I think there still might be valid situations when using http on the watch for connecting to HA over internet is still secure that I haven’t thought off initially: such as by using a VPN client on phone to connect to home router whilst HA doesn’t have port forwarding enabled (so HA is still accessible by 192.168.x.y on LAN).
Then, if the watch connects over bluetooth to phone, the entire chain doesn’t use unsecured components (except, off course, for bluetooth or the VPN connection itself ) but I don’t have a Wear OS watch to test.
Yeap, 2/multi FA is quite nice to use and not only in this case.
There is no external IP as the machine is not internet facing. If I need to access Home Assistant from outside the local network I do it via my VPN.
I forgot to mention that I have tried the switching the WiFi APs for the watch and phone, plus making sure they were both on the same AP, but it didn’t make a difference.
Don’t even try to connect to HA over a http connection as you are providing easy access to your house for (almost) the entire internet; the username and password are sent in clear. And, with (probably) same password for several accounts/devices, madness follows.
First set HA to be accessible over https (if using Hassio, I found Duckdns + Nginx addons quite easy but there are different opinions from the community so you might want to check them up) and only then worry about connecting your watch
Hi,
The machine is not accessible from the internet, unless someone aquires my VPN certificates and pass phrases, at which point I have much larger concerns than home assistant being accessible . The picture is redacted purely from force of habit.
Oh, and I haven’t reused a password for decades.
Please, it is possible to add a setting for an external MQTT now that MQTT client is available?
MQTT it’s my only chance to reach Home Assistant from outside.
Having the possibility to connect to receive notification on the phone via MQTT is lightweight on the battery and on the data usage.
Hello,
Unfortunately is not kinda easy. Everything in the app is made in the way that is requiring connection to Home Assistant. I will think on a method to do that and see what i can do.
The watch shouldn’t be directly accessing HASS, the base phone app (Ariela) should be accessing everything from the HASS server and sending it to the watch via bluetooth (or that the watch request a refresh from the base phone app connected to the HASS server). That is how most Android Wear apps do things…maybe perhaps it would be cool to use a MQTT translational layer between phone and watch, and just buttons and textual/numerical sensor values would be shown in the watch…so no pictures and stuff like that.
Also regarding the phone app disconnecting and reconnecting, couldn’t you make it ping the HASS server in regular intervals or something so that it would be connected all the time…its annoying to see the disconnected thing, even tho’ it reconnects fast.
In Ariela, conditional cards are always shown and dont show any cards that are coming after in the same tab.
Also the light card brightness slider works now since 1.2.9.7 but the sliding value goes only between 0-100 (about halfway full bright). Most lights have brightness values of 0-255.
Something like this will require always for phone / wear device to reading data (like we do in credentials)
and update things. Having such process i believe can kill performance and battery. Still i will investigate.
I will add some options i Ariela that would improve those disconnecting time ( connect timeout, read timeout).
Issue will be fixed on the next version
I will take a look into this problem. Thank you for reporting it.
Hi there. Using ariela since few days now and I’m thinking about buying it (and make the French translation to grow the WAF here)
Just a disturbing thing : I use the filter card for my lights (quick view of what’s on). And on Lovelace this card has a header toggle to power off all lights but it’s not here in ariela. Could you make it appears ?
Little teaser for tomorrow’s update: MQTT Next Alarm sensor.
Having this enabled you will be able to know when the next alarm on your Android device is scheduled.
Hi Ionut,
If tracking mode is set to GPS in Ariela pro, HA shows my device at home, but coordinates are not exactly the same as the home zone. But if set to Wifi, then my device is always Away, coordinates sent to HA being 0,0. Home Wifi networks are set properly in Ariela config. Is this the intended behavior or am I missing somehting in my config?
Why always, just when the Wear app would be launched and in view on the Android Wear watch, when not in view, for example when looking at the watch menu or have other apps in view, the updating would not need to be in effect. So for example just a bluetooth “ping” from the Wear app to the phone just that it knows its alive, and then when the user wants to see the info send the entire package of data over bluetooth.
) but I don’t have a Wear OS watch to test.