1.1.5

📺 TV Assist 1.1.5

🎙️ New: voice control

Press a key on your remote and ask Home Assistant something out loud. A bar appears over
whatever you're watching, shows what it heard, and speaks the answer back.

It uses your Assist pipeline as you've set it up — your conversation agent answers and
your chosen voice reads the reply. Simple commands like "turn on the kitchen light" are
handled locally and answer straight away.

💬 Conversations remember context, so "turn it off" after "is the kitchen light on?" works.
If the assistant asks you a question back, the microphone reopens on its own.

🔌 Works with a USB microphone, or with the TV's own microphone on televisions that don't
let apps use the remote's mic (most Sony BRAVIAs).

⚠️ After upgrading: open Permissions on the Home screen and allow the microphone,
then set your voice key under Triggers & keys.

⌨️ New: type to Assist

Prefer not to talk? There's a card you can type into instead. Spoken and typed messages
share the same conversation.

🐛 Fixed: notifications with emoji or accented text never appeared

If a notification contained an emoji or a letter like é, the TV quietly threw it away —
the automation looked like it worked but nothing showed up.

✨ Also

• 🔊 Sounds and spoken replies start faster
• 🌐 The web console is more reliable

1.1.4

Fixed

• Fixes oversized map card tiles

1.1.3

Fixed:

• Component reacts to light themes properly.
• Improved Web Server behaviour for handling connection errors to Home Assistant.

1.1.2

Added

• An update check on the About page showing whether a newer version is available.

Fixed

• Local camera thumbnails now refresh properly instead of freezing on the first frame.
• Connection errors now say what's actually wrong — untrusted certificate, wrong address, or unreachable server — instead of showing raw technical text.

1.1.1

Added:

• Adds a Verify certificate toggle so Home Assistant with a self-signed certificate can connect over https/http on your local network.

1.1.0

Bug Fix #1

• Notification images now update on every trigger instead of showing the first snapshot forever and also render at original resolution.

1.0.0

TV Assist v1.0.0

An Android TV app that turns your TV into a Home Assistant control surface and a smart-home information overlay — fully navigable by remote. Inspired by QuickBars and TvOverlay, combined into one app.

🏠 Home Assistant control

• Live WebSocket connection to Home Assistant with long-lived token auth and real-time state updates
• Overlay sidebar drawn over any running app (TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY), fully D-pad navigable
• Toggle and control entities via call_service without leaving what you're watching
• Rich control cards for lights, switches, climate/AC, and more

🎮 Remote & navigation

• Key-capture accessibility service — summon the overlay with any remote button (single / long press)
• Configurable auto-close (5/10/15/30/60s) and reliable BACK-to-dismiss
• Auto-start on boot + foreground keep-alive service so it's always ready

⭐ Entity management

• Search by friendly name or entity_id
• Favorites and Controllable filters; favorites pinned to top
• Multi-select sidebar picker with reorder/remove
• Per-entity customization — override name and icon
• Icons automatically match Home Assistant (device-class → MDI mapping)

📷 Cameras & video

• Live camera tiles with RTSP streams and snapshot URLs
• Dual playback engines — ExoPlayer and libVLC (VLC handles HEVC / quirky RTSP that ExoPlayer can't)
• Local camera definitions managed on-device or from the web console

🗺️ Person maps

• Follow-map tiles for person or car entities to see who's where at a glance

🔔 Notification overlays (TvOverlay-style)

• REST notification server — push toasts, persistent cards, and a fixed status pill onto the screen
• On-screen clock and screen dimming layer
• Notifications support images and live video streams, with auto-dismiss and enlarge timeouts

🔊 Audio & speech

• Text-to-speech announcements (speak) with warmup and relative volume
• Sound playback (play_sound)
• speak_mode to read notification text aloud

🔌 Home Assistant integration (custom component v1.1.0)

• Installable custom_components/tv_assist with config flow
• Services: tv_assist.notify, persistent, clear, speak, play_sound — target TVs directly from automations

⚙️ Onboarding, settings & remote management

• Set up on the TV or from your phone (temporary web server on port 8484)
• PIN-gated web console to manage connection, cameras, notification token, maps, logo, and backups from a browser
• Backup & restore of all settings to JSON, with encrypted credential storage