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layout: page
title: "Apple TV Remote"
description: "Instructions how to integrate Apple TV remote into Home Assistant."
date: 2017-06-26 20:50
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ha_category: Remote
ha_iot_class: "Local Push"
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The `apple_tv` remote platform allows you to send remote control buttons to an Apple TV. It is automatically setup when an Apple TV is configured, please see [Apple TV Component](/components/apple_tv/) for configuration details.

At the moment, the following buttons are supported:

- up
- down
- left
- right
- menu
- top_menu
- select

A typical service call for press several buttons looks like this.

```yaml
service: remote.send_command
data:
  entity_id: remote.apple_tv
  command:
    - left
    - left
    - menu
    - select
  device: ''
```

Please note that `device` must be specified (because of validation) but is not used by this platform. So you may specify any value.
