iPad 3 and iOS 9.3.5

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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Hello everyone, is there still a working solution for home assistant use with IOS 9.3.5 and iPad 3?

All solutions where I could find are several years ago and unfortunately no longer work for me.

Unfortunately, there is no connection via Safari.

Only the HA logo comes and nothing else. I have already tried auth.provider.

The iPad has a jailbreak, if that helps.

If there is no possibility, someone has ideas for what you can still use an iPad 3 for, except as a picture frame or cutting board.

Thanks so much

Greetings Andy

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There are some options in this topic: Lightweight IOS version (for IOS 9.3.5

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I have already read this post.

So far I haven’t gotten anything to work.

With the trusted_networks variant, there is still no other page for me.

And with Family Sharing, I don’t get an old version of the app.

Then I have to keep trying.

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There are other options mentioned.

Tileboard?

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There are lots of topics with workarounds, but there is one I haven’t seen yet: make your iPad a HomeKit Hub (only works for older iOS versions) and export entities directly to the Apple Home app. It doesn’t have the informational and customizable pizzazz of HA dashboards, but it provides basic access to entity control and sensor readings via a native app, which is much faster than trying to render a JavaScript website on a 13-year-old device.

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@Tom_l
With the other methods, I still have to see if something works.

So I hoped someone could say directly that there is still a working solution.

@Peterxian
As far as I know, 9.3.5 doesn’t have HomeKit support yet, or am I wrong?

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HomeKit protocol support has been around since iOS 8, so you can enable the home hub feature, but checking again the Home App wasn’t introduced until iOS 10 so unless it was backported or in the App Store, you may be out of luck. An iPad 4 would’ve worked! There have been a few legacy apps that duplicated the Home app’s functionality but even those may not install on your antique.

Some other clever hacks for using vintage browsers with modern websites include proxy-like packages such as browservice and wrp, but I haven’t tried either with home assistant. If you try one, let us know!

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Thanks everyone. I’ve tried a few different things, but haven’t found a solution. I tried installing BrowserService on a Raspberry Pi, but it didn’t work either. Perhaps it’s due to a lack of experience with it. Thanks everyone, though. Perhaps someone else will come forward with a working solution.