When I open the remote app on the iPhone, I wait until I hear VO on the Apple TV and then I use tripple-click home to turn off VO on the phone. When the remote app is open on the phone, there are three buttons on the bottom. From left to right they are option (which I pretty much never use), menu (basically a back button), and play/pause. The rest of the phone screen is just a scroll area. I just move my finger around it to navigate around the TV screen, and I definitely get better results when VO on the phone is off. When you get to a place where you can type (like a search field), the phone will vibrate and the keyboard comes up on the phone. Then I turn VO back on and just use touch typing to type in what I want. Then click the hide button in the top left corner of the home screen to get rid of the keyboard and you can turn VO off on the phone again. This works great for me, much better than the remote included with the Apple TV.
Eric On 3/6/11, Jeff Berwick <mailingli...@berwick.name> wrote: > Please leave this on list. I haven't managed to get it working either. > > On 2011-03-06, at 11:51 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Interesting. Would you be willing to talk more off-list? My gestures >> weren't working in the way that I had anticipated, but maybe that's >> because I had VO on. >> Best, >> Donna >> On Mar 6, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Eric Brinkman wrote: >> >>> I love the remote app for the iPhone. When navigating the Apple TV >>> menus, I get the best results if I turn VO off on my phone. That >>> makes moving around the TV screen much easier. When I'm using the app >>> I really only turn VO on the phone on when I'm typing. I really have >>> no use for the included remote since I have this app. >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> On 3/6/11, Donna Goodin <goodi...@msu.edu> wrote: >>>> It is really cool. But there are some things that you would think would >>>> be >>>> faster, like entering in search text for example. >>>> Donna >>>> On Mar 6, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Brian Miller wrote: >>>> >>>>> Personally I'm not sure why anyone would bother with the Apple TV app >>>>> when >>>>> the remote that comes with the Apple TV works just great, and is fully >>>>> accessible. >>>>> >>>>> Plus it looks really cool! >>>>> >>>>> Brian Miller >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin >>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 8:47 AM >>>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>>> Subject: Does the iPhone remote App for Apple TV really work? >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I've been experimenting with using this app and getting really lousy >>>>> results. I'm hearing things like menu, options, Gestures, on the >>>>> phone, >>>>> but >>>>> every time I try to select one of these I end up selecting some random >>>>> movie >>>>> on our Apple TV. I can't deselect it, or go back to view a list of >>>>> movies. >>>>> The only thing I've been able to do successfully is pause the stupid >>>>> preview >>>>> that I never intended to start in the first place. Can anyone help or >>>>> is >>>>> this app just a bust? >>>>> thanks, >>>>> Donna >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
