HA TV Dashboard

The HA TV Dashboard brings your
Home Assistant instance, camera feeds, and notifications to the biggest
screen in your home - and makes it genuinely fun to use.

Toggle lights, peek at your front door camera, check the weather, and
run automations, all without leaving the sofa. This is Android/Google TV
done the Home Assistant way - fast, beautiful and completely free.

✨ What can it do?

🎥 Picture-in-Picture Camera Popups
A motion alert fires & your camera feed pops up right over whatever
you're watching. HLS, RTSP and WebRTC all supported. Pick your corner,
set the size, add a title, icon, or message - and set it to disappear
after a few seconds. Your show barely misses a beat.

🏠 Home Control Overlay
A silky sidebar that shows over any app, giving you tap-fast control
of your lights, switches, climate, scripts, and more. No need to switch
apps. Just press a button & your home obeys.

🎮 Remote Key Actions
Map single, double presses on your TV remote to trigger the Home
Control overlay or any Home Assistant action. Your remote just got a
serious upgrade.

🔔 Rich TV Notifications
Beautiful banners with title, message, icon and optional image - pushed from Home Assistant automations. Person detected at the door?
You'll know instantly.

🚇 Live Transit Status
Want to know if your Tube line is running before you even leave the sofa?
Done.

🌤️ Weather, Time & Calendar Overlay
Surface the things that matter to you, right on your TV. Morning
briefing? Sorted.

📡 Remote-triggered Notifications
Fire any notification - video, rich or info - directly from a Home
Assistant automation. Requires persistent background connection, but once
set up, the possibilities are endless.

🎨 Native TV-first UX
Smooth animations, a clean layout, and a couch-friendly design built
from the ground up for Android/Google TV.

🔒 Private & Secure

Your data stays yours.

- Local-first: HA TV Dashboard connects directly to your Home Assistant
instance - no cloud relay, no middleman.
- No stored credentials: Log in using Home Assistant itself. Tokens
refresh automatically and nothing sensitive is stored locally.
- Remote access: HTTPS remote instances are supported.
- Accessibility Service: HA TV Dashboard uses Android's
AccessibilityService API solely to detect remote control key presses
(single, double, and long-press events on the D-pad/remote). This is
required because Android TV provides no alternative API for
intercepting hardware key events from outside the foreground app. No
screen content, personal data, or user actions beyond key events are
ever accessed, transmitted, or stored.
- Display over other apps: Used exclusively to render overlays (camera
popups, Home Control sidebar, notification banners) on top of other
apps. No content from other apps is read or captured.

⚡ Easy to Set Up

If you can set up Home Assistant, this is a walk in the park. Seriously.

Auto-discovers your Home Assistant instance, or enter your URL manually.
Log in with your HA credentials — no long-lived access tokens required.

💸 100% Free. Every Feature. Always.

No paywalls. No subscriptions. No "pro" tier. Everything you see here is
completely free, forever.

📋 Requirements

- Running Home Assistant instance (local or HTTPS)
- Android TV or Google TV device
- Accessibility Service permission - used solely to detect remote control
key presses (D-pad/hardware button events). No screen content or
personal data is accessed via this permission.
- Display over other apps permission — used solely to show overlays
(camera popups, control sidebar, notification banners) on screen.

📖 Docs & setup guides, and automation examples:
https://github.com/nodinosaur/ha_tv_dashboard_wiki/wiki/HA-TV-Dashboard-about

HA TV Dashboard is an independent project and is not affiliated with
Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation.

Made with ❤️ for the Home Assistant community by @nodinosaur