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Home Assistant (app layer)

Dashboards (Lovelace), the Great Room AV stack, and household automations on home.vino.network. Access/SSH/API/Z-Wave infra is owned by the fritzlab skill home-assistant (reference/home-assistant.md). Token: HA_ACCESS_TOKEN in ~/code/git/code.fritzlab.net/fritzlab/k8s-manager/.env.

## Editing dashboards (Lovelace) Both dashboards (`Overview` url_path `lovelace`, `Map`) are **storage mode** (UI-managed), not YAML — no file to edit. Drive over the WS API: - Read: `{"type":"lovelace/config"}` (no `url_path` = default `Overview`) → full config (`views[]`). - Write: `{"type":"lovelace/config/save","config":}` — **whole-config read-modify-write**, not per-view. Always back up the fetched config first; a bad save replaces every view. - Views use `subview: true` for the per-device remotes (reached by nav, not the top tab bar). Card commands: copy a *proven* button from a working view rather than guessing service/command strings. - No HACS, no custom themes (`frontend/get_themes` empty). Custom Lovelace cards: drop the JS in `/config/www/` (root-owned → `ssh -4 … sudo tee`), register via `{"type":"lovelace/resources/create","res_type":"module","url":"/local/.js?v=N"}`. Served at `https://home.vino.network/local/.js`. Browser caches resources — bump `?v=` and hard-refresh (mobile app: restart) to pick up changes. ## Great Room TV / AV topology TV = **Samsung Frame** (`media_player.the_frame_tv` power+vol+source `['TV','HDMI']`; `remote.the_frame_tv` needs Samsung `KEY_*` codes — see ). WoL power-on MAC `C8:A6:EF:AE:E5:FA` via `script.turn_on_great_room_tv_2`.

Sources feed an HDMI matrix; select.hdmi_matrix_vino_network_output_1 (named "Great Room TV") = current TV input, ..._output_3 = speakers. Options incl. Roku-Ultra, Roku-3, FireTvStick, From-GR-AVR, Kiosk1/2.

Matrix-source audio is the Denon AVR, not the TV: zones media_player.great_room (+ media_player.kitchen), source HDMI Matrix; volume = media_player.great_room, and the TV's own speaker is set near-mute by the building block. TV-direct audio = the TV itself (the remote card's volume is context-aware — see ).

Source switching = script.set_mode_great_room_*:

• movie → Roku Ultra (alias set-mode-great-room-roku-ultra), roku_3, fire_tv_stick, music, camera_scanner.
• Each sets both matrix outputs then runs script.building_block_set_great_room_to_hdmi_matrix (TV→HDMI, AVR zones on, vol 0.55, ALL ZONE STEREO).

Source devices: Roku (remote.roku_ultra/roku_3, commands lowercase home/back/up/down/left/right/select/info); Fire TV (remote.fire_tv_stick, commands UPPERCASE HOME/BACK/UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT/CENTER/INFO/MENU). App shortcuts via media_player.select_source (Roku Plex source = Plex - Free Movies & TV).

## Virtual remotes (Lovelace subviews, Overview dashboard) - `great-room-tv-remote` — **the main one.** A bespoke custom card `custom:great-room-remote-card`: plus-shaped D-pad, context-aware volume, source pills (set_mode scripts), apps/playback, power toggle. Fits an iPhone with no scrolling; details in . - `roku-ultra-remote`, `roku-3-remote`, `fire-tv-stick-remote` — older stock single-device remotes (still present).

URL: https://home.vino.network/lovelace/great-room-tv-remote. Launcher: a "Great Room TV" navigate-button under the Virtual Remotes heading on the kitchen_greatroom view (subviews aren't in the tab bar, so they need a navigate-button entry point).

Source-of-truth: `~/code/git/code.fritzlab.net/dfritz/great-room-remote-card/great-room-remote-card.js` (vanilla custom element, no build step; NOT yet a git remote). Deployed copy → HA `/config/www/great-room-remote-card.js`, resource `/local/great-room-remote-card.js?v=N`. Robust layout: plus-shaped CSS-grid D-pad (no abspos) with Back/Home/Info column beside it, wrapping grids, single delegated click handler. Fits an iPhone with no scroll (~630px, ≤660 budget); apps row collapses in TV mode. **Control target is explicit + visible** (a "Controlling: X" line + a `[Follow source] | [TV]` toggle): - *Follow source* (default): D-pad/transport/apps drive the device the matrix is on (Roku `select`/lowercase, Fire TV `CENTER`/UPPERCASE). Falls back to TV when the matrix state isn't a known source (e.g. `Viewport16`). - *TV*: forces `remote.the_frame_tv`. One-tap fallback if a source device (asleep Roku → "Error communicating with Roku API") doesn't respond. **Samsung `samsungtv` integration needs `KEY_*` codes** (`KEY_UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT/ENTER/RETURN/HOME/INFO`, `KEY_VOLUP/VOLDOWN`) — lowercase words return HTTP 200 but the TV silently ignores them (this is why the original lowercase remote never actually drove the TV). - Tapping a source pill switches the matrix (`set_mode` script) and snaps target back to Follow source. **Volume/mute are context-aware too** (per-profile `volume` entity): TV target → `media_player.the_frame_tv` (Samsung supports `volume_set`); source target → `media_player.great_room` (Denon AVR zone, the audio path for matrix sources). The slider uses a timestamp guard (not `activeElement`) so frequent `hass` updates don't snap the thumb back mid-drag on iOS. Frame TV can't launch apps via `select_source` (source_list only `['TV','HDMI']`), so apps only show for Roku/Fire. All entities/commands live in `DEFAULTS` (config-overridable). **Deploy after edit:** `node --check` then `cat …js | ssh -4 home-assistant.vino.network 'sudo tee /config/www/great-room-remote-card.js'`, bump resource `?v=` (WS `lovelace/resources/update`, resource_id `7ee4fcac14ea4a3b9ef76c0625a89721`), hard-refresh.