", "\xED", "\xEE", "\xEF",
"\xF0", "\xF1", "\xF2", "\xF3", "\xF4", "\xF5", "\xF6", "\xF7", "\xF8", "\xF9", "\xFA", "\xFB", "\xFC", "\xFD", "\xFE", "\xFF"]


Then, when I want to use one, I just set the global variable command, and then call ConnectToSky()

command="services";
ConnecttoSky();

That's it - really simple and very reliable.

pete S

Hello,

I am not sure how to use this in practice, I edited the IP address to suit my Sky Q box and placed the Activity Script in the Advanced Tab for the Activity Properties, minus the text comments and with out the

command="services";
ConnecttoSky();

part.

I then placed this to test the script

command="power";
ConnecttoSky();

under the required button as a "use prontoscript" action item, but cannot get it to work, what am I doing wrong??

Any help most appreciated!

Best regards, Geoff,

Hi Geoff. Well, there's a co-incidence - I was just looking here for the first time in many months for something completely different (RFX9600 protocol, which sadly doesn't really seem to exist) and happened to see this.

Anyway, I can't actually remember how that stuff worked as I moved it all to a library to make it much easier to reuse across my various different remotes. I'm happy to send you the library - I think all you need to tweak would be the ip addresses as I ended up hardcoding these in the library for some reason I can't remember.

Pete,

Regarding that protocol, have you seen this?

[Link: gist.github.com]

or this thread?
[Link: remotecentral.com]

Pete, I would appreciate a copy of the Sky Q library, not sure if this can be sent via RC Mail or not? If not I can provide my direct email address, best regards, Geoff.

Geoff,

Send Pete an RC Mail and hopefully he will respond. Exchange email addresses there as you cannot send files via RC Mail.

Lyndel