appletv – How can I show a read-only version of Google Calendar on Apple TV 4th generation? – Ask Different
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/14
Based on [WayBack] appletv – How can I show a read-only version of Google Calendar on Apple TV 4th generation? – Ask Different there is one choice that might work on Apple TV 3rd generation and 4th generation:
- [WayBack] GitHub – steventroughtonsmith/tvOSBrowser: tvOS Web Browser sample project (Private API)
- [WayBack] GitHub – jvanakker/tvOSBrowser: tvOS Web Browser sample project (Private API) : more up to date fork of the first link
This is the only practical solution I dissected from [WayBack] How to surf the web and use Safari on Apple TV – Macworld UK: Here is how to browse the internet and watch web services on your Apple TV.
Installing requires a few steps as described at
- [WayBack] How to install a web browser on Apple TV and
- [WayBack] How to Run Native tvOS Browser on Your Apple TV: If you want to run native tvOS browser on Apple TV, there is a hack developed by a Dutch developer. This hack uses Apple’s private API based on UIWebView class.
Limiting to only Apple TV 4, another solution is also possible:
However the last solution is not a real web browser, so it does not allow a layout I’m using for the calendar, or actually two calendars:
- weekly calendar on the left so my brother sees his detailed activities for the upcoming days
- monthly calendar on the top right for an overview of the past and upcoming weeks
- three weather frames on the bottom right with two weather radars from different sources and a weather overview for the upcoming days
The reason I need this is because my brother is mentally retarded having problems with abstract concepts like relative time and scheduling. Like me he is also easily distracted and not good at repeating tasks. So looking at a schedule at least once a day is tough for him.
He is very good at concrete topics, especially ones he can put to practice right away like “will it rain on my way to work”. That makes him look at this web page in the first place.
Currently this calendar is shown on a monitor by a Raspberry Pi attached to it.
But I might go for the Apple TV 3 route later on.
–jeroen
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