I came across some info about the protocol the iPhone uses to talk to iTunes and Apple TV for it's Apple Remote app.

http://www.packetevents.com/2008/07/...e-with-iphone/

I did some testing and it does look like the Apple TV is now running an HTTP server on port 3689. I was wondering if anyone has figured out how to pair with it and login?

http://192.168.1.x:3689/sys-info
http://192.168.1.x:3689/login?pairing-guid=?

It seems like if we were able to authenticate a session we could make our own gui to push media urls to the apple tv and control it from practically any device. Let me know if anyone has experimented with this already.

-LiquidIce

OK, so here is how to pair and communicate with itunes/atv over HTTP: http://dacp.jsharkey.org/

Now we can make our own GUIs and control interfaces for itunes/atv!

The guy who provided all of the information at the link above won a google programming contest to create a cool application for the android phone. His app is an open source program that controls itunes\atv. It's just as good if not better than Apple Remote on the iPhone. I am very glad he made the code open source.

Have Fun!

That is an awesome find, thanks for sharing.