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Beyond the Remote
Astrion started as a remote. The community transformed it into a platform.
A living archive of interfaces, integrations, and experiments created by the Sanytron community.
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Updated August 2026
🌱 How Astrion Evolved
From a remote to an open platform — shaped by the community
December 2025
Astrion Remote Launches
A dedicated touchscreen remote for Home Assistant. A better way to interact with lights, media, and automations.
January 2026
Community Begins Exploring
Users start asking "What can I build with it?" instead of "What can it do?" First custom dashboards and alternative launchers appear.
Early experiments, including Chykan_Hunter's Node-RED workflows, began exploring Astrion as an input layer for automation rather than just a remote.
April – May 2026
Home Assistant Community Adoption
Astrion became part of the open smart home ecosystem. Users started integrating Astrion into their own workflows, not just using official features.
July 2026
Physical Button Framework Introduced
t0m1o1's HA-hotkeys project shows that every physical button can become a native Home Assistant event. This idea influences future firmware.
August 2026
Astrion Becomes a Community Platform
Multiple independent projects — from automation workflows and physical input frameworks to native dashboards, local IR control, and voice integrations — began demonstrating Astrion as a platform.
🌱 Community Origins
The first ideas didn't arrive as polished applications. They appeared as experiments.
🧠Chykan_HunterEarly Community Pioneer
Automation as Intention
Early Node-RED experiments explored Astrion as an input layer for complex automation workflows — not just controlling devices, but participating in larger systems.
⌨️t0m1o1
Physical Input as Events
HA-hotkeys demonstrated that every physical button could become a native Home Assistant event, turning hardware inputs into automation triggers.
🎨Aurelien_PERARD
The Remote as a Runtime
Custom Dashboard explored local UI, Harmony, IR, and standalone control — showing Astrion could operate independently of any single system.
🤖biggobird
The Interface as Software
Native Kotlin/Compose demonstrated that the entire software experience could be replaced — no Lovelace, no browser, no cloud.
Different projects. Different approaches. One emerging idea: the remote doesn't have to define the experience.
🚀 Featured Projects
What the community built
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Community-builtOpen Source
by t0m1o1
Native Home Assistant Hotkeys
A native approach where every physical button becomes a Home Assistant event.
Instead of the remote controlling the home, the home automation system decides
what each action means.
"Every physical button should become a native Home Assistant event."
A completely alternative Astrion experience built around local-first control. It combines a custom launcher, native Android dashboard, direct Harmony Hub integration, configurable physical controls, standalone IR activities, Pronto Hex support, and a visual dashboard editor — with the project steadily moving toward fully local, standalone operation.
"A demonstration that Astrion hardware can support completely different software philosophies."
A pure native Android experience. Built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose,
featuring WebSocket updates, interactive floorplans, Plex integration,
Assist voice, and hardware button remapping.
Using the Astrion Voice button, Marcus connected Apple TV Siri Voice directly
into Home Assistant workflows. Works by emulating a HomeKit remote using Apple's
Target Control protocol. No MFi hardware required.
"A simple hardware button became a bridge between ecosystems."
A new generation of smart home interfaces is emerging — exploring what local-first, community-built interaction can become.
🧪 Latest Community Experiments
What people are building right now
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August 2026 · Voice Integration
Native Apple TV Siri Voice Integration
Marcus_Adolfsson added native Apple TV Siri Voice support using the Astrion Voice button.
The integration works by emulating a HomeKit remote and streams microphone audio directly
to Siri over HomeKit Data Stream. No MFi hardware required.
Aurelien_PERARD's custom dashboard is evolving from an alternative UI into a standalone local control environment. Version 0.4.0 adds direct IR activity execution through Astrion's built-in IR blaster, Pronto Hex support, a new FanCard, in-place dashboard editing, a physical-device preview, and improved Wi-Fi startup reliability.
biggobird's native dashboard continues to explore what's possible with pure Android
on Astrion. "No Lovelace. No browser. No cloud." — a fully native experience with
WebSocket updates, floorplans, Plex integration, and Assist voice.
💡 Ideas That Are Shaping The Future of Smart Home
Some of Astrion's biggest ideas did not come from our roadmap. They came from conversations.
Chykan_Hunter
One of the earliest
Automation as Intention
A smart home is not a collection of entities. It is a collection of intentions, contexts, and experiences. Astrion shouldn't just send commands — it should participate in workflows.
Gary
Activity-first thinking
Users don't want to control devices. They want to watch a movie, play music, or relax.
The interface should ask "What are you trying to do?" not "Which device do you want?"
Faceman
AV as a system
A television is not just a television. It's an ecosystem of devices that should work
together naturally. One device at a time is not how people experience media.
Aurelien_PERARD & biggobird
Astrion as a platform
Instead of asking for new features, they simply built their own. Custom launchers.
Native dashboards. Alternative interaction models. The hardware became something
people wanted to build upon.
🧬 What Makes an Astrion Project?
Every Astrion project shares three principles
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Interface Freedom
The device is not locked to one interface. Build your own experience on top of it.
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Local Intelligence
Your home remains yours. No cloud required. Local-first by design.
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Human Intent
Technology serves experiences, not devices. The interface should ask "What are you trying to do?"
✨ Don't just use the interface. Build one.
Built something with Astrion, UltraBARX, or iPano? Share your setup with the community.
Custom dashboards, automation stories, hardware mods, and integrations — all welcome.
