Controlling Zidoo UHD5000 Display (brightness) remotely?

Hello all

I am trying to remotely control my UHD5000's display brightness over IP for a seamless integration into my homecinema automation system.

I am using calls like "/ZidooControlCenter/RemoteControl/sendkey?key=Key.PowerOn.Poweroff" for example to remotely shut down the Zidoo using my home automation.

But I have found no way yet to control its display brightness. The "key.light", "Key.Screen.ON" or "Key.Screen.OFF" switches from the ip control PDF do not seem to work.

I want to be able to turn the display on and off, anyone any idea?

Best,
Houbi

 

I'm going to have a fiddle with that over the weekend, personally I had issues with some of the Key.command functions when I first set it up and ended up using a mix of IR emitters and IP commands.

 

To query brightness:

POST http://{{host}}/SystemSettings/functionSettings/getFrontBrightList

for example, in my case:

http://192.168.0.164:9529/SystemSettings/functionSettings/getFrontBrightList

This returns:

Code:

{"status":200,"currentIndex":1,"url":"\/SystemSettings\/functionSettings\/setFrontBright?index=","data":[{"index":0,"title":"Off"},{"index":1,"title":"Bright"},{"index":2,"title":"Dimmed"}]}

So currentIndex is 1, therefore "Bright"

0 is Off, 1 is bright and 2 is dimmed.

So if I want to change to dimmed, I send:

http://192.168.0.164:9529/SystemSettings/functionSettings/setFrontBright?index=2

etc...

 

Full protocol is here but you'll have to push it through a translator:

遥控控制 - 网络控制API - 易文档

 

This works absolutely perfect, thank you so much @Markswift2003

The Zidoo's display now is in sync with the display of the AV8805. Both go out as soon as a movie is playing, both get dimmed when the movie is paused and depending on the time of day get back to bright or dimmed when the movie is stopped. love this.

THANKS A LOT!

 

Awesome!

I've been a Crestron programmer for over 20 years so I know how satisfying it is when you get seamless integration working properly like this.

 

…yes it absolutely is! Also controlling over 50 lights, 10 motion sensors and a ton of other things..

it‘s really really kool what happens in the back-end when one presses play…