I’ve started having a similar issue in the past few weeks as well. I’ve got an automation dependent on my phone’s location and it stopped working. I don’t know if it was an Android app update or a Pixel update but I haven’t changed any settings recently.
I had to uninstall and reinstall the Companion app on that phone to get it working again. I’ve seen this before on two different phones (Pixel 7 and 6a)… this is the 2nd time on the 6a. I suspect its a bug in the Companion app.
Same here stopped working for me too. Have reinstalled app so will see if that helps. Something must have changed in app or haos as there the only things that have changed for me recently.
I believe the issue has been the new feature “remote connection security level”.
As soon as I stepped this down to less secure the app started working again.
It’s in your server settings of the companion app
That isnt the issue i had, i reinstalled and it works fine, no change to the security settings.
The android companion app is quirky and slow… it often has issues connecting to the server, even when local. Today i installed it on a brand new phone, and it would bot connect to the local url until i rebooted the phone. Everything else worked fine…i see this kinda stuff often. Multiple retries to connect.
nope, setup is fine. the companion app often just decides not to connect to the server (even when the mobile device is on the local Wifi) and the slowness is that I dont think the app itself has either ‘lazy read’ *just in time value loading) or its not optimized. I have a large system (185 automations, >6000 entities, many dashboard pages with some complex code) and I think the slowness is do to that.
In Discord i asked the same question about this issue and was replied that there is a bug in the latest update for those who use HA Cloud. It will be fixed in the next beta.
If you don’t use HA Cloud, please open an issue in the github page.
I’ve seen app connection issue since day 1 of using HA (a year ago or so). Its has connection issues for sure… this is likely a bug.
Slow-loading is not likely a bug but how they are refreshing the values, at minimum during the initial start/load of the app. If they do lazy-loading it should only load what is needed when a page is selected, or if they got fancy, they could load the ‘most used’ on initial start, and refresh that cache periodically.
I realized today the app will not update any values while connected over mobile network.
As soon as I get home everything works, but outside I can only read values
yup, had the same issue. across 3 different phones this happened over the past year… all months apart, thus it was not the server-side. The only way to get it working again was to reinstall on that phone.
I just noticed there is an update out on play store, at least for beta users.
When I disabled wifi and used my mock location app then HA reported the position.
So probably solved…