Multi-server support in iOS 2021.12

@zacwest You are the man! I’ve been waiting for this feature and it finally arrived, so happy to see this feature as I have multiple instances of HA (home, office, dev, etc). THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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Enabling/disabling location per server is coming in a future release; it requires some core-side changes that mean it won’t be available until 2022.2 is out. You will be able to choose what is sent: exact coordinates, current zone name (home, work, not_home etc.), or no location data.

Enabling/disabling sensors per server is likely coming, too; I need to wrap my head around what I want to limit; e.g., whether it is all sensors or certain sensors.

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Maybe I missed something or you guys placed a bet on how long it will take until a guy asks the following question anyway:

(When) Will this great multi server support feature arrive in the Android app?

Now you can resolve your bets :smile:

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Perhaps at the the time the ios app will bring the faceid/Touchid, Android already has a long time. :sweat_smile:

iPhone 5S (iOS 12.5.5) - the App does not start.

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Love this, thanks a ton!

I’ll be the second asking about Android. Been trying to figure this out as it’s been a feature I’ve been wanting for years after setting up HA in two locations.

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Tremendous news! What about multiserver support for Android smartphones?

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Is it just me, or this three-finger swipe is not the most effective way of switching between servers? Is adding a button somewhere - in sidebar, for instance - an option, to avoid having to go through settings, servers and activate?

I end up changing input_selects, switches or input_booleans by chance while I’m trying to swipe (and it doesn’t always work).

Tried both in an iPhone and Mac, doesn’t work properly in either.

@zacwest Any thoughts on this?

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Not dust you, I find it awkward to use three-finger on the screen.

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Is enabling/disabling notifications also a setting to be considered per server?

Awesome work. It’s easy to controle my own system and my dads system.

Only thing I now have, if I use “shortcuts” in iOS, I have to tell to which server.
Do use for example in “shortcuts”, loading my phone: toggle lights off. And normally it’s works flawless, but now my phone is asking, which server to select, before the lights are getting toggled. That’s not really “automated”.

How can I fix that?

Thanks in advanced.

Not sure if this can be considered as a breaking change in ‘Shortcuts’, but it sure looks like.

I had the same “issue” as you and I had to edit all my Shortcut HA actions to indicate in which system it should run (to avoid the popup to appear).

After that, shortcuts resumed working as before.

Not sure if this can be considered as a breaking change in ‘Shortcuts’, but it sure looks like.

I had the same “issue” as you and I had to edit all my Shortcuts’ HA actions to indicate in which system it should run (to avoid the popup to appear).

After that, shortcuts resumed working as before.

Odd, I didn’t have to update anything. However I only have 1 server. Do you have multiple servers? If yes, then I would expect that you’d have to do that regardless.

How did you select which server to use in shortcuts?

You will need to update existing shortcuts when adding additional servers. If you do not add additional, the existing ones will not prompt for server choice.

You can edit the server for a Shortcut by exposing the additional options in the Shortcut.:

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Notifications is a little more tricky as it’s a received action. I’m not sure. I can’t stop the server from sending the notifications, and Apple has repeatedly denied us permission to prevent certain notifications from showing upon delivery. I can likely remove the notify service though.

Can you speak more about what situation you want this to happen in?