postlund
Simulating a “swipe left” or “swipe right”
What do you need help with?
I’ve created a custom universal remote with the help of pyatv - https://github.com/cleverdevil/pnut
Most things work wonderfully, but there is one last hurdle I haven’t been able to overcome. One of the streaming apps I use requires a “swipe left” action on the Siri Remote to reveal a critical piece of navigation. I can’t figure out how to simulate this with pyatv. Any ideas or pointers?
This is currently not supported, but I have an old issue for it (#267). I haven't paid much attention to it since no one has really requested this feature before, but it's certainly possible to do. I just need to take some traffic dumps and come up with an API. I might be able to come up with something next week or so.
Good to hear, thanks @postlund. Happy to test if and when you get to it.
Need "swipe up" as well! In tvOS, to access the task switcher you do quick double press of home... (home delay=250 home), then you can use left and right (or swipe left and swipe right) to select a particular app. To kill that app, you need to "swipe up" (up by itself doesn't seem to work). Without "swipe up" that functionality is blocked.
Hi @postlund do you have any updates to share ? Swipe functions would be really useful thanks
It would be great to make these gestures available, because some apps simply assume that they are available. Using these apps is then only possible in this way as a normal click has a different effect.
Hi @postlund ,
how can I help you on this ? how did you manage to sniff network requests to appletv ? And which protocol is used by the remote (at least the touchpad) ? Thanks