Apple TV for Home Assistant (built-in integration)

About

Apple TV is a built-in Home Assistant integration that connects to Apple TV devices over the local network. It provides media player and remote control entities, plus a binary sensor that reports keyboard focus. Actions let automations append, clear or set the text in whichever text input field is currently focused on the Apple TV. Home Assistant can discover the device on the network and offer to add it, and setup runs in the interface with pairing by PIN code. An option controls whether the device is turned on when Home Assistant starts.

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Supports

Works locally Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between.
Set up in the UI Add it in Settings, Devices and services. Nothing to download.
Found by itself Home Assistant spots it on the network and offers to add it.
Updated with Home Assistant Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

Provides

Media
Remotes

Setting it up

Home Assistant usually finds it on the network and offers to add it. It can also be added by hand under Settings, Devices and services.

Set up a new Apple TV

Device

Pairing

PIN code

After setup

Do not turn device on when starting Home Assistant

Texts from Home Assistant's source code, Apache License 2.0.

Entities

Binary sensorsKeyboard focus

Actions

Append keyboard textAppends text to the currently focused text input field on an Apple TV.Fields: Apple TV, Text
Clear keyboard textClears the text in the currently focused text input field on an Apple TV.Fields: Apple TV
Set keyboard textSets the text in the currently focused text input field on an Apple TV.Fields: Apple TV, Text