aTV RC
an Apple TV Remote made for Android
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aTV RC connects directly to your Apple TV without requiring a companion app, account, or external server. Beyond the essential remote controls, aTV RC can launch apps, control media, and even cast directly from your Android device over your local network. The goal is simple: make Apple TV feel just as convenient to use for Android users as it does within the Apple ecosystem.
PH · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: remote desktop and control software · 115 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▲ +31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Apple TV
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Could you build this?
Partial An Android remote UI is simple, but reverse-engineering Apple's proprietary local network protocols (AirPlay, MRP/MediaRemote, companion pairing, and SRP authentication) without official SDKs is technically intricate.
What it would actually take: The app requires Kotlin on Android using mDNS/Bonjour (ZeroConf) for Apple TV network discovery. The complex piece is implementing Apple's proprietary pairing and control protocols (HomeKit Accessory Protocol / MRP / MediaRemote / Companion Protocol), which involve Secure Remote Password (SRP) authentication, Ed25519/Curve25519 cryptographic handshakes, and proprietary binary protobufs over TLS sockets, typically requiring reverse-engineered open-source libraries like pyatv as a blueprint.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 687 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #609 of 688 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 268 days after the earliest competitor.
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- mactv · github · 2026-10-25 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Universal TV Remote Control · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Tuned · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- OpenTV-Cast · github · 2026-10-24 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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