0.5.0 (2020-03-19)

Changes:

• Add power interface
• Add device information interface
• Add playing app interface
• New scripts: atvscript and atvproxy
• External interface now has type hints
• Pure AirPlay devices are no longer returned by scan
• Files have been moved around and the public interface
  is now well-defined
• Documentation has moved to pyatv.dev

Breaking Changes:

• suspend and wakeup in the remote control interface are now
  deprecated. They did not work very well. Use the power interface
  instead.
• Black is now used for linting and black does not support
  python 3.5, so support for python 3.5 has been dropped.
• helpers.auto_connect is now a coroutine

Notes:

• Lots of updates to documentation and tests have been made
• An API reference is now available at pyatv.dev

See CHANGES.md for the complete release log.

Changes

This is a big release with too many changes to list! See CHANGES.md for more details.

Changes

• Add missing play state 2 (#172)

Changes

• Fix breaking change in tvOS 12.1.1 (details in #158)
• Manually paired remotes are no longer removed when rebooting Apple TV (#127)
• Handle leading zeros when pairing (#163)
• Improved error whan using AirPlay without credentials
• Fixed bug introduced in 0.3.11 where a status code was not handled properly when no artwork was available (seen as an exception)

Changes

• Deprecate support for python 3.4
• Add support for python 3.7
• Bug fixes for #150 and #151
• Add netifaces as dependency (#160)
• Allow using any pin code when pairing

Other

• Bump various test tools and fix code to conform with guidelines

Changes

• Loosen up required versions for some dependencies

Changes

• Handle re-login properly in case of connection problems or if a device is restarted

Changes

• Revert some of the earlier AirPlay clean ups from 0.3.5 as that made playback less reliable
• Use binary plist instead of text format in play_url to make AirPlay work with later versions of tvOS

Changes

• Fix string conversion for idle state (#120)

Changes

• Fix support for genre (#106)
• Handle playstate idle/0 (#115)
• Improve session handling in AirPlay (#118)

Changes

• Add long_description to get description on pypi

Changes

• Fixed broken device_id function (always generated same id)

atvremote

• Fixed argument handling, e.g. when using play_url

Notes

• Same as 0.3.1 but fixed with pypi

Changes

• Add device_id
• Remove developer commands

Changes

• Support AirPlay device authentication
• Support arrow keys (left, right, up, down)
• Support scanning for Apple TVs with home sharing disabled
• Support for shuffle and repeat modes
• Support for "stop" button
• Handle additional media kinds
• New "hash" function in Playing API
• Support python 3.6
• Bump aiohttp to 1.3.5 and support 2.0.0+

atvremote

• Multiple commands can be given to atvremote
• Doing "atvremote commands" requires no device and is a lot faster
• All commands now listed with "atvremote commands"
• New "help" command in atvremote - Fix atvremote exit codes

Notes

• play_url has moved to the new airplay module and no longer accepts start position as required argument. This is a breaking change!

Other

• Upgrade test tools (pylint, flake, etc.)
• Added documentation to readthedocs

Changes

• Allow custom pairing guid when pairing

Notes

• By default, a random pairing guid is now generated when calling pyatv.pair_with_apple_tv

Changes

• Always trigger one push update when starting

Changes

• Support for push updates
• Fast auto discovery for single device
• Nicer output in "atvremote playing"
• Pairing improvements
• Unpin external dependencies

Other

• Easier version management (internal)
• Code quality improvements (quantifiedcode)

Changes

• Added new function: artwork_url
• aiohttp bumped to 1.3.1

Changes

• Made it possible to pass a custom ClientSession

Notes

• Renamed topmenu to top_menu which is a breaking change