{"id":30289,"date":"2020-09-28T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30289"},"modified":"2020-10-23T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T18:57:54","slug":"roku-adding-apple-airplay-2-and-homekit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/28\/roku-adding-apple-airplay-2-and-homekit\/","title":{"rendered":"Roku Adding Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/28\/roku-homekit-airplay-2-announcement\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/28\/roku-homekit-airplay-2-announcement\/\"><p>Roku today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20200928005142\/en\/Roku-OS-9.4-New-Ways-Access-Content\">announced<\/a> that AirPlay 2 and HomeKit will be rolling out to select 4K TVs and devices as part of a free software update later this year. <\/p>\n<p>AirPlay 2 will enable users to stream videos, music, podcasts, and more directly from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac to a compatible Roku smart TV, with no Apple TV box necessary. And with HomeKit support, users can easily control the TV&rsquo;s power, volume, source, and more using Siri or the Home app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Good news. I wonder whether Fire TV will get built-in <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.tomsguide.com\/faq\/how-to-use-apple-airplay-on-amazon-fire-tv.179189\/\">AirPlay support<\/a> next.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/07\/itunes-video-and-airplay-on-samsung-tvs\/\">iTunes Video and AirPlay on Samsung TVs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"roku-adding-apple-airplay-2-and-homekit-update-2020-10-09\">Update (2020-10-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Daniel_Rubino\/status\/1311333388704456705\">Daniel Rubino<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Daniel_Rubino\/status\/1311333388704456705\">\n<p>Apple TV is coming to Xbox. Explains why Apple was looking to hire UWP devs last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhMDee\/status\/1311494618416988161\">Dan Masters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OhMDee\/status\/1311494618416988161\">\n<p>The lack of Apple TV+ availability on Android is certainly puzzling in light of Apple&rsquo;s services focus shift, particularly when contrasted with their Music approach (and, indeed, their TV+ apps for web, Microsoft, Roku, Amazon, Samsung, LG and VIZIO &#x2013; everyone except Google).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: Roku today announced that AirPlay 2 and HomeKit will be rolling out to select 4K TVs and devices as part of a free software update later this year. AirPlay 2 will enable users to stream videos, music, podcasts, and more directly from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac to a compatible Roku smart TV, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-09-28T20:30:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"f2025239-f0f2-4bd8-86b3-626e986df3eb","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-10-23T18:57:58Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8gJSOfDyS9iGs2JumG3z6w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[222,1446,1326,31,1837,189,30,1666,1502,1997],"class_list":["post-30289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airplay","tag-fire-tv","tag-homekit","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-itunesstore","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-roku","tag-xbox"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30394,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289\/revisions\/30394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}