Shortcuts to update Sensors

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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I use Siri Shortcuts extensively on my iPhone. And one of the handy things I do to ensure that automations (which trigger bases on my device’s state) happen promptly, is put the Home Assistant app’s “Update Sensors” action in various Siri Shortcuts automations, like whenever I connect/disconnect from a charger for example (which means putting it on charge when I’m in bed runs my Good Night script).

However this action has somewhat broken for me in recent weeks/months (perhaps since I started running iOS 18 beta). It seems to get into a broken state where the command will not work, and returns a Shortcuts error notification, breaking whatever Shortcut was running from that point onwards. Until I force quit the Home Assistant app, then it’s fine (for a few hours).

Anyone else experiencing this issue? And can it be fixed?!

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The same thing has been broken for me since much longer. When I try to run the action manually in the Shortcuts app I get a “The operation took too long to complete” error.

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Same here. I get the too long to complete error, BUT it completes about 2/3s of the time. I’d like to know the fix is well!