At the moment I believe that uninstalling the Companion App deletes all configured widgets, links and panes which sometimes could be many. A save and import feature even on different devices would be very useful I think everyone.
the app is actually using auto backup from android, which is stored on google drive and restored as needed like when you reinstall the app.
widgets need to be recreated as we cannot ad them back, there are something that just cant be restored unfortunately.
Thanks, but that’s a real shame
Restore from Android is not working. All my settings are gone as in clear, new installation. E.g. no one sensor is active.
The lack of restoring the widgets option is a pity as well. The system can copy and place Companion widgets placeholders. Unfortunately, they are blank of course if the Companion app has no widgets info.
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I completely understand we can’t backup widgets (due to the nature of Android Widgets you can’t backup and insert them after it) But what Home Assistant could do and what would be awesome is setup / save widget setup in the config from HA and choose them during placement. So in that case it could be moved to different devices and even be edited on the desktop) At this moment I’m looking at a solution where I automate every button on desktop and just place the automation triggers on the phones. I’m so done with setting up 30 buttons on 3 phones every time. But they are so great
Unfortunately I once again had to restore an image of my SSD with HA, so all my accesses were reset. I had to reconfigure 6 devices between tablets and smartphones, reinserting all the widgets, the WiFi SSIDs and enabling all the many sensors of the Companion App. If it is true that H.A. it is a user friendly software, it is absolutely necessary to create the saving of the settings of the Companion APP, even through the server, as you want, but do it.
+1 to this, having save/load configuration file as first approach (save to SD, local storage, gdrive or wherever you want) would be a huge improvement. Then you can always add fancy save to HA, clouds, QR code or whatever fancy form people want to implement.
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Nice to have
I wonder that it still not possible to export/import the options?
That is a very basic feature that every Android app should have…
I don’t use google backup and never will. This is open source, we backup on our own…
The app restore functionality has always been broken, and it still is. I just upgraded to a new Android phone, most of the apps have restored their data, Home Assistant starts from scratch.
This is a huge pain, I got a lot of automations and settings that are dependent by the mobile app.
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It’s true, it happened to me a lot of times, I have 3 Tablets and two smartphones. Someone should do something.
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Indeed.
Team, please:
- Fix the automatic backup and restore functionality. This should be the basics!
- If you can, implement a manual backup feature (export/import)
Can everyone here open Google drive on their phone. Click on the hamburger menu option and select Backups. Then select your phone, go to App data. Then find Home Assistant. What size do you show the data at and what date as the backup? Also how did you restore the app? Plug it in, pull from play store etc…
Note it is expected behavior for the user to login using the new device but the data should be restored to some extent.
@dshokouhi yes, Home Assistant shows up in the backed up apps, 3.6 MB.
I am quite expert about Android’s backup system since its introduction in Android 6, and my opinion is that Home Assisant app restore has simply… never worked.
I switched to a new phone. Apps downloaded automatically, including Home Assistant. For the apps that do support backup and restore, they were restored, except Home Assistant.
What’s the point? It doesn’t make any sense.
Almost all data is on the server. What’s the data expected to be restored?
By the way it didn’t restore anything, not even the default dashboard selection.
The feature simply doesn’t work. It also never worked in the past, when I did NOT switch phone but I did a factory reset.
I want to highlight that I don’t have a problem logging in the app again. It’s the way the Mobile App is tied to integrations and all its other dependencies.
I heavily rely on the Mobile App to update my location/zone presence, which is used in automations for all kind of things, including security (Alarm) and notifications)
EIGHT automations are currently tied to my specific Smartphone/Mobile App integration.
- Of these eight, three were not showing up in the device page because I was using “Services” to send a notification to my device, which apparently is not enough to tie the automaton to the device. I found them by manually searching the old device ID in the automations.yaml
- Script, and helpers with templates needed manual checks too.
- The dashboard is a similar story, I have a coulpe of cards. Found with a manual search
Switching to a new phone shouldn’t be that hard. I hope you understand my complain now.