Live Activity not working

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
1

Hello,

I wanted to test out today Live Activity (new Feature of the Companion App) on my iPhone 14 Pro on iOS 27 Public Beta.

If I just send a notify, it is working proberly:

action: notify.mobile_app_<device_id>
data:
  title: Washing Machine
  message: Cycle started

If I try to send it as Live Activity, nothing happens, even if I use a new (unused) Tag:

action: notify.mobile_app_<device_id>
data:
  title: Washing Machine
  message: Cycle started
  data:
    tag: washer_cycle
    live_update: true

Any Ideas?

Best Regards,
Johannes

2

I’m having this exact issue on the final release of 27. I wasn’t using live activities before I started playing with them tonight, so I don’t know if it’s truly a problem with iOS 27, but it seems like it might be since you mentioned you were on the beta too.

3

Works fine for me on iOS27 (final):

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Are you sure the HA app is up-to-date?

4

Hi,

For me the issue is gone. I think I was too unpatient until HA on iOS got informed about the live activity.

Br,
Johannes

5

I resolved this issue by toggling Live Activities permission off and then back on in iOS Settings. It seems this forced the app to request and register a fresh token, as the previous push-to-start token had silently gone stale on Apple’s side. I didn’t need to change my automations, scripts, or configuration.yaml.

6

Thanks for this, I had the same issue. Toggled live activities under iPhone settings/Apps/Home Assistant/Live Activities/Allow Live Activities and this resolved the issue for me as well :grinning_face: