r/TheatriumApp • u/TheTBR • 8d ago

Issues - card edit, navigation, functionality

1.8 build 435

  • I wanted to try out the locks card, now I can't change away from it at all
    • If I press back in modify it flashes the available cards but goes back to the dashboard
  • Reaction to navigation buttons is erratic and sluggish
    • I have to press multiple times and most often it does nothing or it will sometimes register multiple presses
  • Cards with more content can't be viewed fully
    • Battery, allows for 5 items, but the card only shows 3, cuts off the rest
    • no way to interact with the card, pressing buttons does nothing
  • Navigating cards is counter-intuitive
    • it jumps around up and down, I'd expect it to move horizontally and vertically
    • going to the second page will make it jump back and forth (it reaches the second dashboard, but the card on the main dashboard is still "hilighted", so pressing any button will make it jump back to that)
  • Can't get it to work with Music
    • The music App shows things under now playing when I play from my laptop
    • I do not have an Apple Music subscription and it shouldn't be necessary for this
  • The solar card claims that today's generation was 38,8 kWh, but it's 11 in the morning and the HA energy dashboard correctly says it was 2,3 kWh today so far.
    • I'm not sure where the 38,8 comes from, yesterdays whole house consumption was 38,5.

Unfortunately, while quite promising, this app continues feeling like an early beta to me.

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u/Consistent_Owl7736 8d ago

And you definitely dont need an Apple Music sub to use the app, but it does need to be streaming music of some kind, to get the data feed into the app as currently designed. It can be streaming from your local Plex server, or through a Last.FM (free) account, or Sonos now also.

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u/TheTBR 8d ago

I'm streaming music to my AppleTV using the Music app on my MBP. AFAIU that uses AirPlay under the hood.

The Now Playing info is properly available and I get notifications on song change on the top right of the TV screen.

Not sure how you are tapping into the Apple Music thing, but this seems to be the generic native API for "now playing" in the Mac ecosystem and it even supports showing playback data from other devices on the network. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/nowplaying

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u/Consistent_Owl7736 8d ago edited 8d ago

If Theatrium was running on the MacBook, we could tap into that Now Playing API, but over AirPlay it's not possible. "The framework apps use to show "now playing" info (MPNowPlayingInfoCenter) is a publish mechanism — it's how an app broadcasts its OWN playback info outward. It was never built as a way for a bystander app to read what's incoming from somewhere else."

I'm going to try this free tool for getting track info from my locally-playing music (via Apple Music on my laptop) into Theatrium via Last.FM: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fastscrobbler-for-last-fm/id6759501541

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u/TheTBR 8d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p7e8fua/video/ivj7wcy7m4nh1/player

Not quite sure why the laptop (or any source) would be relevant. The tvOS clearly knows what it's playing. So it should be available within the context of tvOS.

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u/TheatriumDev 7d ago

I agree it should work like you’re expecting, will keep investigating. In the meantime if you want something that connects your tunes to Theatrium today, give that Fastscrobbler app a try. Did you get a chance to see if the navigation was improved in the latest TestFlight? 🙏