Control iTunes/AppleTV

2012 · 2 replies · Features

This thread is a feature request from 2012, preserved from the original Roomie Remote forum. It reflects what users were asking for at the time — many requests from this era have since shipped in Roomie Remote X. See current compatibility for today's device support.

In short

The remote system sees AppleTV's as iTunes to be controlled... — Staff replied: “The recent Apple TV update last week does cause Apple TV to misidentify itself as iTunes. We will ignore that in the next release of Roomie.”

Question 2012-10 · older version

The remote system sees AppleTV's as iTunes to be controlled... but then you cannot pair them because there is no way to make AppleTV perform the pairing

Member 2012-10 · older version

Why can you not just co-opt the Apple Remote app and call upon it as needed?

Roomie Staff 2012-10 · older version

The recent Apple TV update last week does cause Apple TV to misidentify itself as iTunes. We will ignore that in the next release of Roomie. Meanwhile, nothing has actually changed and instructions for iTunes remain the same:

roomieremote.com/faq/#itunes

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