Apple: When you start an Airplay stream on your phone directed at an Apple TV, the Apple TV doesn't send a switch input command.
I think it depends on the equipment combination, and its state.
I'm able to send an Airplay stream to my AppleTV and it both turns on my LG television, and switches the input to the AppleTV.
However, if the TV is already on, and I send an Airplay stream to the TV it will not switch the input. Which I think is an OK measure if you have kids or roommates or the TV is in a public setting so that someone might hijack your viewing as a joke or to be annoying. My memory is that this used to be possible with an earlier model AppleTV, or an earlier version of iOS.
That said, ever since I attached a $23 no-name Chinese DVR to another HDMI input on the same LG TV, the AppleTV no longer has the ability to wake or change inputs. Very strange.
At least for my TV, which is some cheap Element Amazon TV from 2017, my Apple TV has full CEC. It will change input to Apple TV whenever I interact with it, and can turn the TV on directly. So it has to be how the TVs implement things. I've wiped my TV firmware back to 2017, so it's possible newer TVs intentionally break their CEC features to encourage you use their own (bad) smart features?
it's possible newer TVs intentionally break their CEC features to encourage you use their own (bad) smart features?
In my case, the TV is from 2015.
I know because my wife and I just happened to be in an electronics store when the Pope was visiting the United States in 2015, and it was on all of the televisions.
At the time, we had a 32-inch TV from 2003ish, and when my wife saw the Pope on the 65-inch screen in the store, she immediately grabbed a salesperson and said, "I want to see the Pope like that."
So, in case you've ever wondered if the programming on a TV in a store matters, the answer is "sometimes."
I think it depends on the equipment combination, and its state.
I'm able to send an Airplay stream to my AppleTV and it both turns on my LG television, and switches the input to the AppleTV.
However, if the TV is already on, and I send an Airplay stream to the TV it will not switch the input. Which I think is an OK measure if you have kids or roommates or the TV is in a public setting so that someone might hijack your viewing as a joke or to be annoying. My memory is that this used to be possible with an earlier model AppleTV, or an earlier version of iOS.
That said, ever since I attached a $23 no-name Chinese DVR to another HDMI input on the same LG TV, the AppleTV no longer has the ability to wake or change inputs. Very strange.