Smartwatch - HASS compatible

Hi

I’m planning to buy a smart watch, and of course would like to use it with HASS.

It’s between Apple Watch and Huawei Smart Watch 2, but I cant really seem to find much information on anyone using this with HASS.

Can you recommend any of those?

I’m using IPhone 6 as my phone, but always used android before. So if it wasn’t for Hass I would go with the Huawei.

Hope you can help decide

/Stefan

You’re going to have a better smartwatch experience if you pair an Apple Watch with your iPhone.

If you buy the Huawei, you’re not going to be able to send/receive text messages from your watch. iMessage requires iOS. You won’t really be able to use a personal assistant on your watch, because the Huawei will have Google Assistant rather than Siri, and Google Assistant isn’t going to be able to do anything with your phone. Searches and things will work fine, but you aren’t going to be able to ask Google Assistant to call anyone, for example. If fitness tracking is at all useful to you, you can install Google Fit on your Huawei, but Google Fit and Apple Health aren’t going to be able to sync.

As for which is better with HA? I don’t know that either are great without third party support. iOS does have a dedicated HA app, but that’s obviously not going to run on the Huawei, but I don’t know how well the app would work with an Apple Watch anyway. With the Huawei, you could use Tasker to interface with HA, but since it’s only going to exist on the watch, I think it would be cumbersome to set up any tasks due to the small display. However, with the Huaweii, you could issue voice commands with the new Google Assistant skill.

So I’d say buy an Apple Watch for compatibility with your iPhone, but if you’re buying a watch solely for HA, at this point in time, neither is a real standout.

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Apple use Apple
Android use WearOS

I heard on the home assistant podcast about the iOS app. That they are planning to have complications in 2.0. Right now you can already use actionable notifications on your watch with HA. I highly recommend the Apple Watch I love it

Hi,
Trying to revive this thread. Are you aware of any third-party app to control Home Assistant from a WearOS watch ? I am planning to buy a smartwatch, and WearOS seems to be the best option for me, given my Google ecosystem.
Thanks !

Looking for an answer to this as well.

Anyone did anything for the Galaxy watch, it has by far the best control setup with the rotary dial but too bad it uses that Tizen OS that no one cares for :frowning:

I use home slide installed on my android phone with the wear companion app. you get all your overview cards . I have created a user for that account that just displays the switches I require. It works great and is very smooth on my ticwatch pro 2020 (1gig ram)

I have ticwatch pro 3 and getting error on watch asking me to finish setup on phone but there is nothing on phone to finish. Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

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i believe the phone app has to be open in the background, so if you have restarted your phone just open it again but dont force close it. I am thinking about adding it to auto start after a phone reboot to stop this problem.

Hi, thx for reply. The app on phone is open and running. I have reinstall it again but still the same. On the phone I go to setting, app will send the command to watch to download, I will install it on watch and hit open, all get is: something happened, open the app on phone to finish setting it up and come back. The app on phone is running and I can’t see what else to setup.

Sorry I can not help anymore, give the developer an email ?

I have the same problem. My watch is a Huawei Watch 2.

I have a Huawei Watch 2 as well. If anyone is still interested in getting some home assistant functionality on their WearOS device, check out the App called Home Slide for Home Assistant by Baptiste Candellier. It’s a great App! I’m now able to toggle my lights or open my garage door with a quick tap on my watch.

Hi guys, I found a solution, how to transfer data to Home Assistant :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Huawey Watch GT2




sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      huawei_watch_gt2_steps:
        friendly_name: huawei_watch_steps
        value_template: "{{ state_attr ('sensor.oneplus_a5010_derniere_notification', 'android.title') }}"
        unit_of_measurement: "steps"
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      huawei_watch_gt2_kcal:
        friendly_name: huawei_watch_kcal
        value_template: "{{ state_attr ('sensor.oneplus_a5010_derniere_notification', 'android.text') }}"
        unit_of_measurement: "kcal"

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To setup home slide you need to add :port ex http://homesome.eu:8080 in external adress

Hope it helps

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Hi there!
Normal notification is there (with the sending app):

android.text: 390 kcal 		 
android.title: 5 263 lépés
package: com.huawei.health

I sometimes got different attributes in the notification:

android.text: 5 365 steps away
android.title: 4 635 lépés 200 kcal 		 
package: com.huawei.health

for that I changed the code:

platform: template
  sensors:
    YOURPHONE_huawei_watch_steps:
      friendly_name: YOURPHONE Huawei watch step
      icon_template: mdi:walk
      unit_of_measurement: "steps"
      value_template: >
        {% set notif_sensor = 'sensor.YOURPHONE_last_notification' %}
        {% if state_attr (notif_sensor, 'package') == 'com.huawei.health' %}
          {{ state_attr (notif_sensor, 'android.title') | regex_findall_index('.*? ',0) | regex_replace('\D','') }}
        {% endif %}

    YOURPHONE_huawei_watch_kcal:
      friendly_name: YOURPHONE Huawei watch kcal
      icon_template: mdi:run-fast
      unit_of_measurement: "kcal"
      value_template: >
        {% set notif_sensor = 'sensor.YOURPHONE_last_notification' %}
        {% if state_attr (notif_sensor, 'package') == 'com.huawei.health' %}
          {% if state_attr (notif_sensor, 'android.text') | regex_match('.*away') %}
            {{ state_attr (notif_sensor, 'android.title') | regex_findall_index('.*? ',2) | regex_replace('\D','') }}
          {% else %}
            {{ state_attr (notif_sensor, 'android.text') | regex_findall_index('.*? ',0) | regex_replace('\D','') }}
          {% endif %}
        {% endif %}
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Hi, Thanks, I will try it!

I thought I update this topic as the recommendation is bit outdate. Here is my Huawei Watch GT 3 Pro capability as of Jan, 2023.

  • Fully functioning Google Map (as well as petal maps)

  • Notification (sound and vibration) from apps like HOME ASSISTANT (via telegram bot) , telegram, whatsapp, skype, email clients works perfectly

  • Pickup and answer Whatsapp audio call works perfectly

  • Health monitoring tools like ECG, pulse, stress level works perfectly

  • unbeatable 7-14 days battery life

  • self tested 30 meters range of Bluetooth Whatsapp voice calls

Clearly this is the best on the market. Due to US & EU regulations the NFC payment is not working as of now. Telegram audio call also not working. Hope our Chinese friends add these soon.

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