Apple TV


The apple_tv remote platform allows you to send remote control buttons to an Apple TV. It is automatically setup when an Apple TV is configured, please see Apple TV Component for configuration details.

At the moment, the following buttons are supported:

  • up
  • down
  • left
  • right
  • menu
  • top_menu
  • select

A typical service call for press several buttons looks like this.

service: remote.send_command
data:
  entity_id: remote.apple_tv
  command:
    - left
    - left
    - menu
    - select
  device: ''

Please note that device must be specified (because of validation) but is not used by this platform. So you may specify any value.