open-appleremote
Use the first-gen Apple Siri Remote (A1513/A1962) on Linux: unlock it, decode touch and buttons, tvOS-style gestures, a virtual keyboard. Pure-stdlib Python.
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Details
- External ID
- 1411586662
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- open-appleremote
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 227
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.94
- Tags
- apple-tv, bluetooth-low-energy, hid, linux, python, remote-control, siri-remote
Enrichment
- Niche
- hardware device drivers and utility software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- python driver for apple siri remote on linux
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This project requires reverse-engineering proprietary Bluetooth HID protocols and Apple peripheral pairing handshakes on Linux.
What it would actually take: The implementation relies on Linux Bluetooth sockets (BlueZ / HCI), raw HID report descriptor parsing, and implementing proprietary challenge-response or initialization sequences to unlock the Apple TV Siri Remote. It demands specialized knowledge of low-level Bluetooth packet capture, reverse-engineering undocumented hardware protocols, and virtual input injection via uinput in pure Python.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #9 of 121 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 245 days after the earliest competitor.
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