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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon homebridge

Support for channel up and down tv remote

Open ferensw opened this issue 3 years ago • 11 comments
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Current Situation

The channel up/down buttons for the tv remote are not available. This is new in ios 15 for the apple tv remote in the control centre.

Proposed Change

Support for the channel up/down buttons in the new ios 15 remote. An addition of a Buttontype.

Additional Context

No response

ferensw avatar Apr 15 '22 16:04 ferensw

Like this:

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ferensw avatar Apr 15 '22 16:04 ferensw

I think this layout is only for apple tv (and maybe official certified tvs with siri?) and not for tv accessories

seydx avatar Apr 17 '22 07:04 seydx

It’s AppleTV only. The Remote widget shows my new Sony TV with native HomeKit support just like the Homebridge TV accessories.

ebaauw avatar Apr 17 '22 10:04 ebaauw

Thanks for clearing this out. It's just a pity that the most used function of a tv remote (channel up/down) is not available. Or maybe I'm just to old-skool...

ferensw avatar Apr 18 '22 09:04 ferensw

For Homebridge TVs, you can map these to the up and down, or to the left and right “buttons”.

ebaauw avatar Apr 18 '22 10:04 ebaauw

iOS 17 - Channel Up/Down and Menu buttons are in all TVs now (i wish it isn’t just beta bug) How to use HAP to catch the press of those? IMG_0168 IMG_0167

thelofts avatar Jun 23 '23 00:06 thelofts

Is that a HAP-NodJS based TV you are showing?

We have lost if known Keys/Buttons here https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/blob/9c9bd7101b2ab520a237c09da8017d18a5c2c7cc/src/lib/definitions/CharacteristicDefinitions.ts#L3078

there are some blanks we don’t know yet about (12-14)

this defines which keys are supported https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/blob/9c9bd7101b2ab520a237c09da8017d18a5c2c7cc/src/lib/definitions/CharacteristicDefinitions.ts#L3088. If channel keys don’t show with current HAP-NodeJS versions they are maybe located at >15 key ids.

bauer-andreas avatar Jun 29 '23 14:06 bauer-andreas

Do we have any update here?

tavicu avatar Oct 20 '23 09:10 tavicu

Following. Be interested to see an update that might allow leveraging these newly exposed items

n0rt0nthec4t avatar Nov 23 '23 02:11 n0rt0nthec4t

I did set the Accessibility setting and am now seeing channel buttons for my Sonos TV as well as for the TVs from Homebriige ZP. They don't seem to do anything, though (iOS 17.6.1 on my iPad). When pressing the Channel Up button, the Arrow Down button activates (which it also does when pressing that area on the widget without the accessibility area. When pressing the Channel Down button, nothing happens.

ebaauw avatar Aug 14 '24 10:08 ebaauw