rusty4444/now-showing-ha

Now Showing HA turns a wall mounted tablet or any browser into a cinema style marquee display for Home Assistant, the popular home automation platform. It shows what is currently playing on Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Kodi, Apple TV, generic streaming devices, or Kaleidescape, with poster art, a bulb frame animation, and title overlays similar to a movie theater sign. It is meant to sit on a tablet using Fully Kiosk Browser, but any modern browser works too. There are three ways to install it. As a Home Assistant add-on, the tokens needed to talk to Home Assistant stay on the server side rather than in the browser. As a Docker Compose service, it reads a URL and token from an environment file, again keeping secrets off the tablet. Or as a frontend only page, where a single HTML file is copied into Home Assistant and configured locally, useful for simple setups. All three paths share the same kiosk interface. Beyond just showing what is playing, the project has a Coming Soon mode that rotates upcoming movies and episodes pulled from Radarr and Sonarr, complete with posters, countdowns, and configurable marquee text, so a tablet can act as a screensaver between viewings. Tapping the screen brings up an info panel with synopsis, ratings, duration, and playback progress when Plex details are configured. There is also optional filtering so a shared Plex server only shows sessions for one user, IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes style rating badges, several visual theme presets, and screen burn in protection for tablets that stay on for long periods. Most of the visual choices, like frame style, accent color, background color, and corner rounding, are adjustable through a setup screen rather than by editing code directly, which lowers the bar for someone customizing their own display. The project is aimed at Home Assistant users who already run a media server and want a dedicated, decorative now playing screen rather than building one from scratch.