Android Widget Takes >10 Seconds to Toggle Tuya Switch

Deanifish · September 10, 2021, 12:01am

Hello,

I have recently installed Home Assistant on a Pi 4, and was hoping to add Tuya switches as widgets on my Galaxy S7’s home screen. I managed to set them up but when I press the widget, all I get is a spinning circle for just over 10 seconds before the switch is toggled.

I am using the switch.toggle service. I have tired the usual turn it off and on again, checked with the app open or closed, and cleared caches where I can - still no luck. My friend’s iPhone 6s toggles switches almost instantly.

Switching from inside the app is as quick as one could expect.

Is this a issue with how I have it setup or is this an unavoidable problem with how Android/Home Assistant handles widgets? Are there any alternative apps out there that can get the job done?

Thanks,
Dean

dshokouhi · September 10, 2021, 12:49am

look at the logs section under app configuration to see if there is an error the lines to look at will have ButtonWidget after the date/time.

Deanifish · September 10, 2021, 8:42pm

Had a look at the logs, and there are no errors appearing that I can see. It’s a bit quicker today, at around 3 seconds from button press to action. Seems like this time is taken up by the ‘Calling widget service’ step.

09-10 21:18:21.167 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: Broadcast received:
09-10 21:18:21.167 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: Broadcast action: io.homeassistant.companion.android.widgets.button.ButtonWidget.CALL_SERVICE
09-10 21:18:21.167 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: AppWidgetId: 81
09-10 21:18:21.169 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: Calling widget service
09-10 21:18:24.001 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: Service Call Data loaded:
09-10 21:18:24.001 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: domain: switch
09-10 21:18:24.001 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: service: toggle
09-10 21:18:24.001 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: service_data: {“entity_id”:[“switch.84651456tjstr49tj4t5”,“switch.21456844thjdf97fj6r1”]}
09-10 21:18:24.005 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: Sending service call to Home Assistant
09-10 21:18:24.007 8854 8854 D UrlRepository: localUrl is: false and usesInternalSsid is: true
09-10 21:18:24.915 8854 8854 D ButtonWidget: Service call sent successfully

I tried Ariela for comparison and I get instantaneous responses from that app’s widgets.

dshokouhi · September 10, 2021, 8:43pm

looks like the delay was in retrieving the data from our database which is odd, what device is this on?

edit: these are the lines in question for the delay, curious to see if the 10 second delay has similar results

github.com

home-assistant/android/blob/c5e3d4a124c85d59c8caa51d09c6a861cb748c8e/app/src/main/java/io/homeassistant/companion/android/widgets/button/ButtonWidget.kt#L183-L209


      
          Log.d(TAG, "Calling widget service")
          
          // Set up progress bar as immediate feedback to show the click has been received
          // Success or failure feedback will come from the mainScope coroutine
          val loadingViews = RemoteViews(context.packageName, R.layout.widget_button)
          val appWidgetManager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(context)
          
          loadingViews.setViewVisibility(R.id.widgetProgressBar, View.VISIBLE)
          loadingViews.setViewVisibility(R.id.widgetImageButtonLayout, View.GONE)
          appWidgetManager.partiallyUpdateAppWidget(appWidgetId, loadingViews)
          
          val widget = buttonWidgetDao.get(appWidgetId)
          
          mainScope.launch {
              // Change color of background image for feedback
              var views = getWidgetRemoteViews(context, appWidgetId)
          
              // Set default feedback as negative
              var feedbackColor = R.drawable.widget_button_background_red
              var feedbackIcon = R.drawable.ic_clear_black

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Deanifish · September 11, 2021, 12:12am

The device is a Galaxy S7 running android 8.0.0, and it is calling for a teckin wifi smart plug if that helps