Access to microphone on Siri Remote in tvOS SDK?

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Created Sep ’15

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Is there a way to use the microphone in a Siri Remote within our own tvOS app? After a quick look through the Human Interface Guidelines and other high level documentation, it doesn't appear that it is possible.

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No, there's no API to access to the microphone.

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OP

Apple

Sep ’15

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No, there's no API to access to the microphone.

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krs1 OP

Sep ’15

More specifically, is there a way to integrate media into the Siri Search? IE if we had a media streaming app, can we have media be returned by a siri search?

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cwagdev OP

Sep ’15

Seems like a CoreSpotlight extension would make a lot of sense here...

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OP

Apple

Sep ’15

Please file a bug at bugreport.apple.com under tvOS SDK with the functionality you'd like to see.

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loretoparisi OP

Sep ’15

The answer is

"there is no API to access a mic device connected to the AppleTV" or "there is no API to access the mic on Siri Remote"?

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loretoparisi OP

Sep ’15

Yes that is confirmed by aurio:

[0x16e12f000] >aurioc> 807: failed: 'nohw' (enable 1, outf< 2 ch, 0 Hz, Float32, non-inter> inf< 1 ch, 44100 Hz, Int16>)

The 'nohw' tells that there is no access to the hardware mic resource.

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fragalles OP

Oct ’15

Apple advertises the Siri search will work with third party content (netflix), so in theory it also should work in any app. I will categorize my content for the time the API will be available and I can let siri search for keywords...

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