My understanding is that SmartTVs can now access the web.
Is there a standard for browsing the web with a smart TV? My theory is that I need a USB stick -- I've heard people mention "firesticks", I looked into that and it looks to be a closed steraming platform.
I want to plug in a USB stick to a smart TV with a URL on the USB drive and have the SmartTV open that webpage.
Is this viable at all?
Or do I need to just open the web browser from the SmartTV?
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I'm trying to build a live video streaming application from a usb camera to an application running on a remote desktop. I've researched protocols like RTMP, RTSP, WebRTC. According to my understanding I can't use webRTC since it's only compatible in the browser and I'm not building my application for a browser here. Please help me choose the right protocol and also the media server.
You can, and many applications do, use WebRTC outside the browser. WebRTC implementations are available for many different platforms including iOS, Android and embedded systems.
You can even use Headless Chrome if you want to use the Chrome APIs without the visual parts of the browser.
I added an ESP8266 nodeMCU for TV and SoundBar IR commands. It also provides a LAN server delivering an HTML/javascript based remote controller to my devices - computer, tablets and mobile phones.
I use this same remote setup for both a Roku4 w/ an old Dynex (dumb) TV as well as a newer TCL Roku Smart TV w/ soundbar.
Question is, can I access Roku data as used to be provided by ECP queries like '/query/apps' and '/query/active-app' via the Roku's USB port? ...if not, what is required to accomplish this end?
The definitive answer from the Roku folks is no. It's use is for data storage devices.
On reading many websites, I got confused.
Is the USB driver essential for making the device work? Or is it essential for making it communicate with the OS to do functions such as printing and doing other OS stuff?
To explain my question more clearly -
I am working on developing a USB device, that will communicate with the software i will write.
Do I need to develop a driver for such a system?
or
Do I just need the software program to send the proper messages to the device?
I am assuming your micro controller will be a USB device and your PC will be USB host.
The below diagram is the SW architecture for USB host. Now since your host is a PC, you do not need to worry about any part except the application at the top.
So lets talk about the device. What you need is a device stack which resembles with the host stack below. You can get the device stack easily and port it in your micro controller. But I suppose you need an application in your device too same as the top box of the below diagram which will understand the requests from the host and service the request.
So basically what I am saying that you need two applications and the rest of the components you can get it with some effort.
Regards.
I am trying to create a system for controlling my home appliances using arduino over internet.
Arduino Uno will act as a web server and recieve the commands from remote browser.
In doing to I am not sure as how to protect arduino from unauthorized requests from web.
Is there a way to do this, or is there any library available for this. Please suggest.
What i suggest you is to do what a lot of people does, so: use a raspberry (or a beaglebone or another linux embedded board) for the web interface and the arduino for the sensors/actuators.
This way you can install a real webserver, with a lot more functionalities than the bare arduino. You can then interface the webpages to the serial port to send the arduino the commands
I am trying to find a way to mimic a USB device being connected without actually having it available. I am trying to develop an additional feature to software that is only fully unlocked when the USB device is connected to the computer. Because the client is unable to provide a demo device for me to use here shortly, I'd like to find a way to emulate or mimic the connectivity of the device so I can finish development. Can I do this with a flash drive perhaps? Find someway to copy the files so that when I insert the flash drive it acts as a plug and play device?