Smart Group Apple TV restart

In our educational environment, I manage several hundred Apple TVs across classrooms and common areas. I found that periodically restarting them helped reduce AirPlay issues, so I looked for a way to automate the process instead of relying on manual reminders.

I documented the approach here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-issue-restart-mobile-device-command-en-masse-jamf-adam-tomczynski-3buvc/

Since then, the Task Server hardware has been retired, and with newer versions of tvOS, regular restarts have become unnecessary. I hope you find this information helpful.

Thanks ​@atomczynski11! ​@AmanCognita  hope you found this useful 🤞🏼 

tried this having issues with access token, also which api roles are needed? is it mdm commands?

Hello.
The following privileges are needed:

 

Create Mobile Devices, Read Mobile Devices, Send Mobile Device Restart Device Command, Read User

This should get you started:

 

#!/bin/bash

### Adam Tomczynski
### July 23, 2024
### 
### used to work with Jamf using the API
### remember the sanity check on line 26
### remember to modify the baseURL, create a new API role, and assign the role to the user
### remember on line 20 to "http"



baseURL="pretendco.com"
client_id="61703271-9e88-43c2-830b-eb26ad2309f8"
client_secret="gGA97uB2SsBQ1Xv34Cvz1_3WPfEZB0oPXrf3M8BuITmkswVazvHNBfdhukGNaQ8q"



access_token=$(curl --silent --location \
	--request POST "https://$baseURL/api/oauth/token" \
	--header "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
	--data-urlencode "client_id=$client_id" \
	--data-urlencode "grant_type=client_credentials" \
	--data-urlencode "client_secret=$client_secret" | plutil -extract "access_token" raw -o - -)


#echo $access_token
# sanity check passed

#for dept in Art Music Math Science History
#do
#	curl -s -X POST https://$baseURL/JSSResource/departments/id/0 -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" -d "<department><name>$dept</name></department>"
#done

#Remote Restart on iPad
# curl -s -X POST https://$baseURL/JSSResource/mobiledevicecommands/command/RestartDevice/id/100 -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token" 


#Remote Restart of device "Demo Apple TV" Apple TV
# curl -s -X POST https://$baseURL/JSSResource/mobiledevicecommands/command/RestartDevice/id/16642 -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -H "Authorization: Bearer $access_token"