This year has seen a lot of GUI items & HACS frontend components break one by one on “relatively” older hardware. C’mon, The Lenovo Smart Clock 2 is only 2 years old. And now all these GUI items already stop supporting the webview version on that and many other devices we use for our Dashboards.
We’re basically forced to buy brand devices for our Dashboards again and again. This does not suit the “open - for the people” character of Home Assistant.
So here is a plea, please re-introduce support of all these GUI items for older webview versions.
Who is enforcing a specific WebView version? Home assistant app? I thought it uses whatever exists in the system and WebView itself is updated through Google Play Store.
I’m still using a tablet I bought in 2018 with the Home Assistant app. Granted, it’s a small dashboard that only controls the lights and a few other devices in my room, but it still works.
I may test only these plugins on my old iPhone 5S.
Standard Markdown - works (at least with a simple “content: xxxx” & simple jinja templates w/o formatting).
mod-card does not work, similar error (was going to make a separate issue for this). Hmm, even simple card-mod styles stopped working too (I bet they were working a week ago with at least 2023.12.0, now using 2023.12.1)
slider-entity-row - cannot found (not using it actually; should have created an issue for this anyway).
Yes, that’s because on these devices you can update the webview. The Lenovo Smart Clock does not allow for that. I’m simply asking to give us some more slack on not just support bleeding edge newest webview versions.
Or someone should build a fully standalone Hass Android app that:
does not need Google services
has its own webview built in
The “minimal” app, which I use, is not dependent on Google Services, but still requires external webview.
If your fancy cards use fancy features from more recent web view versions their isn’t much to do but ether don’t use the fancy cards or find a way for a newer web view on your device (like root) because that will work with the ha app (including minimal)