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Screen Saver

  • Idle-triggered overlay: after a configurable idle timeout (any tap, key press, or scroll resets it), a full-screen video or camera-feed overlay takes over. Any tap dismisses it. Shared across every Family Hub card on the same dashboard, so a dashboard with several of these cards only ever runs one screen saver, not one per card.
  • Per-login opt-in: the source (video or camera) and idle time are shared household-wide, but whether the screen saver ever arms itself is chosen per Home Assistant login under Settings → Screen Saver: a wall tablet's login can have it on while a phone's stays off.
  • Disable while a recipe is open: an optional toggle that pauses the idle countdown while a recipe's detail view is open, so it doesn't kick in mid-recipe.
  • A standalone companion card (family-hub-screensaver-card) brings the same shared screen saver to a dashboard that doesn't otherwise have a Family Hub card on it, with an optional "return to this dashboard on wake" setting.