Joanna Idea Scout - 2026-09-13

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Joanna Idea Scout

• Date: 2026-09-13
• Generated: 2026-09-13T07:21:18.142Z
• Digest items: 9
• Sources: GitHub, HA Community

This daily issue keeps all Idea Scout findings in one place for review, regardless of source adapter. These are inspiration items, not bugfixes or support threads.

Ideas

1. [GitHub] jxlarrea/kiosk-satellite - Camera popup

• Source: Camera popup jxlarrea/kiosk-satellite#520
• Strength: strong
• Area: dashboard
• Summary: Add a non-full-screen camera popup to the kiosk dashboard so users can view one or more camera streams while keeping the rest of the dashboard or screensaver visible.
• Suggested practical implementation: Change the kiosk dashboard camera interaction to open a modal overlay containing the selected Frigate/Wyze camera stream or a four-camera grid, with a close control that returns to the underlying dashboard or screensaver.
• Potential added value: Keeps room, energy, and other dashboard information visible during camera checks and reduces navigation overhead for quick visual monitoring.

2. [GitHub] jxlarrea/kiosk-satellite - Can we have a separate screensaver idle timeout for nights/sleep time

• Source: Can we have a separate screensaver idle timeout for nights/sleep time jxlarrea/kiosk-satellite#516
• Strength: strong
• Area: automation
• Summary: Expose and automate a separate nighttime idle timeout for bedroom kiosk screensavers.
• Suggested practical implementation: Add a bedroom-kiosk automation that sets a short screensaver idle timeout during the configured sleep window and restores the normal daytime timeout outside it, using the kiosk integration's supported timeout control and existing schedule or sleep-state helper.
• Potential added value: Reduces nighttime light and visual distraction while preserving quick access to temperature controls, without requiring manual timeout changes or duplicating separate bedroom dashboard logic.

3. [GitHub] maxi1134/Home-Assistant-Config - Add a check of the cameras occupancy before triggering the horns with the Mobile actionnable notification

• Source: Add a check of the cameras occupancy before triggering the horns with the Mobile actionnable notification maxi1134/Home-Assistant-Config#86
• Strength: strong
• Area: automation
• Summary: Require a fresh Frigate occupancy check before activating camera-adjacent security horns, and require explicit confirmation when the area is no longer occupied.
• Suggested practical implementation: Update the shared actionable-horn automation or script to recheck the relevant camera's current person occupancy when the horn command is received; activate the nearby horn only when occupancy is still detected, otherwise send a new confirmation notification whose action invokes the horn script after explicit confirmation.
• Potential added value: Reduces accidental horn activations from stale or unintended notification taps while preserving rapid response when a person remains present.

4. [GitHub] home-assistant/iOS - Keep the configured icon color on CarPlay Quick Access rows

• Source: Keep the configured icon color on CarPlay Quick Access rows home-assistant/iOS#5755
• Strength: recap
• Area: dashboard
• Summary: Home Assistant's iOS companion app now preserves a user-selected entity icon color across inactive states in CarPlay Quick Access, widgets, and watch views, while retaining live state colors when no custom color is configured.
• Suggested practical implementation: Update the shared Home Assistant dashboard styling or card configuration for household control views to apply explicitly configured icon colors regardless of entity state, while leaving default state-based colors in place for entities without a custom color.
• Potential added value: Could make recurring household controls easier to recognize across active and inactive states and reduce visual inconsistency between dashboard surfaces.

5. [GitHub] jdeath/CheckRoyalCaribbeanPrice - History layer follow-ups: consistent sail_date/nights across rows, plus bookings/promos snapshot tables

• Source: History layer follow-ups: consistent sail_date/nights across rows, plus bookings/promos snapshot tables jdeath/CheckRoyalCaribbeanPrice#113
• Strength: recap
• Area: dashboard
• Summary: Adds opt-in SQLite history snapshots for cruise bookings and promotions, while normalizing sail dates and night counts across reservation-related rows so one sailing groups consistently.
• Suggested practical implementation: Add a Cruise Tracker package or dashboard component that reads the existing SQLite history database through a supported sensor/workflow boundary and presents the latest booking snapshot, active promotions, final-payment date, balance state, and normalized price history for each sailing.
• Potential added value: Could make cruise status and price decisions easier to review by combining current booking context with historical fare data, while reducing ambiguity caused by inconsistent date and night fields.

6. [GitHub] jxlarrea/kiosk-satellite - No indication when Home Assistant is unreachable but the network is fine

• Source: No indication when Home Assistant is unreachable but the network is fine jxlarrea/kiosk-satellite#512
• Strength: recap
• Area: dashboard
• Summary: Expose Home Assistant connectivity loss on wall-panel dashboards with a configurable toast or blocking notice and a grace period for expected restarts.
• Suggested practical implementation: Add a Home Assistant dashboard-level connectivity indicator for the Fully Kiosk panels, driven by HA availability and delayed 10–15 seconds before appearing; use a non-blocking toast by default and provide an optional persistent notice for critical panels.
• Potential added value: Reduces silent failed interactions and unnecessary panel power-cycles, while limiting transient noise during planned Home Assistant restarts.

7. [GitHub] RoggeOhta/awesome-codex-cli - Add OrcaReplay to Monitoring & Analytics

• Source: Add OrcaReplay to Monitoring & Analytics RoggeOhta/awesome-codex-cli#263
• Strength: recap
• Area: general
• Summary: OrcaReplay records Codex model exchanges and replays them without provider calls, while still executing tool calls for real.
• Suggested practical implementation: Add a local BearClaw replay-fixture workflow that captures sanitized Codex tool-exchange traces and re-runs them against test endpoints with external model egress disabled, while preventing real infrastructure or personal-data side effects.
• Potential added value: Could make prompt and routing regressions faster to reproduce and reduce dependence on live model calls, provided tool execution is isolated and fixtures are sanitized.

8. [HA Community] HA Community Projects - HomePrep — Household emergency preparedness in Home Assistant

• Source: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/homeprep-household-emergency-preparedness-in-home-assistant/1024896
• Strength: recap
• Area: packages
• Summary: HomePrep presents a local-first Home Assistant system for tracking emergency supplies, expiry dates, recurring inspections, preparedness targets, and reminders through a dedicated UI and Lovelace cards.
• Suggested practical implementation: Add a Home Assistant preparedness package that defines helpers for critical-supply expiry dates and inspection deadlines, then create one automation that sends a Telegram Joanna alert when an item or inspection is overdue or when Powerwall backup readiness drops below the configured threshold.
• Potential added value: Could make outage preparation more visible and reduce reliance on manually remembered supply checks while keeping the first implementation focused on Carlo's existing energy and backup workflows.

9. [HA Community] HA Community Projects - WallMode: a free, open-source Android kiosk app for Home Assistant

• Source: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wallmode-a-free-open-source-android-kiosk-app-for-home-assistant/1024625
• Strength: recap
• Area: automation
• Summary: WallMode adds a motion-aware Android kiosk shell around existing Home Assistant dashboards, including screensavers, local camera motion detection, MQTT display controls, temporary notifications, and recovery behavior.
• Suggested practical implementation: Add a kiosk automation package that publishes MQTT display-control commands for the wall tablet: enter the screensaver when the relevant room is unoccupied, wake the dashboard on room presence or camera motion, and show temporary event prompts while preserving the underlying dashboard.
• Potential added value: This could reduce idle-screen noise and improve wall-tablet responsiveness while providing a reusable path for temporary household notifications and dashboard recovery.

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Joanna refreshed the daily Idea Scout issue for 2026-09-13 from HA Community at 2026-09-13T07:21:18.142Z.

• [recap] HA Community Projects: HomePrep presents a local-first Home Assistant system for tracking emergency supplies, expiry dates, recurring inspections, preparedness targets, and reminders through a dedicated UI and Lovelace cards. (https://community.home-assistant.io/t/homeprep-household-emergency-preparedness-in-home-assistant/1024896)
• [recap] HA Community Projects: WallMode adds a motion-aware Android kiosk shell around existing Home Assistant dashboards, including screensavers, local camera motion detection, MQTT display controls, temporary notifications, and recovery behavior. (https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wallmode-a-free-open-source-android-kiosk-app-for-home-assistant/1024625)

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