Apple TV

Hello everyone, I have created an Apple TV Plugin that basically can do all the things that you want the limited vanilla integration of an Apple TV into HomeKit to do. I would love to get some feedback here or in the GitHub issues if you are experiencing problems or have feature requests. Note that the plugin does only support Linux based systems. You might get it to run on other systems but I do not support that. Please read the requirements in the README on GitHub before installing. It is called homebridge-appletv-enhanced. The key features are the following: Automatically discover Apple …

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Oh, fair bet that if you’re running homebridge you have an AppleTV, HomePod, or both. If it’s an AppleTV, I’m digging the Apple TV Enhanced plugin that maxleith is actively developing now. Check that out for aTV <> HomeKit functionality that Apple inexplicably doesn’t provide.

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I've created two dummy cameras, one with this plugin and one with the ffmpeg homebridge plugin. In the logs I can see, that the ffmpeg plugin responds immediately when I swipe to the Camera on the Apple TV, doesn't matter on which interface. The website to camera plugin shows me the logs only when I open it on my iPhone (but also shows me a "No Response" watermark).

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homebridge-dacp for Apple TV. Or if you use Plex you can use homebridge-plex-sensors just for Plex. homebridge-dacp creates switch and homebridge-plex-sensors creates occupancy sensor you can automate around.

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there is one use case that i like with this plugin... THEATER LIGHTS. when you hit play or pause on the remotes, i like the state of the lights to change to reflect me watching something no matter what app i am in. the idea is, you can use the state of the plugin to control other parts of your home.

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The Apple TV plugin gets a meh. Play, Pause, Resume and Stop are dependable, everything else is meh. But what I'm working towards is 100% control via Alexa. And am looking at having Alexa do everything with the new IOS 12.2 TV features

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No homebridge plugin works since iOS15 because Apple changed the protocol. However, you can still make on/off along with having Apple TV reporting the right state (on or off) by doing a workaround. I've posted it somewhere else so I will just copy and paste what I have done to make it work for you here. &#x200B; I just want to share my way of solution after playing around with you guys methods for hours. I think it's the easiest way for me and it's already suit all my use case. However, I just have to pre-inform first that my method will only work with 'On/Off' and also reporting the correct …

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