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.
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 !
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
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.
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.
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.
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.