# Playback control on Apple TV

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-control-on-apple-tv/141121>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** other-dev\
**Created:** [April 4, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-control-on-apple-tv/141121 "2016-04-04T16:03:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![thomasLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@thomasLD](https://forums.plex.tv/u/thomasLD)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-control-on-apple-tv/141121/1 "2016-04-04T16:03:40Z")

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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](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](https://github.com/Arcanemagus/plex-api/wiki/Plex-Web-API-Overview) works with the apple tv too ?

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**Author:** ![philion](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/philion/32/113120_2.png) [@philion](https://forums.plex.tv/u/philion)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-control-on-apple-tv/141121/2 "2016-06-29T02:41:40Z")

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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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**Author:** ![philion](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/philion/32/113120_2.png) [@philion](https://forums.plex.tv/u/philion)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-control-on-apple-tv/141121/3 "2016-06-29T18:05:26Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/playback-control-on-apple-tv/141121/4 "2020-01-08T19:56:47Z")

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