Text notifications on Apple TV via virtual HomeKit doorbell

I have been browsing this forum for a long time, and this is the first time I am trying to contribute back.

I have been trying to get notifications from Home Assistant to my Apple TV ever since I got one. Previously, I used Fire TV notifications in a lot of my automations and wanted to replicate that for the newer hardware.

I am not a programmer in any way, so I built the whole thing with the help of AI. (Or AI built it with help from me!)

How it works: text passed by an automation is converted into an image by a Python script. Based on the amount of text, the font size automatically scales to fit the canvas. This image is then passed to HomeKit via a virtual doorbell entity.

The detailed codes and process that I used is consolidated here.

I would love your feedback and ideas regarding this!

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