Home Media Automation – Part 2

Mar 11

Home Media Automation – Part 2

Posted in: How to

In my last post, I showed how to use Apple TV & iTunes to see all you movies on you LCD and listen all your music on your home theater. Wireless played an important role for syncing the media, but you can also use wired connection.

Now let’s take this a step further. There was time when there were no remote controls, for time you have to change the channel or volume we had to go up to the TV or music system. Those days are long gone. So in your home media automation, you will definitely not like to go up to your computer to change the media. The good thing will be if you can get a remote for your computer as well. Even better will be the ability to use your remote across rooms/walls, such that you can increase & decrease the volume of your system or change the song from a different room.

Adding a new remote to your Apple TV

Steps to follow:

Download “Remote Control” application for iTunes store and install it on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Open Remote Control app on your iPhone/iPod and go to settings. Select “Add Library”.
Open your Apple TV settings. Under that go to Remotes. Enter the pin as you see on your iPod/iPhone.
Again, select ‘add library’ on Remote App on iPod/iPhone.
Open iTunes, you will see your phone or iPod name in the left bar. Enter your 4 digit pin as displayed on the Remote app in iTunes.

You are ready to go. You iPod Touch or iPhone now acts as a remote. By using your iPod Touch or iPhone, you can now control your media, sitting in a different room.