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Starting/switching to AppleTV activity shows speaker select #31

Closed technicalpickles closed 6 years ago

technicalpickles commented 6 years ago

I've been observing this annoying bug when using my AppleTV. When switching to it, there's a prompt like:

Choose Music is a shortcut to listening to stuff on the AppleTV, but the other 2 are AirPlay outputs. I've accidentally selected the Denon (my receive) which has AirPlay, and it causes the receive to switch to that and only show audio 🤷‍♂️

I'm not even sure what brings up this prompt, but the Harmony activity must be triggering it somehow.

technicalpickles commented 6 years ago

It only happens when you are on the Apple TV home screen, but not if you are in an app 🤔

technicalpickles commented 6 years ago

It looks like Harmony is trying to "power off" the AppleTV. I'm not sure what that is sending under the hood yet to cause that, but it might be unnecessary because AppleTV has it's own sleep settings.

Here's one way to avoid:

I suspect the downside of these is that this might not actually stop the AppleTV if it's playing 🤔

technicalpickles commented 6 years ago

With "No power buttons on my original remote" (which I suppose is try) seems to at least pause the currently playing thing.

Calling this "fixed", and documented over in https://github.com/technicalpickles/picklehome/wiki/Apple-TV