SiliconDust HDHomeRun TECH - V. Scripting and Command Line Operations; Overview of Scripting; Discovering Devices; Sending Commands to Devices

V.Scripting
The HDHomeRun can be scripted using the hdhomerun_config command line utility.
This utility is cross-platform:
● Windows, Linux, Mac, *BSD, Solaris.
● 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems.
● Big-endian and little-endian CPUs.
● PC or embedded platforms.
Using hdhomerun_config
The list of supported commands can be obtained by running hdhomerun_config without any
parameters:
hdhomerun_config discover
hdhomerun_config <id> get help
hdhomerun_config <id> get <item>
hdhomerun_config <id> set <item> <value>
hdhomerun_config <id> scan <tuner> [<filename>]
hdhomerun_config <id> save <tuner> <filename>
hdhomerun_config <id> upgrade <filename>
Discover the HDHomeRun devices on the network:
The discover command will find HDHomeRun devices that are on the same subnet as the host:
hdhomerun_config discover
Sending commands to a specific HDHomeRun:
The “<id>” shown above represents a unique identifier for a HDHomeRun device, this can be
either Device ID, or IP address:
hdhomerun_config <device id> get help
hdhomerun_config <ip address> get help
To address by Device ID the HDHomeRun must be on the same subnet as the host.
A Device ID of FFFFFFFF can be used as a wild card for the first HDHomeRun device found on the
network. Do not use this syntax if there are multiple HDHomeRun devices on the network, as the
device used will be random based on discovery order, which may change between commands.