Mobile companion: get currently open app on meta quest?

Hi everybody,

I have a Meta Quest 3 running Home Assistant 2025.1.1-minimal. The sensor sensor.quest3_last_used_app is enabled and will report every 15 minutes, unless the device is plugged in, then instantly (or every minute).

While testing this, the device was plugged in the entire time.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a companion app error, or perhaps this is even purposefully prevented by Meta? Below is the current history of said sensor

entity_id,state,last_changed
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,unknown,2025-02-27T10:50:26.426Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,com.threethan.launcher,2025-02-27T10:52:00.260Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,io.homeassistant.companion.android.minimal,2025-02-27T10:52:03.795Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,com.oculus.explore,2025-02-27T10:52:41.141Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,com.oculus.vrshell,2025-02-27T10:54:00.118Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,io.homeassistant.companion.android.minimal,2025-02-27T10:54:06.838Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,com.oculus.vrshell,2025-02-27T10:54:52.642Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,com.oculus.vrshell.desktop,2025-02-27T10:57:00.372Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,com.oculus.shellenv,2025-02-27T10:57:26.772Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,io.homeassistant.companion.android.minimal,2025-02-27T10:57:30.855Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,com.threethan.launcher,2025-02-27T10:58:35.686Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,io.homeassistant.companion.android.minimal,2025-02-27T10:58:37.072Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,com.threethan.launcher,2025-02-27T10:58:42.552Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,com.oculus.vrshell.desktop,2025-02-27T10:58:46.047Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,io.homeassistant.companion.android.minimal,2025-02-27T10:58:47.430Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,unavailable,2025-02-27T10:59:50.544Z
sensor.quest3_last_used_app,io.homeassistant.companion.android.minimal,2025-02-27T10:59:51.087Z

This is not displaying anything about Premium Bowling, nor Eleven Table Tennis, which are those specific apps I would like to filter for. They are simply not shown.

Companion app was on some older 2024 version until today; I have updated to the latest available version via SideQuest. But that did not change anything. I did not see any popups about Home Assistant needing additional permissions to query the current app - also, it seems like all system apps do show up just fine. In fact, it seems to me like anything that runs within my quest space (so Home Assistant, launcher, explore, …) are shown, but full-screen apps are not. Is this expected behaviour?

I am currently creating multiple sports sensors, and would like to add VR Bowling and VR Table Tennis, so that I won’t be disturbed people at least know not to disturb me when these sensors are on :smiley:

If this is due to some Meta restriction, is there perhaps a workaround? The Quest is in my home network and I have adb enabled, so perhaps the current app could be determined via some adb shell command or similar?

Thank you in advance for your help :slight_smile: