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Sony Bravia Android TV -> Turn screen ON/OFF using ADB

TLDR

By using this method https://gist.github.com/Ademking/e9141c8336de77c3ea1c390dc666bfaa I've recorded which button is the "PICTURE_OFF" on my remote that simply turns off the screen on Bravia TV and then triggered this from command line.

Story

I could not find any programmatic way to turn off the display of Sony Bravia TV that I could for example script in Home Assistant.

I was thinking that maybe somewhere there is an Android "Activity" which would trigger this via ssh but did not find any. In the end you can turn off Sony Bravia from the "Action Menu" that you can find in your remote (I think this menu is editable so maybe you have to add there this command but mine was there out of the box).

This script is a collection of methods that allow you to programatically manage your Windows taskbar icons.

The main purpose of this is to help the people who are using corporate laptops where the IT is forcefully managing the pinned icons. In my case I get the default pinned icons every time I reboot my laptop which is annoying.

There are many ways to run this script but I am using the only one that was not blocked on PC by IT which is to run Win+R and type there shell:startup. In the directory that just opened you can place the script or a Shortcut to it and then it will execute on every startup (might be delayed a bit depending on hoe many apps ru nat startup).

You can also see that I keep the script runing continuously in the background because in my case the IT is updating taskbar every 100 minutes so now I revert to my setup everr minute if needed.

Summary

This Guide describes how to have a KVM like solution but cheaper and maybe just good enough for you.

What hardware you need

This works between any Windows machines. I have 1 Windows PC and 1 Windows Laptop.
I am using 2 Monitors where both support at least 2 input sources and they also support DDC/CI (One has 1xDP + 1xHDMI and other 1xDP + 2xHDMI)
I have a PCI-E graphics card in my PC that has multiple outputs. I bought a 4xUSB switch that supports 2 sources and a USB-C -> 2xDP adapter for laptop (as it had only 1 HDMI slot). It is way cheaper to have the devices separate because for some reason KVM devices that support high refresh rate monitors and/or 4K are very expensive while adapters are cheap.

In the end you have 2 deviced connected to both monitors simultaneously (as both monitors have at least 2 inputs, each for each device) and for the keybord, mouse etc. you use a separate USB switch (mine has a physical button but you ca

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Philips Hue Lights - Scenes and Color Palettes

The following is a dump of all the Scenes and colors used by default Scenes in Philips Hue mobile app. I had 10 lights so each of the scenes is showing values for each of them. Normally a Scene has up to 6 color variants but I've decided to just list them all as it is. If you need unique values then it is easy to convert it.

It is useful if you want to use the scenes in your application with lights that are not Philips hue or if you don't have the Gateway to setup scenes and read the data etc.

I have included an .csv file which can be easily converted to anything and scenes.yaml file that can be imported as part of Home Assistant yaml configuration.

All of the lights have dummy names such as light.hue_1 up to light.hue_10 making it easier to replace the names with your own lights when importing to any other application.

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