When I first played with Home Assistant,I was not sure that I was going to use it. I said no to about everything when I installed the android phone app.
Well, I decided I liked it and as I progressed I couldn’t get notifications to work. I spent serious time on this because every youtube I watched blew past making my HA server talk to my phone like it wasn’t a deal. I am wondering how this magic is happening as I don’t have ports open to the internet.
Eventually I learned that it is using Googles “firebase cloud messaging server”. I don’t remember setting that up. Found out it is part of play services.
Finally I tried sending a notification to my tablet instead of my phone. That worked.
Uninstalled the app from my phone and reinstalled. I said yes to a lot of stuff and it is working.
Oh yeah, I kept thinking this companion thing was a separate app. Learned that the companion setting only shows up on mobile devices.
Thought I’d post this if someone has my issues, I don’t need help right now.
for notifications, I liked pushbullet/telegram more. The notifications on the companion app is gone as soon you click it. In pushbullet/telegram, you go to the message and that doesnt disappear. Also there are more features (like a picture sending) to those too.
This is not help, but insights on more options free for you to consider
That ’ notifications are gone as soon ass you click on them ’ is same on iPhone. Would be very useful to other noobs like me to have that line in the docs regarding companion app notifications. Would have saved me a lot of time lol
I am quite the opposite.
I love the fact that you can set them to auto-dismiss after “X” time.
Use case:
10 people working at winery.
Someone arrives at gate.
Somebody will pick it up, buzz then in (actionable notification).
Within a minute, everyone’s phone cleaned of the notification.
Without that, people would have 20/day or more to wade through to see the latest.
