New buttons available in iOS 17 for the remote

[sfDuhNinja]

Hi,

I am running the latest Dev Build of iOS 17 and I discovered that the remote has new buttons: Power and Mute. Screenshot attached. Also, I found an option in Settings > Accessibility to show on the remote the Guide and CH+/CH- buttons.

If you need someone to test the binding of these new buttons, please let me know :)

Thanks

[tavicu]

Hi.

I have installed iOS 17 on one device to check it up and it looks like the buttons (mute and power) are disabled for all custom TVs (just like in your screenshot).

For now they are enabled only for Apple TVs from what I can see.

My guess is they are not implemented by Apple or that they will be removed for custom TVs in a future beta.

Regarding the channel and guide buttons, I have activated them but for now they are not reporting any event so I can catch it and do something. Maybe Apple is not reporting it or homebridge (hap-nodejs) is not yet updated to report it.

I will follow future releases and implement it as soon as I will be able to do it.

For reference from hap-nodejs, looks like the buttons are not implemented for now: https://github.com/homebridge/HAP-NodeJS/blob/93a9743c6ae5b6ba3cb4949ef418341234812226/src/lib/definitions/CharacteristicDefinitions.ts#L3067-L3079

homebridge/HAP-NodeJS#941

[awahlig]

I’m on iOS 17.2.1 and the new buttons are enabled and can be pressed for a TV added using the plugin. They do nothing right now and I don’t see any messages in Homebridge log when I press them.

I tried to remap them in the config using MUTE and POWER (just guessing the names) but nothing.

— edit —
It looks like the buttons start off disabled but if I press on the TV’s name twice to open and close the dropdown, they enable. Could be an iOS bug.

[tamasharasztosi]

Is there any news regarding this topic?
From the "Remote" app these buttons are active, from widget view they're still getting active with double pressing on them.
Thank you!

[jdebardi]

As of ios18 the mute/power buttons seem to work for non Apple TV devices

I can't get the guide/channel buttons to even show up via the accessibility option though