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And it was an extremely hacky approach - it did not really scratch my itch of optimizing things but rather seemed like an incredibly contrived and over-complicated mechanism.
While this worked surprisingly well, it still had some occasional hiccups.
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In a desperate attempt to finally end this quest, I've installed the Philips TV remote app on an old unused Android phone which I was controlling remotely through an HTTP request to toggle "Ambilight + Hue". You can still do some stuff like starting apps remotely and, in some cases, even opening a specific view in a given app, but I still could not find a way to control "Ambilight + Hue". Since this is an Android TV, it means we can potentially connect through adb (android debug bridge), get access to shell and do whatever the hell we want with our TV, right? Not really: we don't have root, so we don't have the rights to modify required files. While this allowed me to discover some new API endpoints, controlling "Ambilight + Hue" was still a mystery. 
#Philips smart tv malaysia how to#
I was so desperate to make this work that I've googled how to decompile Android apps.
Then there is an official Philips TV remote app for iOS/Android, which has this "Ambilight + Hue" toggle. There were some community efforts to reverse-engineer it, but ultimately there was no known way of toggling this setting through the API. Then I've discovered some kind of API in the TV, however there is no documentation available. In general, this works, but it takes quite a lot of time to go through all these menus and the lack of feedback from TV combined with it's occasional lags resulted that in a lot of cases I've accidentally ended up in wrong menus and toggled completely different settings. 
The first idea was to write a simple script for an IR transmitter that would send a sequence of required TV remote button presses to get to the right menu setting and toggle it. Here's what I've tried to quickly toggle "Ambilight + Hue":
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