New iOS 10 features

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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That is a weird one. Can you contact me on Gitter for some 1-on-1 debugging?

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Sure can. I’ll send you a message on there now

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Hi Robbie,

Wanted to give some feedback on the latest version of the App (build 42).

  • Notifications are working really well - I am now able to get rid of pushover as they are timely and in fact come in faster now if anything (1 support app down, yay!) Even though I am only using the most basic of notifications, they work flawlessly and I am looking forward to trying some of the more complex and cool stuff you have been working on. I also love the fact that the notifications come with a proper HA logo now - makes it feel more official somehow!

  • Location although much improved still seems to have an issue or two.

First the good - since I last looked at the beta, there has been a huge improvement. Entering geofences now seems to be very reliable. Updates after significant movement work about how I would expect them to.

The issue I am now having seems to revolve around exiting of zones. I still need to do more experimentation as I work at home and don’t leave the house that much ;). It seems to me that most times I don’t get a report of exiting the zone until a significant movement event occurs which can be quite far from the zone itself. A couple of times I have them impression that the App itself notified me that I had left a zone, but that change was not reported back to home assistant. Also, a couple of times, zone exits were missed, but happened when I woke the phone up.

Again, this only seems to be zone exits, zone entries actually seem pretty reliable. I will report back as I try more.

  • The Rest - I have never had a problem with the layout of the web version of the app even on iOS, the big value add for me is the Location and Notification services which are pretty close to being where I would want them. Is there a way to scrape the web layout and use it in the App as the display piece for the various devices? Might save some work and it is more than adequate for my needs - just a thought.

Once again, thanks for all your hard work Robbie - the App gets better every release and is pretty close to being able to displace another one of my apps - Locative :slight_smile:

Let me know if I can help by running any specific experiments or anything I can do to track this down further - willing to help in any way I can.

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Hey, from where I can get the app? I

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My push token is not displayed in the app, any tips to force a refresh and get it (I already tried to delete an re-install the app)

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Robbie it seems there are people with my issue as well. I cannot get the PUSH token to reappear either. I have tried pretty much everything. Glad to see it’s not me going mad or isolated to my setup at least.

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Hello! Has this been setup yet? I managed to add my camera to a push notification message. Whenever I get a notification, I can force touch it and it expands with a live feed (which is awesome, by the way!!). What I’d like to know is if there’s a way to edit the options available, instead of just having ‘Dismiss’? In your example screenshot, you have two options available: Sound Alarm/Silence Alarm.

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You can setup a push category with the identifier of ‘camera’ with whatever actions you want. That will merge with the live feed and let you show actions.

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Can you give a quick example? At the moment, I have an automation where the action is:

     - service: notify.iosapp
       data:
         message: "The door has been opened!"
         data:
           push:
             category: camera
             hide-thumbnail: false
           entity_id: camera.ffmpeg