Pult
A SwiftUI iPhone remote I built and test with my Google TV.
- Role
- Creator and primary developer
- Status
- Active
- Technologies
- Swift, SwiftUI, App Intents
The code is public, and the project is still active.
Not on the App Store. Physical-device compatibility is documented per TV in the repository.
- iPhone Pult app
- mTLS pairing and command channelsPairing: port 6467Commands: port 6466
- Google TV
Why Pult exists
I wanted an iPhone remote for my Google TV without installing another ad-supported app.
I built Pult for that specific job: pairing an iPhone with a Google TV on the same network and using a native remote interface.
Pairing and control
- Pult implements the Android TV Remote Service v2 pairing and command protocols.
- Discovery, pairing, transport, remote commands, system intents, and the SwiftUI interface stay in separate layers.
- It communicates with Google TV hardware over the local network.
Protocol choices
- Keeping the networking and protocol code separate from the SwiftUI controls adds structure, but makes each part easier to test and change.
- Pult uses hand-rolled protobuf encoding for the small protocol surface instead of adding SwiftProtobuf as a dependency.
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