How to pull icons off your Roku device - a tutorial
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:35 pm
Hi all,
My venerable RCRP05B is starting to fail after 7 long years of abuse (kids) and I grabbed myself a Nevo C2 off ebay. One thing I wanted to do was use the actual Roku icons for the soft buttons and I found a way to get them directly from the device using only your web browser!
1) find the IP address of your Roku in Settings -> Network -> About (may slightly differ depending on device, I only have a Roku TV)
2) Enter the following address in your web browser of choice:
http://yourRokuIPaddress:8060/query/apps
It will return a list of the apps currently installed on your Roku. Here's part of mine:
and so on. Note the id attribute after the apps you're interested in.
3) Open another tab and enter:
http://yourRokuIPaddress:8060/query/icon/[b]id of the icon you want[/b]
So if I want the icon for antenna TV, I'd put in
http://yourRokuIPaddress:8060/query/icon/tvinput.dtv
And voila! You're given a 290 x 218 transparent PNG of the icon used in the Roku menus, ready to be resized, edited, and loaded into your RMIR file. Do note you have to right click -> save as and change the file type to "All Files", then append ".png" to the end of the file name.
Merry Christmas!
My venerable RCRP05B is starting to fail after 7 long years of abuse (kids) and I grabbed myself a Nevo C2 off ebay. One thing I wanted to do was use the actual Roku icons for the soft buttons and I found a way to get them directly from the device using only your web browser!
1) find the IP address of your Roku in Settings -> Network -> About (may slightly differ depending on device, I only have a Roku TV)
2) Enter the following address in your web browser of choice:
http://yourRokuIPaddress:8060/query/apps
It will return a list of the apps currently installed on your Roku. Here's part of mine:
Code: Select all
<apps>
......
<app id="tvinput.hdmi2" type="tvin" version="1.0.0">Computer</app>
<app id="tvinput.dtv" type="tvin" version="1.0.0">Antenna TV</app>
<app id="13" subtype="ndka" type="appl" version="7.1.2017082110">Amazon Video</app>
....
</apps>
3) Open another tab and enter:
http://yourRokuIPaddress:8060/query/icon/[b]id of the icon you want[/b]
So if I want the icon for antenna TV, I'd put in
http://yourRokuIPaddress:8060/query/icon/tvinput.dtv
And voila! You're given a 290 x 218 transparent PNG of the icon used in the Roku menus, ready to be resized, edited, and loaded into your RMIR file. Do note you have to right click -> save as and change the file type to "All Files", then append ".png" to the end of the file name.
Merry Christmas!