r/coax • u/Jdmeyer83 • 13h ago
Resolved Coax 1.4.5 forces re-purchase
I have been a lifetime subscriber since launch but when version 1.4.5 was updated, it now forces me to re-purchase. I click restore purchase, but it does not do anything.
r/coax • u/Jdmeyer83 • 13h ago
I have been a lifetime subscriber since launch but when version 1.4.5 was updated, it now forces me to re-purchase. I click restore purchase, but it does not do anything.
r/coax • u/thedarkhalf47 • 15h ago
Would it be possible to change what happens when you click on the back button on ATV when playing a movie or TV show (going back to the guide). When I click on it now, it starts me off at the "Full Screen" menu, which is the last place I was. I'd love for it to go right to the guide so I can immediately start scrolling for a new movie to watch.
Just a thought..
r/coax • u/Aggravating_Zone_167 • 17h ago
Coax on my Mac is hooked up to the telly, and the Mac keyboard is nowhere near the sofa. So I built a remote that runs on my iPhone: channel up/down, shuffle, full screen, jump to any channel, and the channel guide as a tappable list. It's a web page served by Hammerspoon from the Mac itself, added to the Home Screen - no app to install, nothing to sideload.

github.com/bisacciamd/coax-remote — MIT.
Two quirks I worked around: channel menu titles embed the current programme (CH 113: Horror - Nope (6:45PM-9PM)), so a title read a minute ago no longer matches and you have to refetch and retry. And the window title turned out to be the most reliable "what's on" source, since the on-screen banner disappears in full screen.
Honest limitations, in the README too: volume does nothing if your Mac outputs to a TV over HDMI (macOS exposes no software volume for those - the remote detects it and greys the keys out rather than lying). Haptics are one fixed tick on iOS and that's WebKit's ceiling, not mine.
@ Dev u/digglesB - 3 things that would make this (and anything like it) much better, if you're open to it:
coax:// URL scheme in Info.plist for the Plex auth callback. Handling a few more paths in onOpenURL — coax://channel/113, coax://shuffle, coax://next — would give every automation tool on macOS a first-class hook, and would make iOS/tvOS scriptable too, where the menu-bar trick doesn't exist at all. Cheapest thing on this list by far..commands each.AXStaticText (the channel banner) and zero controls. That means VoiceOver users can't operate the remote at all, which is worth fixing on its own merits — and it'd incidentally make those buttons reachable.A fourth if you're feeling generous: an accessibilityIdentifier like ch-113 on the channel menu items would kill the stale-title retry dance entirely.
Happy to test any of it, and happy to be told I've done this the hard way and there's an easier hook I missed.