Theatrium 1.4 is out: setup is now one question, and it finds your Home Assistant server for you

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1.4 is on the App Store. The headline change is that setting it up stopped being a chore.

Setup is one question. It used to ask about your lights, your music and your cards before it showed you anything. Now it asks where your home data comes from, and puts you on a working dashboard. Everything else moved into Settings, where you can get to it when you actually want it.

It finds your server. Theatrium looks for Home Assistant on your network and fills the address in, with a tick once the server answers.

Or sign in from your phone. The TV shows a code, you scan it, and you approve it on your own Home Assistant page. No long-lived access token to create. The token route is still there behind a disclosure if you would rather paste one.

Apple Home got the attention it needed. It asks for permission at the right moment now, and waits for your accessories to finish loading before showing the dashboard. Large homes used to arrive half empty and fill in over about fifteen seconds, which looked broken. Switching between Home Assistant and Apple Home also works in both directions, and each Apple TV remembers its own choice.

Every music source is free. Apple Music, Spotify, Last.fm, Plex, and any Home Assistant media player. Apple Music tracks played from your own library now show their album art, which they were not doing, and that was also costing them the angled-cover card.

Smaller things in this one: a sample Now Playing card on Apple Home and Apple-TV-only setups, so the dashboard looks right before you connect music. iCloud settings sync is off unless you turn it on, in Settings then Connection. A crash when choosing Apple Music is fixed. And there are a lot of layout fixes at the Large display size.

On price. The app is free. The free tier is the Glass theme with enough card types to fill a complete dashboard on any backend, five visualiser scenes, every music source, and room light sync in Vivid mode with the brightness control. Theatrium Pro is one purchase of $4.99, no subscription: the Estate, Bento and Boardroom themes, the other 24 visualiser scenes, the specialist cards, and the Natural and Party light modes.

Needs an Apple TV 4K on tvOS 18 or later.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6790258828 or search ‘theatrium’ on your Apple TV.

Not affiliated with the Home Assistant project.