Ariela - Home Assistant Android Client

What do you mean? :smiley:

Not for the moment, but thank you for the suggestion, i will add it to my TODO list.

Hello all,

Version 1.3.2.2 is out.
What’s new:

  • NEW: webview mode: added possibility to refresh page (reload)
  • added ability to scroll badges in order to fit more items
  • fixed Fan speed selection issue
  • other UI changes
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Very useful feature but looks like there is a bug. It is not possible to scroll the page up because Ariela is refreshing the page instead. It happens only on configuration pages. Lovelace pages work fine

Thank you for letting me know. I will investigate the issue.

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Hello,
Version 1.3.2.3 is out. What’s new

  • updated Spanish localization
  • NEW: ability to show entity state in notification
  • disabled swipe to refresh option in the webview mode

Note: Swipe to refresh option has been removed for now in webview (maybe another way it will be implemented in the future). Also, i have in works swipes in order to change tabs in webview mode so please stay tuned :smiley:

Is anyone else getting an error stating “Integration fcm-android not found when trying to verify its notify platform.” when trying to ‘Check Config’ within HA? Started happening after 0.92 upgrade, even after following all the info on Github incl. creation of the empty __ init __.py file (ignore the spaces, this reply was formatting the double underscore weird, I have it correct in HA). I’m super bummed to have broken my notifications, but am surprised I’m not seeing any reports of similar issues!

I will make tomorrow a step by step tutorial regarding this in order to be fixed.

Same here!

But tried under the same folder to create a file named manifest.json with the following code:

{
  "domain": "fcm-android",
  "name": "Ariela Client Home Assistant Notify",
  "documentation": "https://github.com/MCrissDev/HANotify",
  "dependencies": [],
  "codeowners": [],
  "requirements": []
}

At least the config checker accepts it and the Notifications are coming through.
Maybe Ionut has another trick or corrections tomorrow when he is back :slight_smile:

Unfortunately i do not have any other trick. Indeed a manifest.json must be created also (beside __init__.py) in the notify script.
Updated instructions can be found here: GitHub - MCrissDev/HANotify: Android actionable notifications for Home Assistant and Ariela client

@Ionut

Ariela client has always been using about 2-3GB of data per month… seems a bit excessive and it is getting rather expensive. I do love the app, perhaps one of my settings is causing this.

I do have 4 MQTT and the location sensors active. I do have it set to use the web UI. I always update to the latest version however this has been happening for 2-3 months across all updates since I installed Ariela.

I guess loading the web UI every time causes some data usage but definitely not 3GB per month on 4G… I seldom use Ariela remotely, only at home however it reports it has used 2.46GB of 4G data so far this month (not including WiFi).

I do not have any camera streaming or pictures loading on the interface, it’s all plain groups, switches, thermostats, sensors,etc. At most the only component that is more intensive is the mini-graph custom lovelace card but it is text and it gets rendered on the browser.

I do spend tons of time browsing stuff on Chrome but here’s the usage so far this month for my apps:

Ariela 2.46GB
Chrome 2.17GB usage
Instagram 1.97GB usage

I have the following settings enabled:

Common

  • Auto-reconnect
  • Full screen mode
  • Scroll long text
  • Home Wi-Fi networks set
  • Start at boot
  • Start after update

Device Tracker (I seldom move anywhere else, I live a block away from my office)

  • Tracking Mode: GPS
  • Updates Period: 5 minutes
  • Updates Position: 50 meters

MQTT

  • MQTT Client: Build-In (configured to go over the internet to my domain over unsecured HTTP)
  • Sensors: Battery, WiFi, Ariela Availability, Alarm, Bluetooth

UI

  • Web UI

Notifications

  • All disabled (I use HTML5 notifications)

Server Connection

  • Read timeout: 10
  • Connect timeout: 15
  • Internal and external IP are set
  • Use Internal IP when connected to Home WiFi

Hope you can point me in the right direction, but if anything maybe MQTT is using most of the data but not sure how can I pinpoint the culprit…

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Hello,

Can you switch the MQTT from Build-In to Home Assistant and see if the data consumption improves?

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Hi, maybe this information helps a little.
I use Ariela only for watching the system information and use the lovelace interface in order to manage the light and as replacement for my harmony control.
No MQTT and no device tracking. The app is closed when unused.
Ariela used 599 MB mobile Data and 870MB W-Lan this month. The app is called at least once a day in average.
Some days not or only once (on travel) and some days more often.
So you can expect, that around 600 MB to 1 GB will be used only for loading data.
The rest could be MQTT and tracking

I will give it a try, this will take me a few days to be able to compare the data usage. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hi Ionut, any chance of Ariela supporting this swipe functionality in webview?

I’ve added the component and it seems to work fine in Firefox / Chrome but Ariela webview doesn’t seem to work.

Swipe between tabs will be build in Ariela without having any additional components :smiley:

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Ah cool thanks :slight_smile:

Same here. I have climate controls linked to both opentherm_gw and homegear. Ariela crashes on both when clicking to open the controls of a particular entity.

I have been seeing something similar lately. Right now it sits at 300MB in 10 days. Some of that is me opening the app and controlling things, but for the most part it just runs in the background.

For reference though, GPS Logger has used 157MB in that same amount of time, and it doesn’t do anything but track my coordinates.

Can you share the logs please?

I have send a debug log to the e-mail as specified in the app. Thanks for your support!

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