can i control apple tv from my macbook? -- verification needed!

Add me to the wish-list too. I have an Onkyo receiver that I have attached to the Apple TV. The receiver has much better sound than most of my audio equipment and play in multiple rooms. It's my personal wall-of-sound. Plus why leave a TV running in an empty room?

My ideal OSX app would control the Apple TV and provide the same visual features as the IOS Remote app - current track with album art, whats up next list option along with selectors for albums, artist, playlist etc. Of the Apps for OSX, I think that Air Squirrels might have the programming chops to make this happen. Here are screen shots of my iPod touch running in the Reflector Airplay emulator on my Mac Pro.

Yeah there is a real need for this!

Type2phone works excellent for controlling an AppleTV. In the preferences, you should uncheck "Disconnect when sent to the background". This will eliminate any kind of latency when bringing Type2phone back to the foreground.

Here is the link :

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type2phone/id472717129?mt=12

This is exactly what everyone in this post is looking for. Thanks Chrisjn for the great app...it costs $7 to go pro (which allows unlimited typing and devices) but I found out using only navagation keys has no effect on your daily usage %

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1keyboard/id766939888?ls=1&mt=12

Here's another person who found this thread because of wanting to control an AppleTV with my MacBook. I'm happy to have found the 3rd Party "1Keyboard" app through this thread.

It's currently available in the App Store for $4.99, it does what I want and I'm very happy to have found it. The price feels totally reasonable to me. You can get it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1keyboard/id766939888?mt=12

Just for the record. I would like to navigate the apple tv from my laptop.

• Pointer accuracty
• Full physical keyboard
• Browser access

For exmaple, I would love to copy and paste from my browser the title of a movie into netflix for ATV; and so on.

1. open safari mobile
2. research a movie on imdb or whatever
3. find a movie you want to watch
4. press and hold on the movie's title to copy
5. open the 'remote' app for ATV
6. use remove app to navigate to netflix's search
7. press and hold in search field in remote app
8. paste movie title
9. hit search
10. ATV native netflix app searches for movie previous researched in mobile safari

An update was just released that lets you pair a bluetooth keyboard. You can mirror your computer (natively on a 2011 or later Mac with 10.8 or via 3rd party software) for browser access. Not sure what you mean by pointer accuracty.

It's not meant to be tied to a computer in that manner. A browser would also need to be available on the device for that functionality. I never said no one, I said most wouldn't want to. By the way, this thread is from 2 years ago.

Anyway, connect a computer if you want that function.

I found this thread because I was searching for an app that would let me navigate the apple tv from osx. So there is desire, even if you don't think its "meant to." Attaching a computer would not allow me to copy from a web browser and paste into the native netfix client on apple tv.

I can think of many use cases, not to harp on this one. Sorry.

I meant attaching a computer would allow for more of what you're looking for. How would one paste from a web browser into the native Netflix app without there being a browser on the device itself?

Apart from the bundled remote, there is the IOS app and now keyboard support. Really the only direct input is navigating the screens and typing. Anything else is through mirroring, not communicating with the native apps.

You may be able to think of many use cases and may have desire but most don't. You are the first i've seen looking for it anyway.

Point taken.

To any answer your one remaining question. I would have the browser on my laptop and paste to the native apple tv app via my osx remote.

Basically it would be like copying from safari mobile to the apple tv's native app via the remote app on ios.

There isn't much of a need so I don't see it happening but you can feel free to give direct feedback

https://www.google.ca/search?q=apple+feedback&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=saf ari