Android companion app lux sensor update is not happening every minute

Mobile Apps
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I came up with a good idea of repurposing my old Huawei P10 lite for detecting ambient light lux value (dedicated lux sensor).

It kind of works. But even when I set all the devices power settings to be unrestrictive and home assistant app to persistently be connected to the server, it just doesn’t update as often.

I set it to always update every 1 minute. But the update happens sometimes 3 minute ago or other times 7 hours ago.

Is it expected to happen? Am I better off buying a lux sensor? Or is there other things that I can try?
For example, ditch HA companion app for dedicated sensor updating app (if it even exists…)

2

Although unlikely, this could be because the value is the same.
Did you make sure the sensor update frequency is set to fast?

3

Yes! I confirmed that sensor update frequency is set to “fast always”.

As for the value not changing, how do I confirm that? On dashboard I have it show the value but not seem to change.

4

Make it darker or turn on a light and shine it on the tablet.