A launcher for Android TV & Google TV
Your apps, your cameras, your alerts and your Home Assistant, together on one calm screen. No banners to scroll past. No account to create.
Install the APKOpen source on GitHubApache 2.0. Google Play to come.
This TV works. Click it, then use ← ↑ ↓ →, Enter and Esc, or the remote. This TV works. Tap anything on it, or use the remote.
What's on it
How cameras connect depends on your TV's hardware: most TVs open them all together, and for older TVs one setting opens them in turn. Give each camera an RTSP address, H.264 or H.265, and an optional substream for the grid. HomeBoard plays as many live as your TV can decode, and shows the rest as their last picture.
When a camera fails, it tells you why, and keeps trying.
Pick your sensors and they appear by room, next to the weather and its hourly forecast. Add action buttons to the top bar and run a scene from the sofa.
See the last seven days of alerts, newest first. Press OK on one to play its clip full screen. No phone needed.
Continue Watching puts what you started in the last two weeks first, at most five per app. Apps decide what they share with the TV, so what appears varies from one app, and one TV, to the next.
Private by Design
There's no account and no analytics, and there isn't a HomeBoard server. The app connects to the addresses you enter, and to other TVs on your network when you transfer settings.
And the rest
Move tiles, hide the ones you never open, see app info or uninstall, all from the tile's own menu.
An optional helper brings you to HomeBoard when you press Home. If the launcher fails to start a few times in a row, it switches itself off.
Set up one TV, then send its settings to another on your network. No cloud or USB stick involved, though you can also export to a file.
Is it the camera, or the network? A small ping tool answers that without leaving the sofa.
Show free memory in the top bar. Keep 1 to 72 hours of logs, with logins and tokens stripped out.
Runs from Android 9. One setting minimizes simultaneous video streams for TVs with few decoders.
Install
Both always get the latest version. AFTVnews shows a brief redirect page first, which may include an ad.
HomeBoard is out as an APK, and its code is public. Google Play comes next.
This needs adb on your computer, with the TV and computer on the same network.
The latest release page lists the file's size and SHA-256.
adb connect TV_IP_ADDRESS:5555adb install -r HomeBoard.apkQuestions
No. Each is optional, and you only set up what you have. Without any of them, HomeBoard is your apps and Continue Watching on a quiet screen.
You open it like an app. To make the Home button bring you to it, turn on the optional helper, which uses Android's Accessibility service. You choose between catching the Home button, which opens HomeBoard at once, and reopening after the TV's own home screen, which shows it first for a few seconds on some TVs.
The helper is opt-in. It uses Android's Accessibility service to see remote button presses and which app's window opens, and doesn't save or send any of it.
Each app chooses what it publishes to the TV, and the same app can behave differently on two TVs. HomeBoard shows what's there: first what you started recently, then suggestions from apps that have nothing in progress.
HomeBoard loads poster images from the addresses that your other apps publish.
That depends on the TV's video decoders. The advanced camera settings dialog shows your TV's limits. Older TVs may only manage one or two streams, so the Cameras tab can use still pictures instead.
No, so keep it safe and delete it when you're done.
No, it's a simplified recreation of the app that runs in your browser. It has the same layout and icons, but not every feature, and its cameras, sensors and apps are made up.