Currently, the Apple TV integration has an “app_id” attribute that reports the currently active app. But, if I switch to another app, it does not seem to update that attribute until I start playing content. Can you please add the currently selected app as a new “source” attribute or just update the app_id code to depict the currently selected app regardless of the state?
Nope, not possible unfortunately as the API towards the Apple TV does not work that way. Otherwise that would have been how I would have implemented it.
Where would I request that of Apple on the slight chance they might care about a request like that?
Everything in regard of communication is reverse engineered protocols, so no one except for apple is really leveraging these features officially. As far as I know, apple does not present (or have any concept) of currently active app, so I unfortunately doubt they will add it. Anyways, I have no idea where to ask for it.
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