Screen Lock (>15min) - Notification commands not working

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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Hello everyone,

I was trying to enable/disable the high accuracy mode with the Notification Commands. What have I tried or what instruction did I follow, Setup and Troubleshoot.
I discovered that it is working as long as I am on the home screen (Phone is unlocked), do I lock the screen per button or waiting a period of time the phone does it by itself. I can turn on/off the high accuracy mode within 1 min but after I think of 15 min the phone is locked I can’t either turn on or turn off high accuracy mode. I did check it with other commands like command_screen_on also not working.
When I am sending the high accuracy command to turn on and I unlock the phone it takes 2 sec and high accurcy mode gets turned on.
The phone I use is an Samsung Galaxy S20 FE, I did turn off battery optimization as data saver like mentioned in Troubleshoot.

Log from App (there is much more Data, I tried to pick the important)

06-22 10:54:16.897 19471 19471 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Forcing of high accuracy mode enabled
06-22 10:54:16.913 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Forcing of high accuracy mode disabled, because high accuracy mode had to be enabled anyway.
06-22 10:54:16.919 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: High accuracy mode parameters changed. Enable high accuracy mode.
06-22 10:54:16.919 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Removing background location requests.
06-22 10:54:16.928 19471 28464 D HighAccLocService: Try starting high accuracy location service (Interval: 60s)...
06-22 10:54:16.934 19471 19471 D SensorReceiver: Received intent: io.homeassistant.companion.android.UPDATE_SENSORS
06-22 10:54:16.935 19471  2130 D ServerConnectionInfo: localUrl is: false, usesInternalSsid is: false, usesWifi is: true
06-22 10:54:16.938 19471 28464 D ForegrndServiceLauncher: Start service HighAccuracyLocationService
06-22 10:54:16.980 19471 19471 D ForegrndServiceLauncher: Service HighAccuracyLocationService was created. Start service
06-22 10:54:16.980 19471 19471 D HighAccLocService: High accuracy location service created -> onCreate
06-22 10:54:16.989 19471 19471 D HighAccLocService: High accuracy location service (Interval: 60s) started -> onStartCommand
06-22 10:54:17.010 19471 19471 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Received location update.
06-22 10:54:17.017 19471 19471 D ForegrndServiceLauncher: Check if service HighAccuracyLocationService is running. Service running = true
06-22 10:54:17.019 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Last Location: 
06-22 10:54:17.019 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Coords:(<Data>, <Data>)
06-22 10:54:17.019 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Accuracy: 21.048
06-22 10:54:17.019 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Bearing: 0.0
06-22 10:54:17.020 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Begin evaluating if location update should be skipped
06-22 10:54:17.020 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Received location that is 81 milliseconds old, 1687424056939 compared to 1687424057020 with source fused
06-22 10:54:17.020 19471 28464 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Duplicate location received, not sending to HA

06-22 10:54:45.037 19471 19471 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Forcing of high accuracy mode disabled
06-22 10:54:45.047 19471  5043 D LocBroadcastReceiver: High accuracy mode parameters changed. Disable high accuracy mode.
06-22 10:54:45.054 19471  5043 D HighAccLocService: Try stopping high accuracy location service...
06-22 10:54:45.055 19471 19471 D SensorReceiver: Received intent: io.homeassistant.companion.android.UPDATE_SENSORS
06-22 10:54:45.057 19471  5044 D ServerConnectionInfo: localUrl is: false, usesInternalSsid is: false, usesWifi is: true
06-22 10:54:45.059 19471  5043 D ForegrndServiceLauncher: Stop service HighAccuracyLocationService
06-22 10:54:45.060 19471  5043 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Registering for location updates.
06-22 10:54:45.061 19471 19471 D ForegrndServiceLauncher: Service HighAccuracyLocationService was destroyed. Stop service
06-22 10:54:45.063 19471 19471 D HighAccLocService: High accuracy location service stopped -> onDestroy
06-22 10:54:45.105 19471 19471 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Received location update.
06-22 10:54:45.115 19471 19471 D ForegrndServiceLauncher: Check if service HighAccuracyLocationService is running. Service running = false
06-22 10:54:45.115 19471  5043 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Last Location: 
06-22 10:54:45.115 19471  5043 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Coords:(<Data>, <Data>)
06-22 10:54:45.115 19471  5043 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Accuracy: 31.948
06-22 10:54:45.115 19471  5043 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Bearing: 90.24634
06-22 10:54:45.122 19471  5043 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Begin evaluating if location update should be skipped
06-22 10:54:45.122 19471  5043 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Received location that is 13600 milliseconds old, 1687424071521 compared to 1687424085121 with source fused
06-22 10:54:45.125 19471  5043 D ServerConnectionInfo: localUrl is: false, usesInternalSsid is: false, usesWifi is: true
06-22 10:54:45.157 19471  5043 D LocBroadcastReceiver: Location update sent successfully for 2 as exact

What do I miss? Is this android related because of “deep sleep” or something similar?
Thx for the input :wink:

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can you share an example of the notification you are sending? Its possible you did not follow the critical format which is still suspect to doze if not used.

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Example Code I have tried within the Developer Tools with yaml mode

service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
data:
  message: "command_high_accuracy_mode"
  data:
    command: "turn_on"

service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
data:
  message: "command_high_accuracy_mode"
  data:
    command: "turn_off"

Following your linked docs, the notifications should look like this right?

service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
data:
  message: "command_high_accuracy_mode"  
  data:
    ttl: 0
    priority: high
    command: "turn_on"

service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
data:
  message: "command_high_accuracy_mode"  
  data:
    ttl: 0
    priority: high
    command: "turn_off"
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So I was struggling with Notification Commands for a while. Today discovered you need to enable special permission in the companion app.

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Also, you should keep open HA app on your first try. This way app can direct you to the corresponding Android permission page if it needs any other permission.

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