aTV RC
an Apple TV Remote made for Android
Details
- External ID
- 1260194
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- aTV RC
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Android, Apple TV
- Fetched at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and device utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- apple tv remote controller for android users
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 114 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #60 of 115 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 279 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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