Hisense TV (Google TV version) has a "Consumer Electronic Control" Menu w/

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Separate enable/disable options for:

Serial/IP Control Port
Control4 Control Port

Any creative or experienced thoughts on how those might be able to be used from HE ? These menu items aren't on the Android/Google side of things, they are all Hisense.

(I'm struck that there would be an explicit port for Control4,
well LA DEE DAAAA,
like there's no other market Home Automation players out there. I guess maybe there's a special Control4 module for interfacing to TVs)

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Hisense has a development note on GitHub. Basically, a MQTT broker built into the TV (?).

Many of our developers are familiar with MQTT and there is an MQTT interface built-in (MQTT Interface | Hubitat Documentation).

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Thanks for that !

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I have a Hisense google tv but I dont see anyting about ports.... where did you find this?

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Look on GitHub for Hisense TV. PS, they also make a lot of other appliances (I wonder if thay all have the built-in MQTT?). Soundbars, air conditioners, refrigs, microwaves, ....

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That's pretty cool... As someone that uses MQTT * a lot * that could actually sway me over to buying their TV instead of another comparative TV in that range.

EDIT: Never mind, looks like recently HiSense has locked down the MQTT on newer TVs, and I'm not interested in playing a cat and mouse game when Roku TVs are available at the same quality/price point and have a published API to connect/use remotely.

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Ya I think thats the case for me..... the port referenced is closed when I check with nmap.

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Dashboard - Settings(gear) - Channels & Inputs

Did you find it ? (This is a U7K Hisense running the Android/Google 12 OS)

""
Serial/IP Control Port
When set to ON, the serial/IP control port can be used.
""

EDIT: Just set the above to ON.

Scanning the TV's IP I see the following services listed-
airplay
androidtvremote2
(EDIT3: wonder if this opens up any control options androidtvremote2 · PyPI )

and the following ports- (some of which may be not so good to see open !)
7000 file server itself, msdos | file server
8088 Radan HTTP
9001 etlservicemgr | Tor ORPort | ETL Service

EDIT2: Toggling on/off the Serial/IP port and the Control4 port mattered not on these port exposures.

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setting isnt there and nmap gives

8008/tcp open http
8009/tcp open ajp13
8443/tcp open https-alt
9000/tcp open cslistener
36669/tcp closed unknown