I bought an Echo for that purpose, was tired of waiting for Apple to integrate voice home automation.
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Apple Releases Redesigned 'Apple TV Remote' App for iPhone
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Huh? Are you thinking two sw versions ago? It will not do anything unless you press the button
Here's one issue: WPA2-PSK (the encryption most home users use for their Wifi network) is susceptible to offline dictionary attacks. What this means is that you need to use a long and random string of characters as your passphrase if you want to secure your network, and it's obviously not very fun to enter such strings using the Apple TV remote. It's not a problem for the initial setup (since you can use an iPhone to "beam" the credentials to the ATV via Bluetooth), but very unpleasant if you later want to connect the ATV to another network or just change the passphrase.
I have an atv 3, will this new app change/add anything. (I am not near my ATV3 currently, so just asking if anybody knows)
The Old remote app was useful enough for normal jobs, even it used to detect and open the keyboard and let me type in when required.
The Old remote app was useful enough for normal jobs, even it used to detect and open the keyboard and let me type in when required.
What functionality could an iPad version of the app provide? The iPhone version works fine on iPad.
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OTOH, Services like Apple Music are making up for slowing iPhone sales...
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Why didn't I think of that? Thanks! Apple should have thought of that and included it.
At least they seem to have finaly managed to implemet a keyboard feature...about eff-ing time.
So if my wife is logged into her account on the phone and the Apple TV is logged into my account it will not work?
Except the 'hockey puck' mouse wasn't actually anywhere near as bad as people made out it to be…
If you had one of the (majority) with the depression/notch added to the button - that really helped you to ensure it was oriented the correct way, and if you held it between thumb & finger instead of trying to rest your palm on it, it worked great - very precise & easy to use!
No, it really was a POS. I had to use them in the lab at university so I didn't have a choice and it would infuriate me constantly.
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The old one had a keyboard too.
I honestly loved it. Loved the colour accent 'soft touch' plastic insets on the sides of the mouse, too.
Loved the attention to detail of the half & half colouring of the mouse ball.
Agree to disagree?!
Oh, I didn't know...probably haven't checked back to the remote app since I got the atv4 as it did not feature a keyboard back then, which made it pretty useless for me.
Thanks for pointing it out, cheers mate.
I forgot to download this the other week. Will have to give it a try this weekend and hope I like it better than the physical Siri remote, which I just loathe. I'm not a big fan of the UI on the ATV 4 and have been using the ATV 3 more often because of it.
Sorry if this was asked before but with the new remote app, the touch pad doesn't work, I can't swipe in any direction but it registers taps and all the onscreen buttons work. I tried restarting the app, the ATV4, deleting and reinstalling the app, nothing works. The physical remote works. So it's really just the swipes that don't register. Any idea?
I was hoping to play the tennis game in multiplayer mode on the aTV with my phone and remote connected....will two player mode be possible in the future on Wii like games on the aTV?