I intended to use an older iPad for my dashboard as it is attached on the wall and not really used for anything else… but unfortunately it seems that Home Assistant iOS app is not working well on older OS…
I have an iPad Air running iOS 12.5.7, and the dashboard is extremely unresponsive. You sometimes have to press 5 times on the same button to get a reaction, and some cards (like custom:pool-monitor-card or sonos-card) return the error : “Custom element doesn’t exist”… I tried to logout and nothing happened for more than a minute… I understand reaction time could be slower for older deviced but this is really extreme.
It is working normally on more recent iOS / iPads.
Is there a limitation to use Home Assistant on older devices ? What are the exact required specs ? I created a specific user with limited rights and accesses but this does not improve the speed.
I have a iPad mini that wouldn’t run Hulu. I just wanted something to stream that I could fall asleep to in my bedroom. It turns out the hardware was dated/insufficient. This was 3-4 years ago. I’d expect your issue is similar.
Hello all, I have been heavily into HA for several months, I can’t count how many hours reading this site, but this is my first post.
Similar issue, using an old iPad with iOS 12.5.7 as a wall mounted alarm panel / home controller.
Problem 1 with old devices - pages using the custom layout card go blank after a few seconds with either the HA app or using Chrome. Probably because of older java script support? The solution I used was to not use that card, and so I recreated views specifically for the old iPad - mostly using the picture elements card with custom button cards.
Problem 2 - I installed HA and Chrome and everything worked okay, it was a little slow but everything seemed to work. I didn’t like using my Apple account on what is basically a ‘guest’ iPad and so I decided to erase the device and create a new Apple account and reinstall. But then to my great annoyance, I couldn’t install HA or Chrome again! It says I need iOS 15, but yet it worked just 10 minutes ago!
I found that I can sign out of my ‘new’ Apple account in the Apps Store on the iPad and log in using my original account, then go to ‘purchases’ and then ‘not on this iPad’ and then I could install the older versions of HA and Chrome. Then I logged out and log back in using the ‘new’ account. Everything seems to work on the guest account.
But there is also this (probably) much better solution here that uses VNC to remote connect to an HA session as described further down in this post: