Recipes

Step-by-step guides for common setups. Each recipe says what to click in the builder, and shows the matching dashboard.json.

• Open an AV popup with one key
• A TV input picker that closes itself
• A Harmony-style "All off" button
• A complete Apple TV page
• Show your amplifier's audio/video info
• Doorbell: pop up the camera
• One remote per room

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Open an AV popup with one key

Since 1.2.8. A long press on Menu floats your "AV" page over whatever you're doing. Press it again to close.

1. ⚙ on the AV page › Popup size & position: e.g. 90 % × 60 %, bottom.
2. 1. Hotkeys: scope Global, Long press, key Menu (MAIN), action Go to page › AV, tick Open as a popup › Add hotkey.
3. Save to device.

"longHotkeys": [
  { "key": "MAIN", "page": "AV", "pageMode": "popup" }
],
"pages": [
  { "name": "AV", "popupWidth": 0.9, "popupHeight": 0.6, "popupPosition": "bottom", "cards": [ … ] }
]

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A TV input picker that closes itself

A small popup with your HDMI inputs: tap one, the TV switches and the popup closes.

1. Create a page Inputs with a Button grid. One button per input, using IR device + command (or Harmony, or a service), with Close the open popup after this button's action ticked.
2. On your TV page, add a tile or a hotkey that opens Inputs as a popup (Page to open + …as a popup).

{ "type": "button_grid", "options": { "columns": 2, "buttons": [
  { "name": "HDMI 1", "irDevice": "tv_lg", "irCommand": "hdmi1", "closePopup": true },
  { "name": "HDMI 2", "irDevice": "tv_lg", "irCommand": "hdmi2", "closePopup": true }
] } }

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A Harmony-style "All off" button

Turns off whatever Activity is running, in one room or everywhere.

• A tile: on a scene_grid tile, fill Turn off a room's Activity with the room name, or * for every room.
• A key: hotkey, Long press on Power, action Turn off a room's Activity › *.

{ "name": "All off", "icon": "/sdcard/astrion/icons/power.png", "stopActivity": "*" }

"longHotkeys": [ { "key": "POWER", "stopActivity": "*" } ]

Composed Activities switch their devices off according to each device's settings; Harmony activities power their own hub off. See Activities.

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A complete Apple TV page

1. Pair the Apple TV on the web page, both codes (control + Now Playing). See Apple TV.
2. Activity Watch Apple TV (builder › 2. Activities): devices TV + amplifier + Apple TV, volume on the amplifier. In the review step, set Now playing to the Apple TV.
3. Page "Apple TV":
   • an Apple TV remote card, Full layout. Add buttons (e.g. Menu, Home, Siri, Guide) and your favourite apps (Netflix, YouTube…);
   • ⚙ › Hide unless this Activity is running › Watch Apple TV.
4. Home page: a scene_grid tile with Composed Activity › Watch Apple TV, Page to open › Apple TV.
5. Hotkeys on the Apple TV page (This page only): Play → Apple TV command Play / Pause; Rewind / Fast-forward → Back / Forward 10 s.

Result: one tap on the home page turns everything on, opens the Apple TV page, the volume keys drive the amplifier, and the dock clock shows what's playing.

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Show your amplifier's audio/video info

AVR sensors often return long text (3840x2160 HDR10 23.98Hz Dolby Vision 12-bit 4:2:2). The Monitor card's options handle it:

1. Add a Monitor card (common cards), title AVR.
2. Layout › Vertical: the value gets its own full-width line.
3. Tick Scroll long values on one line if you'd rather keep one line that scrolls.
4. Add your sensors with + Add a sensor.

{ "type": "monitor", "options": {
  "title": "AVR", "layout": "vertical", "marquee": true,
  "entities": [
    { "entity_id": "sensor.avr_video", "name": "Video" },
    { "entity_id": "sensor.avr_audio", "name": "Audio" }
  ]
} }

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Doorbell: pop up the camera

When someone rings, the camera page pops up on the remote, then goes away by itself.

1. A page Door with a Camera card.
2. ⚙ on Door:
   • Auto-open when this entity's state is: binary_sensor.doorbell, state on;
   • …and auto-close when its state is: off;
   • How it opens › Popup, and set its size.

{ "name": "Door", "openWhenEntity": "binary_sensor.doorbell", "openWhenState": "on",
  "closeWhenState": "off", "openMode": "popup", "cards": [ … ] }

The remote remembers where you were and goes back there when the popup closes.

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One remote per room

1. Name each remote after its room (Settings › About, or Rename on its web page).
2. Add each one to the Home Assistant integration and turn on push.
3. In each remote's builder › 4. Dock screen › Room of this remote: its room.
4. Give each remote its own Activities for its own room.
5. One automation for every remote's buttons, using remote_name:

trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: astrion_button
    event_data: { event: lights_off }
action:
  - service: light.turn_off
    target:
      area_id: "{{ trigger.event.data.remote_name | lower | replace(' ', '_') }}"

See Several remotes.

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