AppleTV Press and Hold

Third party integrations
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Hi, I’m integrating my Apple TV using Home Assistant. Under the hood it seems to use Postlund’s PyATV. I was trying to figure out how to “hold” a button using the api, and found in this thread how to do that.

left=X
Where X=0 for single tap, X=1 for double tap and X=2 for holding

Unfortunately I can’t seem to provide “left=2” as a command with the remote service call. “left” works, but as soon as I add “=2” it no longer functions.

Does anyone know how to do this or who I might reach out to for filing a bug (if it is)?

Thanks!
Scott Shanafelt

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It is supported by pyatv as you have figure out but it is currently not implemented in Home Assistant. So someone would have to do that, unfortunately I don’t have time to fix that right now. But some day maybe, unless someone else beats me to it.

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Thanks for for the response. Hopefully someone tackles this!

Scott

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