Astrion Config Manager

Astrion Config Manager is a Home Assistant app (add-on) by @dvbit for managing the dashboards of one or more Astrion remotes from Home Assistant: a form editor, full version history, checks against your Home Assistant entities before sending, copying pages between remotes, and a live simulator.

🤝 Community project. Developed and maintained by @dvbit, not by Astrion. Questions and bugs about it go to its GitHub repository.

Is it for me?

The remote's own web page and builder are enough for a single remote. The add-on is useful when:

• you have several remotes (living room, bedroom, office…) and want to manage them all from one place;
• you want to check every entity exists in Home Assistant before sending a dashboard to a remote;
• you want to copy a page from one remote to another;
• you want your dashboards' history inside Home Assistant backups;
• you want to try a dashboard on a simulator before sending it.

	Builder on the remote	Astrion Config Manager
Where	Browser, on the remote's web page	Home Assistant sidebar (Astrion)
Remotes	One at a time	All of them, in one list
Forms for every card	✅	✅
Undo / redo	✅ (1.3.0)	✅
Version history	✅ on the remote, last 30 + pinned (1.3.0)	✅ every version, named milestones, in HA backups
Checks entities exist in HA before sending	—	✅ sending is blocked on errors
Copy a page to another remote	—	✅ with its icons, IR devices and links
Detects changes made on the remote itself	—	✅ "Changed on device"
Simulator	Static preview	✅ live states, and taps really run (HA, Harmony Hub, IR)
Shared icon library	—	✅ missing icons uploaded on send
Needs	Nothing	Home Assistant OS or Supervised (apps/add-ons)

Both work together: you can use the builder for a quick change and the add-on for the rest.

Installation

1. Settings › Apps (Add-ons) › App store › ⋮ › Repositories, add:

   https://github.com/dvbit/ha-astrion-config-manager
   

2. Install Astrion Config Manager, start it, then open Astrion in the sidebar (administrators only).
3. On each remote, check that Web page is on (Settings › Web configuration, port 8080).
4. In the add-on, + Add remote: name, IP, port 8080, screen size 480 × 800, portrait. The current dashboard of the remote becomes version 1.

Getting along with the remote

• Every send from the add-on is also kept on the remote (Astrion 1.3.0+): it appears in the builder's 🕘 Version history, so it can be restored from either side.
• A change made on the remote (its builder, its web page, its Settings) is reported by the add-on as Changed on device. You choose: import it as a new version, overwrite it, or ignore it. Nothing is applied on its own.
• New Astrion versions: the add-on follows each Astrion release and beta. Options it doesn't know yet are kept as they are, never removed. Check its changelog for the Astrion version it supports.

⚠️ The simulator runs things for real

Tapping a light tile in the simulator turns the light on; an Activity tile starts the Activity (TV, amplifier, inputs). To just click through the pages, turn on Navigation only: the actions are listed instead of being run.

See also

• Several remotes
• Builder: undo and version history
• Home Assistant integration (entities, Activities and events of each remote, a different project from this add-on)