home_hold no longer working with Apple TV

[JeroenTuinstra]

The problem

The command home_hold doesn't seem to work anymore with tvOS 17.1. It simply ignores the command. No errors anywhere. Would be great if we could just a on/off command for the power button on the remote. It seems as if the home_hold now works as the home button. The issue is that I would like to set the Apple TV in standby. I just to send the command home_hold and then select. Now when you press the home button on the remote it opens up a top menu and you have to click select twice to switch it off. Not sure how to now switch off apple tv with the remote integration.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2023.12.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

Apple TV

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/apple_tv

Diagnostics information

config_entry-fritz-e808f7ed2d0a6b7dc77f316f73672629.json.txt

Example YAML snippet

service: remote.send_command
target:
  entity_id: remote.apple_tv_living_room
data:
  command:
    - home_hold
    - select
    - select
  delay_secs: 1
  hold_secs: 2

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

No response

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[JeroenTuinstra]

So the home_hold still does not work, but the command suspend will switch off the Apple TV. I don't know if home_hold is usefull for anything else, so I'll keep it open as that command doesn't seem to do anything.

[jianyu-li]

Came here to post the same thing, home_hold no longer works. I use it in my automation to open the menu and get to my cameras

[vturekhanov]

So the home_hold still does not work, but the command suspend will switch off the Apple TV. I don't know if home_hold is usefull for anything else, so I'll keep it open as that command doesn't seem to do anything.

home_hold command is useful for access to homekit cameras. At the moment I have no idea how to do that without home_hold.

I used the following sequence:

- home_hold
- left
- down

[postlund]

home_hold and shall not be used and will be replaced by passing a hold delay to home instead, one this PR is merged:

https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/105764

[JeroenTuinstra]

So do I understand correctly that home_hold is removed before the solution is implemented? I did see the hold so many seconds option, but it didn’t do anything. And also it seems applied to all the commands. So in a sequence that would mean all the buttons in the sequence are held those seconds. That could create perhaps some problems.

So did anyone get the home button working with the new delay setting resulting in a home_hold?

[postlund]

The PR is not merged not available in any release yet. Once it is, home_hold will be part of a breaking change. That particular command was added before input actions were added to pyatv and really a mistake. So this will fix that.

[JeroenTuinstra]

But just for anyone following this threat, home_hold no longer works and there is not replacement command yet. Just to be clear.

[philtarry]

Has this issue been resolved yet?

[LOTRtelcontar]

I’m hoping to get this working again as well! I used to have an automation where I could press and button and a specific HomeKit camera would pull up on the Apple TV, but without home_hold I can’t find a way to make it work. Is there any temporary code I can add to my config to get it working? Need anyone to test something?

[sayam93]

home_hold and shall not be used and will be replaced by passing a hold delay to home instead, one this PR is merged:

105764

Have they merged the PR yet?

[Liu55i]

Just started to control my Apple TV (17.5.1) with Home Assistant. Had a similar problem with "home" and "hold_secs" - it just didn't hold the home button. With the latest Update of HA (2024.6.3) i can hold the home button with node red/call service:

{"entity_id":"remote.yourappletv","command":"home","delay_secs":1,"hold_secs":1}

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[LOTRtelcontar]

Using “home” with a hold sec of 1 works for me.