Companion app for iOS 2024.5: Let me Assist you 🍎

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That’s weird, it has work reliably for me, can you open a GitHub issue with detailed information?

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Are there instructions available for adding the Lock Screen widget. I installed the update but am not seeing the widget on the list of possible widgets to add.

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If you search for home assistant it should be there, otherwise please try rebooting your phone.

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Thank you Bruno! A reboot did the trick. Really appreciate all your work on this iOS app!

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Wow this does not work well for me at all.

Tap widget and ask “What’s the lounge room temperature?”

Wait…
Wait…
Wait…

Ask again

Wait…
Wait…
Wait…

Ask again

Wait…
Wait…
Wait…

Tap listening icon.

Tap microphone icon.

Ask again.

Hears: “And now? Yeah.”
“Sorry I couldn’t understand that”

Tap microphone button. Ask again.

Finally get correct answer.

Check HA logs:

Logger: homeassistant.components.websocket_api.http.connection
Source: components/websocket_api/connection.py:167
integration: Home Assistant WebSocket API (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 09:23:48 (217 occurrences)
Last logged: 10:34:40

[140270936648640] Received binary message for non-existing handler 1
[140270942187712] Received binary message for non-existing handler 1
[140270942187712] Received binary message for non-existing handler 2
[140272882262464] Received binary message for non-existing handler 1
[140272882262464] Received binary message for non-existing handler 2

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I created a feature request for some assistant functionality that i would like to see. Lets make it happen!.. Initiate Voip call from home assistant - #4 by nickrout

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Thanks for reporting, can you open a detailed github issue with information like… whats your device, whats your assist pipeline configuration, if you were using external mic (airpods for example) or not?

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Unfortunately I have removed all the wyoming/piper stuff now.

I don’t really have a use for a fancy voice remote control. I prefer to have everything automated.

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This is awesome and I think exactly what I am hoping for.

before I was able to your “Hé Siri Assist” but still the Speach to text part was handled by Siri. For some reason this broke but in the end I want it to run locally.

I think the the article could use some links to guidelines about how to setup whisper(maybe piper) and assist.

All in the video is cool but if you are new to voice control you wouldn’t know where to start

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There you go!

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Thank you for all updates and improvements :+1:

I have added the widget to my lock screen. When i click the widget it does not open assist it just opens HA.

Do i need to configure something?

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Have you used Assist before? If you go to home assistant settings and tap “voice assistants”, do you see one configured? Besides that you can press and hold the widget then tap “edit” widget to choose which pipeline you want to use

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Thanks for you answer.

For it would be really nice if I could receive notifications on my Carplay device.
Get a notification when somebody is at the door, the Alarm goes off, or many other notification you want to be notified when on the road.

Should I issue a feature request for this ?

Thanks,
Rien

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Love that there’s a CarPlay app, but one thing that I think is missing is the ability to pin an entity or something for quick access. Ideally it would be great if the actions buttons could show a status, that would solve the problem.

My use case is to have a guest mode switch that is easily accessible each time I get in my car in case I forget to turn it on before leaving. Currently I have an action for it that runs an automation that toggles it, but I can’t see what state it’s in currently. I would have to go to the areas or the control tab, find the right area, or go into the switches and then scroll until I find the right one.

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How to use the custom command to launch assist without touching the phone like shown here?

Can not find anything in the documentation.

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Same question from me. Cannot find anything!

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It’s a workaround using accessibility feature “voice control”

Settings >> search for voice control >> commands >> custom

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Yes please

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Hi Bruno,

Thanks :slight_smile:

For me on Apple watch is working fine at home with local network but outside it’s working good too on my iphone but not in apple watch I just see a circle with a cross inside when I try to launch an action.

I’ll try tomorrow on carplay.

regards

Filou

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I merged a fix for that Apple Watch behavior last week it’s on our current beta 2024.5.1, coming to the store soon

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