I’ve stumbled upon an issue that I don’t know how to resolve.
Today, by mistake, I removed the HASS icon from my phone’s home screen. The thing is, I can’t figure out how to get it back!
When I look in the Chrome menu, the option “Add to Home screen” just isn’t there! Instead, there’s something called “Open Assistant”, which just launches the site as an “app”.
The thing is, as far as I can tell, any other site I go to, the “Add to Home screen” option is available in the menu. See for example when I go to this site:
I’ve tried clearing all history and cache, rebooted the phone. Nothing I’ve tried works. I just can’t get the option to show up, and it’s driving me insane!
Has anyone here stumbled upon this before? How did you resolve it?
Apparently, what I did was just to remove the icon from the home screen. But, the app “Assistant” was still installed on the phone, hence “Open Assistant” in the menu in Chrome, which just opened the app “Assistant”.
Oh well, hopefully someone can learn from my mistake.
Another user with egg on his face. Same problem. The fact that the app is called “Assistant” and not “Home Assistant” in the app drawer totally threw me off.
Glad I found this. It literally just happened to me. I don’t think I deleted the home screen icon - I suspect it disappeared when I updated and refreshed the front end. Perhaps the home screen icon is tied to version? I’ve had that happen with actual apps - they disappear from the home screen when they’re updated, even though the app is still installed.
I have two homeassistant instances , but only one can be put on homescreen without “add to homescreen”, it’s very unfriendlly for multiple devices users.
I agree with maxmib, super annoying that the assistant app takes over the add to home screen option. Adding a shortcut to grafana is impossible as i run it through the same proxy server in a subdirectory.
