Share Playstate on older LG webOS TVs

This mod enables sharing the playstate on older LG webOS versions by exposing the com.webos.media/getForegroundAppInfo API via the secondscreen gateway running on TCP port 3000. For example, so that the Home Assistant integration for LG webOS TV can access it.

This was tested with the following webOS versions:

• 6.5.1 (LG OLED C1 firmware version 03.52.50)

Newer webOS versions (I think starting with webOS 7) expose this API by default and, therefore, do not need this mod.

Installation

It requires that you rooted your TV and have SSH enabled. See https://www.webosbrew.org/rooting/.

Clone the repository and upload it on your TV:

git clone https://github.com/lxp/webos-share-playstate
rsync -rEtv webos-share-playstate root@<your TV IP address>:

Then connect to your TV via SSH (i.e. ssh root@<your TV IP address>) and finalize the installation:

mkdir -p /var/lib/webosbrew/init.d
ln -sf /home/root/webos-share-playstate/share-playstate.sh /var/lib/webosbrew/init.d/10-share-playstate

Uninstallation

Connect to your TV via SSH and do the following steps:

rm /var/lib/webosbrew/init.d/10-share-playstate
rm -r /home/root/webos-share-playstate