Apple TV 4k not found

Configuration
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Hi,

I’m a excited new home assistant user and currently trying to install my Apple TV (4k) in home assistant.

I followed the instructions, home sharing is enabled (I followed the instructions for iOS here). However, HA does not find my Apple TV. I then tried atvremote: installation with pip worked find on my linux machine. But I get a “command not found” error when I try to run atvremote.

Any advice what I could try to set the Apple TV up?

2

I can only add mine, by setting the Appletv component in the configuration.yaml, and there define the host: ip

3

Hm, if I just enter the IP, I get the following error message:
Failed config apple_tv: - Invalid config for [apple_tv]: required key not provided @ data[‘apple_tv’][0][‘login_id’]. Got None.

4

You are absolutely right. That’s my bad. Thought I could remember everything in my head. Last time I readded my Apple TV I just entered its new up in my secrets.yaml and forgot that the login id was set in configutation.yaml.

I got my if a year ago, through the method you mention, but I also cannot rewoke it with the atvremote

5

Thanks for trying to help. Adding the Apple TV would really be an awesome feature. I hope someone else has an idea what I can try.

6

Figured it out! atvremote didn’t work, as the binary is in ~/.local/bin, which was not in the path => added it.

atvremote scan found the ATV, but reported home sharing was off. I turned it on and off a couple of times, restartet the ATV. Now it seems to work…

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Did you do anything special to get the scan to work? Mine seems broken. It used to work but now just provides an error.

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No, I added “apple_tv:” to the config and went back and forth to activate home sharing (I think what worked: deactivate home sharing, restart Apple TV, activate home sharing).