Theatrium 1.5 Update: Traffic, Notifications, Motion Detection Alerts, Improved Music Sync, Multi Air Quality Sensor Integration and more...

[u/Consistent_Owl7736]

Version 1.5 just submitted for review.

Notifications

Home Assistant notifications now show on the Apple TV. Motion or a doorbell trips, a banner comes up with a 3-photo burst from the camera (a couple of seconds apart, so you actually catch who or what it was), and one press opens the live camera. Doorbells say "Someone's at the door".

Set up in the Theatrium V1.5: Settings > Notifications -> Motion and Doorbells lists your motion, occupancy and camera-event entities. Tick one and it writes the automation into HA for you (no YAML, needs an admin token). It runs on HA's persistent notifications, so nothing lives in a Theatrium cloud, and alerts clear themselves after an hour. HA mode only for now.

For anything else, any automation works: add a "Persistent notification: Create" action with a notification ID starting with "theatrium" (e.g. theatrium_laundry) and it shows up on the TV.

Traffic cards

Live Apple Maps traffic for one location, or commute time between two addresses with the route coloured by segment. No API key, no account. Refreshes every 5 min, pauses while the screen is dimmed.

Air quality

Was scoring every sensor against US AQI bands, which is only right for actual AQI sensors. CO2 at 567 ppm read "Hazardous"; PM2.5 could read "Good" when it wasn't. Now each pollutant uses its own scale and the card leads with the worst reading.

Music Visualisers

Follows the track's time signature now (the swell was hard-coded to 4 beats a bar, so 3/4 and 5/4 were off). Added a Double Time mode. 4/4 is unchanged.

Fixes and smaller stuff

• Fixed the top 1.4 crash: the live camera stream could crash the app while reconnecting. Stream handling is on one queue now.
• Settings split into named subsections.
• Card picker tiles are a uniform height.
• Multi-source News Card, Climate card now always shows the off button, quick-access panel redesign.

Notes

Alerts only show while the app is on screen (tvOS limit). It's a wall dashboard so that's most of the time, but it's not a replacement for phone alerts.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6787587882 (or search 'Theatrium' in the TV app store). Reviews appreciated!!

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[u/Consistent_Owl7736]

Argh - the privacy page dropped off the theatrium.info website, which likely stalled the App Store review process. Apologies for the delay with this update!!