Get current screen state

[cbhhargava]

Hi, I see many references to turn the screen on or off (not turning the TV off/on entirely) but I was not able to find any references for getting the current state of screen. I'm trying to make a smart switch to turn the screen on/off but need the current state to make it smart. Right now its just dumb and always assumes tv is on. Its an OLED tv so I want to add this switch to some cool presence detection automations.

[DoughMucker]

Better late than never:

import pywebostv
from pywebostv.connection import *
from pywebostv.controls import *
store = {'client_key':'YourCLIENTKEY'}
client = WebOSClient("YourLGIPAddress")

    #check the foreground app to determine the current source, if it fails TV is off, so turn it on
try:
    client.connect()
    for status in client.register(store):
        app = ApplicationControl(client)
        apps = app.list_apps()
        app_id = app.get_current()
        foreground_app = [x for x in apps if app_id == x["id"]][0]
        system = SystemControl(client)
        system.power_off()
except:
    import socket
    mac="74e6b8ee8ce1"
    soc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
    soc.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1)
    soc.sendto(bytes.fromhex('f'*12 + mac*16), ("192.168.1.255", 9))

The "try" looks for an app_id. If found, the TV is on so we turn it off.
The "except" means the try failed and the TV is off, it sends a WOL magic packet to turn it on.