Description:
The MeiKu plug-in allows you to monitor and control Roku streaming devices in HomeSeer. MeiKu uses uPnP to discover Roku's in your house and gives you the option create different types of devices to either monitor and/or control the Roku.
Price:
$29.95
Features:
Details:
Meiku gives you the option to control and/or monitor your Roku Devices. There are currently 5 basic devices the plug-in creates:
There are a few options that can be changed to alter the behavior of the plug-in.
General:
Rokus:
Logging:
There are currently 2 options for logging for the plug-in.
The MeiKu plug-in allows you to monitor and control Roku streaming devices in HomeSeer. MeiKu uses uPnP to discover Roku's in your house and gives you the option create different types of devices to either monitor and/or control the Roku.
Price:
$29.95
Features:
- Monitor which app is currently open on your Rokus
- Send remote control commands to your Roku
- See the status of the headphones on your device (requires support on your Roku)
- Launch any app installed on your Roku
- Send a string of characters and/or commands to your roku.
Details:
Meiku gives you the option to control and/or monitor your Roku Devices. There are currently 5 basic devices the plug-in creates:
- Main Root Device
- This is the main root device. This device current provides no functionality, but is reserved for future functionality.
- Player root device and power status
- This is the main root device for a Roku and is always created. This Device is used to show the power/online state of the Roku and also whether or not the screensaver is active.
- Installed Apps/App Control
- This device is used to show the the currently open App and gives you the option to open any app currently installed.
- This is an optional device. You must check the "Create Applications/Current App Device" checkmark in the MeiKu General options to have this device created for your Rokus.
- Remote Control
- This device allows you to send commands to the Roku as if it were from the Remote. Depending on the device and the features that are available, this may include extra controls such as "Find Remote".
- This is an option device. You must Check the "Create Control Device" checkbox in the MeiKu General options to have this device created for your Rokus.
- Headphones Status
- This devices allws you to see the status of the Headphones. If your device supports remotes that headphones plug into. This device will tell you if the headphones are plugged in or not.
- Thisis an optional device. You must check the "Create Headphones Device" checkbox in the MeiKu General options to have this device created for your Rokus.
There are a few options that can be changed to alter the behavior of the plug-in.
General:
- Create Applications/Current App Device - This checkbox tells the plug-in to create a device to monitor the currently open app and allow you to launch apps from HomeSeer.
- Create Control Device - This checkbox tells the plug-in to create a device for each of your Rokus that allows you to send remote control commands to the Roku.
- Create Headphones Device - This checkbox tells the plug-in to create a device for each of your Rokus that lets you see if the headphones are plugged into the remote or not.
- Discovery Interval - This tells the plug-in how often to check for new Roku Devices. This is defaulted to 0 (disabled), but if you want to check for new Rokus on a regular interval, you can change this value. This value will also self heal Rokus that have change IP addresses so that the plug-in gets the new IP address.
- Discovery Timeout - This tells the plug-in how long you want to look for Rokus each time a discovery is run. In my tests I have found 5 seconds to be adequate, but this can be increased if all your Rokus are not found. It is not advisable to set this larger than say 1 minute.
- Device Polling - This tells the plug-in how often you want it to check each Roku for changes in the currently open App and other settings. This can be set to 0 (zero) seconds to disable it.
- Device App Polling - This tells the plug-in how often you want to check each Roku for changes in the installed apps on your Rokus. the default is once per day (24 hours). You can set this to 0 (zero) to disable it.
- Delete Uninstalled Apps - Checking this will tell the plug-in to delete the app from the Apps device status pairs if it is no longer on the Roku when the Apps are updated from the Roku (using Device app polling). Beware that this might cause events to not work if you are checking for a specific app or setting the app in an event.
Rokus:
- Discover Rokus - Pressing this button will manually look for new Rokus. This can also be used if your Roku's IP address has changed and you want to update it in the plug-in.
- Device List - This is the list of Roku's the plug-in knows about. Each Roku has a set of options for each one:
- Create Devices? - Checking this will tell the plug-in to create devices for this Roku. If you uncheck this box, the plug-in will not delete the devices in HomeSeer. That is left up to the user to do. If the devices are left, they will not be updated during polling of devices is this box is unchecked.
- Update Apps - Pressing this button will do a manual poll of the device for new installed apps and uninstall any that are missing if the "Delete Uninstall Apps" checkbox is checked in the General options.
Logging:
There are currently 2 options for logging for the plug-in.
- Enable Debug Logging - Enabling this option will create a log file in \logs\MeiKu.log in the HomeSeer install directory. This should only be turned on for sending debug information to the Developer upon request.
- HomeSeer logging Level - This sets the level of logging that goes to the HomeSeer logs. For most cases, Error or Off should be adequate.
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