Apple TV Sleep Support

Feature Requests
1

Feature Description:
Many users (such as myself) have an Apple TV 4k (A1842 (32 GB)) running 12.1 tvOS and have it CEC enabled with a television & receiver. This makes for a simple 1 remote setup to turn on the Receiver, TV and Apple TV. It also makes for a simple 1 remote setup to turn off the TV, Receiver and sleep the Apple TV.

As a user, I would like to have Home Assistant support sleeping my Apple TV, which would thus turn off my TV & Receiver.

Currently the Apple TV component does not support this.

Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.):
Docker

Component/platform:

Only Workaround:
The only workaround presently is a convoluted sequence of left/down/select options in a script; which is not stable (often doesn’t work).

apple_tv_off:
  alias: Apple TV Off
  sequence:
  - data:
      entity_id: media_player.onkyo_receiver_zone2
    service: media_player.turn_off
  - data:
      command: top_menu
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - delay: 0:00:02
  - data:
      command: top_menu
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - delay: 0:00:02
  - data:
      command: left
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: left
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: left
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: left
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: select
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - delay: 0:00:02
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: down
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command
  - data:
      command: select
      entity_id: remote.living_room_apple_tv
    service: remote.send_command

Relevant configuration.yaml entry:

apple_tv:
  - host: 192.X.X.X
    login_id: !secret apple_tv
    name: Living Room Apple TV
    start_off: true

Additional information:
Is it possible to begin integrating some of the latest changes from here?

Related Issues:


2

This is one of the most requested features and I would add it directly if someone figured out a way to do it reliably (and working with CEC). But as of today it is not possible AFAIK.

3

on this part what do you put in the login ID please

apple_tv:
  - host: 192.X.X.X
    login_id: !secret apple_tv
    name: Living Room Apple TV
    start_off: true

is it the identifier? IE

       Name: Bedroom
    Address: 192.168.0.21
Identifiers:
 - EBC060DF-DD08-3572-B89C-6B58E0BDF8D3
 - SC:46:E7:3D:B1:22
4

These are not compatible versions. The latter one is based on pyatv 0.4.x while the first one is pyatv 0.3.x (which is the one bundled with home Assistant). I recommend that you try out the beta component:

5

thats awesome that just worked straight away!
I want to control the boxes now but I’ve added a few different remotes but don’t seem to give me a lot of control to be honest just like a play pause button!
do you have full menu control ?

6

ive seen something like this service: remote.send_command

entity_id: remote.apple_tv 
  command:
    - left
    - left
    - menu
    - select

but mine seems to be media_player.living_room so not so sure ?

and where would I put the code in my config?

7

For each device you add, you get one media_player and one remote, e.g. media_player.living_room and remote.living_room. The remote entity is only for sending button presses (you cannot do that with the media player).

You can look at the interface to get an up-to-date list of supported buttons:

You can send all buttons from RemoteControl except for the once named set_.... It works exactly like you wrote here.

1 Like
8

so do I have to add this code ?

9

Nah, you can just look at all lines with def, e.g. def up(self): means you can send up and so on.