The good news: you don’t need to jailbreak if you’re running 5.2 or 5.3… you should be able to recreate his success fairly easily. Using a jailbroken AppleTV, was able to do a fair bit of detective work and found a way to enable the ‘Add Site’ option, which allowed him to use his Raspberry Pi as a media server. Unfortunately, the method for adding new sites isn’t enabled by default. So using fairly simply methods, the options really open up. Using XML and Javascript, the apps simply define library function calls, giving them a consistent interface. It turns out, the applications are nothing more than glorified web plugins. That said, decided to look closer at how the various ‘applications’ work. Apple keeps tight control over what runs on their devices. You may tend to think of the AppleTV as a sort of walled garden, and you would mostly be right. You can check out the video of ’s project typing text into an Apple TV hilariously fast below.Ĭontinue reading “Fixing Apple TV’s Terrible UI” → Posted in Arduino Hacks, Mac Hacks Tagged apple tv, Apple TV remote, arduino, mac remote The web UI has all the features found on the Apple TV remote, including the swipe gestures, and has a really slick brushed metal texture to boot. He’s hosting a simple website on the Arduino that allows him to type – with a real keyboard – a search query into the website, and have the Arduino take care of moving the Apple TV cursor around to select each letter. The web UI is the innovative part of this build.
Inspired by the Apple Remote Arduino Shield we featured a few years ago, stuck an IR LED int the pins of Arduino with an Ethernet shield, current limiting resistors be damned. His solution was to build his own version of the Apple TV remote with a web interface, powered by an Arduino.
was frustrated with this design and realized searching anything with the Apple TV IR remote is a pain. It’s an alphabetical keyboard, laid out in a square with the obvious frustration that goes along with that terrible idea. The latest of these is the ‘keyboard’ for the search interface in the Apple TV. Despite Apple’s unfailing dedication to UI, they still sometimes manage to put out some stinkers.
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