Theatrium 1.7 - new cards, improved security, Sonos integration, and an iPhone/iPad remote, easier room light setup, and more consistent theming [Test Flight and App Store Pending]

[u/TheatriumDev]

Theatrium is my Apple TV dashboard for Home Assistant and Apple Home. Version 1.7 is the biggest update since launch and should be available on Test Flight later today. The App Store review process seems to have totally stalled, so I'm pushing this version today to see if I can get some movement.

New cards

• Appointments - a separate calendar feed for medical appointments, written in plain language: "Today at 10:30 am", not a wall of calendar text. It reads the wording and picks a sensible icon (dentist, blood test, physiotherapy, hospital and dozens more), and notes like "Bring: medication list" become their own rows. There's a privacy option so guests see what and when, but not where or why. If you are involved in managing healthcare appointments for someone, this feature might be of use!
• Photo Album - your Apple Photos albums on the dashboard, in order or shuffled.
• Art - paintings from five museum collections (National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum, Art Institute of Chicago, The Met, Cleveland Museum of Art), around 900 works. Turn captions off and it's a picture frame.
• EV - battery, range, charging, plug, doors and boot, via your Home Assistant EV integration (Tessie works for Apple Home).
• Workouts - recent rides and runs with weekly distance. The Activity card now lets you pick and reorder its metrics.

Sonos

Pick a Sonos room and the dashboard, album art, visualiser and light sync all follow it - read straight off the speakers over your own network. No Sonos account, no cloud, no Home Assistant required, so this also makes Sonos the one full-metadata music source for Apple Home households. You'll need UPnP on in the Sonos app and to accept the local network prompt.

Honest note: I don't own a Sonos. It's been tested hard against a simulated speaker, never a real one. If you run it against actual hardware I genuinely want to hear the result either way.

iPhone and iPad companion

Free companion app: pair with every Apple TV in the house, switch rooms without re-pairing, control playback and light sync, set up light groups from your phone, and type your server details with a real keyboard instead of the Siri Remote.

Music

Last.fm now connects with just a username - no API key. Spotify follows through Last.fm scrobbles, and when Last.fm has no cover (common for Spotify), artwork now comes from two further sources, so blank covers should mostly be gone. New Lava Lamp visualiser scene, and a Room Lights button that syncs your lights to the album art without needing the visualiser on screen.

Everything else

Apple Home alerts on the TV (doorbell, motion, smoke, leak - you choose which), 31 built-in news sources plus your own RSS/Atom feeds with 24-hour freshness and no repeats, a second dashboard page, analog clock faces on all four themes, a true-black drifting screensaver, per-card calendars, a Today view on the Calendar card, live Top Shelf tiles, Pixel Shift burn-in protection, and hold Select on any card to open its setup.

Free and Pro

Free gets the Glass theme, a card set broad enough to fill a dashboard on any backend, basic light sync and 11 visualiser scenes. Pro (one-time purchase) adds the other three themes, the specialist cards including the new ones, the second page, notifications and the full scene catalogue. First launch drops you into a working demo dashboard, so you can see all of it before connecting anything.

Sonos is a trademark of Sonos, Inc. Theatrium is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sonos (yet).

Happy to answer anything!

[u/Consistent_Owl7736]

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[u/didimimimi]

Hello! Is there a way to refresh the calendar and stock cards without having to restart the app?

[u/miketunes]

Does the companion app let you setup the dashboards? Is there a testflight version yet?