Amazing news!! Looking forward to it!
I’m trying out the latest build 53 and all looks great! I think the decision to use the web UI is a decent one. I like that it remembers the app state when I return to it, unlike the bookmarked ‘full screen’ web UI.
The only issue for now is that I can’t enable location tracking because home assistant complains about track_ios not being a valid parameter for a zone.
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It’s been a very long time (probably 1 year or so) since I had the IOS client running. Decided to install it again after all these changes and was pleasantly surprised to see the Web interface running on it. From my point of view, that’s awesome. The main reason I stopped using it was the fact the interface was unusable for me. Not sure if this is permanent but thanks Robbie.
My memory escapes me. Do I still have to add additional components to HA or is HA now aware of the ios app and just adds them. I recall there was the ios: component and ios_notify: (probably wrong) component as well. Have they been updated? Where do I find them.
Thanks again
EDIT: I actually scrolled back and read Robbies lengthy response to the current state of the ios app and it kinda makes some of my questions pointless. I still have forgotten how to load the components in HA. Some documentation I found says HA should load them automatically but yet the UI in the app says they’re not loaded. I also have forgotten where to look. Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi do i need to have a dev account to be able to install this before appstore release?
I think you had to be invited to beta when it was open.
Aha to bad 
Well im looking forward to the app alot.
I think the ide with haveing the webinterface is just perfect, i really like that.
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Me too! I think it’s the last piece of the puzzle
Web interface is just find, but I can’t recall you mentioning if iOS notification/location are working or not. What do I need to do to get them to work with the app?
My APP setup says IOS Component is not loaded, same for the Notify platform. I am running. .41
The latest update on the ios app is really nice i managed to get the location and notify to work put i could not see my iphone device in HA known_devices.yaml. (I had the three ticks).
The location icon and map came up at the bottom of the iphone screen. and worked well.
I changed my device name but the keyboard went over the name i was changing and could not see.
Rebooted my iphone to see if my device would come up in the known_devices.yaml but still not a thing.
So i looked at the services tab in my HA web page and looked at notify domain and could see the old name of my iphone as well as the new one.
Uninstalled the app and reinstalled now then i try to “enable notification” or “enable location tracking” the app hangs.
Sorry to put a downer on this. It was working really well.
Apple rejected the app for the same reasons as last time, they want a video of the app and had some questions about what file sharing is used for (push notification sounds). I’m working out a script right now for the video and will respond to their questions shortly.
As for any bugs or weirdness found in the app since I submitted, I want to just get one version past review and then will do another version with more fixes that will be released the store. Once I get through review once it gets easier after that.
To those that thought that Apple would reject it for the big WebView, so far so good, no complaints on that
Will keep you posted as always.
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Any info on why Homeassistant doesn’t like the track_ios in zones?
You need to provide track_ios in customize, like so:
customize:
zone.home:
track_ios: true
When I add that to the config I get this.
The following components and platforms could not be set up:
zone
customize
Please check your config
Did you previously have a customize section? I have that exact config locally and it works fine.
I did and it was working until a recent update then it stopped working.
My exact config looks like this:
homeassistant:
name: RobbiesMBP
unit_system: imperial
time_zone: America/Los_Angeles
customize:
zone.home:
track_ios: true
and it works without issues…
what version are you running of HASS?
0.42.0.dev0 but that config will work on just about every version ever released I believe. May want to try running check_config to see if you have an error somewhere (hass --script check_config).
I think I figured it out. I had it in the wrong place.
hmmm I get this error…ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.setup] Setup failed for customize: Component not found.
I will have to do some looking