Using GCController with tvOS Simulator

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I don't have a new Apple TV, but am working on prototyping a game for it using the simulator. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get GCController to list the Siri remote as an available controller, as the tvOS docs indicate. My list of controllers is always 0 elements long, even if I call startWirelessControllerDiscoveryWithCompletionHandler().

Does anyone have any suggestion or sample code for getting input from the Siri remote?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '15 at 15:07

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The current version of the tvOS simulator apparently does not support this functionality. I was able to try my code on a friend's dev kit, and it registered the remote as a Game Controller as expected. For now, the answer appears to be "use real hardware" or "wait for an updated to the tvOS simulator".

answered Sep 21 '15 at 15:07

Sean McMains

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3 years later and the situation has not changed. You may detect that there is "some" controller of some kind, but you may not receive any signals through the .valueChangedHandler's. – Chris Schreiner Jan 13 '18 at 12:51
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another 3 years later and the situation has not changed :/ – nOk Sep 19 '21 at 13:56
another 3 years again .. – Haojen Mar 22 '23 at 16:36

Using GCController with tvOS Simulator

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