Roku God Mode

Every Roku runs a small web server on port 8060 — the External Control Protocol — that accepts button presses from anything on the same network, no pairing and no PIN. The official app wraps it in an account and a store listing. Roku God Mode just talks to it directly.

• Finds the TV — SSDP discovery over UDP, or add one by IP; several TVs saved, the last one remembered.
• Every button — d-pad and OK, Back / Home / Replay / Info, play, rewind and fast-forward, volume and mute, press-and-hold.
• Inputs — Antenna, HDMI 1–4 and AV, one tap each.
• Channels — the installed apps as an icon grid, pulled from the TV; tap to launch.
• A real keyboard — type into whatever field has focus on the TV. Search boxes and sign-in forms stop being a d-pad ordeal.
• Desktop shortcuts — arrows, Enter, Backspace, Escape.

A browser can't open the raw UDP socket SSDP discovery needs, and a TV doesn't send the headers a web page would need to talk to it cross-origin. So a tiny Node server sits on the same network and relays: the page talks to the server, the server talks to the TV, and nothing leaves the house. It checks every device address is a plain IPv4 address before it will reach for it.

Power off works everywhere. Power on only works on Roku TVs with Fast TV Start enabled — a streaming stick that's fully off has no way to wake itself over the network. The server has no login: it is meant for a home network, and anyone on that network could use it, the same as they could the TV's own protocol. Tested against a stand-in Roku that answers the same protocol; the real proof is the living-room TV.