Playback control on Apple TV

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Hi,

I tried to control plex on my apple tv remotely, but whenever I send a http command, it doesn’t recognize it (but the same command works fine on others players like android or plex home theater).

Here is an example of a command I send :
http://ip:port/player/navigation/home?X-Plex-Target-Client-Identifier=clientId

And as a reply, I get :
[kRemoteControlRouterErrorDomain] Unknown command ‘home’ for controller ‘navigation’ (1)

Is there a specific way to control the apple tv app ?
Does the command specify here https://github.com/Arcanemagus/plex-api/wiki/Plex-Web-API-Overview works with the apple tv too ?

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If you look at /clients on your PMS, you’ll see that AppleTV doesn’t “navigation” under protocolCapabilities.

My local clients:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Right now, I’m trying to get /player/playback/pause working, but it’s telling me I’ve got the wrong X-Plex-Target-Client-Identifier

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Further tinkering with the current version of AppleTV tells me that it doesn’t support remote control at all, that it has been recently broken. I’ve gone back to RasPlex as a player platform.