One of the metrics I am interested in having in my Home Assistant dashboard is the number of Android ADB devices are connected at a given time. There are occasionally times when devices reboot and connections are not automatically re-established. This poses a problem when attempting to control these devices.
One way to combat this is to have a sensor that is able to get the status of the total number of connected ADB devices and display the in a gauge in HA.
One of the most important and unique configurations in my HomeAssistant is the control panel used for my home theater. Since this is a space that family and friends are frequent fliers, it was important to keep the controls as simple as possible. If you have dabbled in the world of home theater you know its very easy to amass a variety of different controllers and certain nuances related to a setup that do not articulate well to people who do not use the environment every day.
For these reasons, I set out to come up with a solid solution that would be simple to maintain (read: works 95% of the time without intervention) and teach anyone who would be a potential user of the theater.