I have two (identical) android phones, with HA installed on them. Both have battery saver disabled, and both have the same sensors enabled.
Both phones report their GPS location and therefore, home assistant knows what zone they are in. They also report the SSID of the wifi network they are on, so that I can have an alternative way of telling if either phone is ‘home’.
This is what happens when both phones are taken from the house at the same time:-
Phones connected to the mobile network does not act the same, depends also upon which cell-tower they find ( Absolutely not necessarily the same ) And both have same Provider ?, if not ditch the “cheap prescription”
Some times i even get SMS’s hours after it’s send, sometimes not, yes getting an sms from some also involve someone else mobile-gateway-provide,
Roaming, ok i guess you know what this is, putting it rough "1st-route"tele1(unknown) drops your requests in the buttom of their backlog, because you are not their paying customer.
Well what im saying might not be entirely truth, but there are so many factors involved, not only the settings in the 2 phones, also which apps and background processes they currently are running etc.
As soon as you leave your house, your Your Phones, and your Home-Router knows they “dropped out”(Loose the connection to the SSID) it has nothing to do with your Phones, or Phone subscriptions/Providers
As soon as your Devices(with auto-preferred/connect wifi settings) are with-in reach, of your Home-Router again they will Connect to the chosen SSID
Mobile-networks is as mentioned depended upon “Weather N Wind” and “random subtle events”
However my first answer was based upon what you have “provided” in your initial post ( Just a picture)
You have to be more precise, i.e
Which sensors ? from which Integrations ?
Is it Same Provider, Same type of Subscription
Same User ( Or You and Wife’s phone ), Same running Apps/Processes in background etc ?
But as mentioned above ,start with reading Documentation, and follow basic Troubleshooting first
So both phones are identical models, but we are on different mobile phone service providers. All other sensors are set identically between the phones. I’m using the built in device tracker, and also the phones wifi SSID name sensor.
Both phones are on the same android version and battery saving settings.
Maybe its the phone service provider…
easy test, switch sim-cards (and phones, log in with your user account in the others phone app) , so you also exclude this. after you also clear the App-Cache on both.
But Yes there is diffidently a big different in many cases, in regards to Providers “Local” Network coverage, and i.e reliability insurances , in both coverage And speed etc etc
PS: One thing is for sure, don’t rely on there “sales” web-info, they all have the best coverage, performance and reliably
Android app OpenSignal has options to identify what cell tower you are connected to, signal strength, direction, etc.
Others like NetworkCellInfo also have useful stats.
Putting two phones side by side with two providers displayed in these apps can quickly sort out facts vs marketing claims.
An old analog AM radio giving you break in noise of the cell phone negotiating handoff between 3G towers on a country drive was the life experience that taught me about all the furious digital activity that happens behind the scenes so you can keep the gossip conversation with Aunt Matilda going for hours to prevent total boredom between toilet stops.
i can only hope my 4G signal becomes better when they turn of all 3G … 3 companies here started this month, Terminated 3G, and the rest will follow, there is no way i ever get 5G here
