Binding for Apple-TV

[OMR (Ole Morten Rønning)]

Great work!
I will test it now.
Was just about to sit down and have another go, but you beat me to it .

@garvank

Important caveat: This edit will be wiped every time OpenHAB restarts because that folder gets re-extracted from the binding JAR. If it works, we’ll need to figure out a way to make it persistent — but let’s confirm it fixes the issue first.

I believe AI is hallucinating here, because I’m fairly certain this openhab/tmp folder is populated by these manual steps we have to do every time there is a new OH version. Regular restarts should be OK.

OH_HOME=/var/lib/openhab
sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/openhab/tmp
python3 -m venv $OH_HOME/tmp/appletv-binding
source $OH_HOME/tmp/appletv-binding/bin/activate
pip3 install git+https://git.sr.ht/~hww3/pyatv

Edit:

Only difference is that my python version was 3.12 instead of 3.11

[OMR (Ole Morten Rønning)]

@hww3

Maybe some adventurous soul with a spare AppleTV wants to be a hero to the rest of the world?

No hero and not a spare per se, but I have a second ATV4k in my basement den with no current automations, but connected to OH. I could, from now on do updates on that one first, and post here whether new updates are OK or not.

[Michael_Walther]

Worked for me as well. Thx!

[OMR (Ole Morten Rønning)]

Others experiencing stale channel updates lately?
After turning on with remote, hours later power channel shows off.
Disabling and reenabling updates to true state again.
I’m on 5.2.0M2

[Jacek_Kaczmarczyk (Jacek Ka)]

not sure when it happened but my instance has errors rigtht now and i cant fix them

Version: 5.1.4 (Build)

2026-06-13 14:04:22.250 [WARN ] [ding.appletv.internal.AppleTVHandler] - Pairing failed: 2026-06-13 14:04:21 ERROR [pyatv.protocols.companion]: Could not fetch SystemStatus, power_state will not work (Command FetchAttentionState failed)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/asyncio/tasks.py", line 507, in wait_for
    return await fut
           ^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/asyncio/locks.py", line 213, in wait
    await fut
asyncio.exceptions.CancelledError

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/openhab/tmp/appletv-binding/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/api.py", line 172, in _send_command
    resp = await self._protocol.exchange_opack(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    ...<6 lines>...
    )
    ^
  File "/var/lib/openhab/tmp/appletv-binding/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/protocol.py", line 153, in exchange_opack
    return await self._exchange_generic_opack(frame_type, data, identifier, timeout)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/lib/openhab/tmp/appletv-binding/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/protocol.py", line 166, in _exchange_generic_opack
    unpacked_object = await self._queues[identifier].wait(timeout)
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/lib/openhab/tmp/appletv-binding/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/support/collections.py", line 161, in wait
    await asyncio.wait_for(self._event.wait(), timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/asyncio/tasks.py", line 506, in wait_for
    async with timeouts.timeout(timeout):
               ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.13/asyncio/timeouts.py", line 116, in __aexit__
    raise TimeoutError from exc_val
TimeoutError

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/openhab/tmp/appletv-binding/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/__init__.py", line 219, in initialize
    system_status = await self.api.fetch_attention_state()
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/lib/openhab/tmp/appletv-binding/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/api.py", line 439, in fetch_attention_state
    resp = await self._send_command("FetchAttentionState", {})
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/var/lib/openhab/tmp/appletv-binding/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pyatv/protocols/companion/api.py", line 183, in _send_command
    raise exceptions.ProtocolError(f"Command {identifier} failed") from ex
pyatv.exceptions.ProtocolError: Command FetchAttentionState failed
12:54:B9:78:AA:8B

[OMR (Ole Morten Rønning)]

@hww3
Any chance you could share your latest binding source? (5.0.1)
Or if you already did, where can i find it?

Thanks.

[hww3 (Bill Welliver)]

Hello-

The source is located at:

~hww3/org.openhab.binding.appletv - sourcehut git

I’m traveling this week, but should be able to spend a little time looking at this when I return mid-next-week.

[OMR (Ole Morten Rønning)]

Thanks, but both I and my AI agent is at a loss as to how to build a jar from this source.
AI claims it can only find version 4.3.2, but I am currently running version 5.0.1 of the binding.
Any pointers?

[hww3 (Bill Welliver)]

The code for both versions is the same, it’s just that the openhab it’s built against is different.

~hww3/org.openhab.binding.appletv - sourcehut git

I’m currently out of town for work, but will be back home in a few days and can try to get an up-to-date version prepared for testing.