BETA: Deep Links on iOS and tvOS

Beta Community Apple Beta
#21

This works great! Exactly what I'm looking for. It did give me a popup asking if I wanted to open the app the first time I used the deep link, but I haven't gotten it since even if I force-quit Channels. Do you know what circumstances cause that confirmation dialog to appear?

In case it helps someone, here's the Home Assistant service call that I'm using:

service: media_player.play_media
data:
  media_content_type: url
  media_content_id: channels-beta://play/channel/6030
target:
  entity_id: media_player.appletv_fr

This is so much better than the hacky solution that I was using on my Shield!

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#22

Very cool, thanks for sharing! :grinning:

#23

Don't need an extra app for that

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#24

Or even the using the built in Shortcut

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#25

Thanks! Didn’t realize Channels had its own shortcuts.

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#29

Documentation was added here: Channels Support - Deep Links

Deep Links shipped with version 5.9.1.

Thanks for helping with this.

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