I’m trying to figure out how to control my AppleTV via Home Assistant. There are only a few example scripts out there and they are both limited and dated. Here’s my first script attempt. I’m just trying to get it to consistently open the Infuse app.
xx_infuse:
sequence:
- service: remote.send_command
data:
entity_id: remote.apple_tv_livingroom
command:
- top_menu
- delay: 00:00:02
- service: remote.send_command
data:
entity_id: remote.apple_tv_livingroom
command:
- home
- delay: 00:00:02
- service: remote.send_command
data:
entity_id: remote.apple_tv_livingroom
command:
- select
First of all, I don’t see any documentation as to what the difference is between the menu, top_menu and home commands are. Can anyone explains what these commands do? I’m trying to get the what I call the Home screen. Unfortunately the “Home” command seems to take me to the AppleTV app, not the Home screen. Top_Menu and Menu seem to act differently depending on what app I’m currently in. If I’m in Netflix, the MENU command takes me to the Netflix Menu.
Finally, I can in some cases use a sequence like HOME,MENU that will get me to the Home screen…the problem then is that the Home screen seems to remember what icon your on. So I cannot write a script that sends HOME, MENU, RIGHT, RIGHT to get to the 3rd icon on the Home screen, because if I was last on the 2nd icon…RIGHT, RIGHT will take me to the 4th icon.
Can anyone show me a script that will always get me to the Home screen and icon #1 (top left icon)?
