Audio input on the AppleTV simulator

We're prototyping without the actual hardware, and I'm trying to port a portion of our iOS application to AppleTV. We use Audio Units for recording from the microphone.


The Audio Units code seems to work fine. It's querying things like the recording frequency from the simulator, and initializing everything for recording. The hold up is the audio session. The play and record category for AVAudioSession (and all the recording based audio categories) are defined as part of AVFoundation on the AppleTV, but they're not marked as available at runtime.


Does the simulator currently not support audio input? Is there a feature to enable it? And I'm assuming the hardware will allow recording for the remote microphone if these APIs are present. Is that the case?

Answered by Technology Evangelist in 52250022

Hi Colin,


tvOS does not currently support SDK access to the microphone at this time.


Please file an enhancement request at bugreporter.apple.com if you would like to see this in a future version.


Thanks!

there's no mic on the Apple TV, right? Where would you get AudioUnit input from? Unless Apple gives us access to the Siri mic in the remote?

Accepted Answer

Hi Colin,


tvOS does not currently support SDK access to the microphone at this time.


Please file an enhancement request at bugreporter.apple.com if you would like to see this in a future version.


Thanks!

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