[solved] "device not connected to local push notifications"

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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Thank you for your persistence. At last I have it working! Notify.notify had always worked in the past, so I made the assumption that the fault would be resolved by changing something else, not the messaging service

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Thank you. Whitelisting these domains in AdGuard fixed it for me.

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For future reference, adding only this worked for me and seems to be enough:

@@||firebaseinstallations.googleapis.com^$important

See also: Error: Device Not Connected to Local Push Notifications (after no issues for long time) · Issue #3136 · home-assistant/android · GitHub

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Error solved, in my case.

Connected from iphone using HA local web url.

  1. Menu > Settings > Devices > Mobile App > delete old devices
  2. Menu > User > Log out
  3. Login again > fixed
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[Sorry (not sorry) for the necropost, but I’m having this issue and none of the solutions in this thread have worked…

I followed your instructions, force closed the Companion App (Android), reopened and shared the log - no errors.
I then triggered a notification (manually from inside an automation) which immediately produced the “device not connected to local push notification” error on the HA frontend.
I then shared the log again and this was the error which occurred when I triggered the notif:

10-20 08:24:45.459 29669 29719 E IntegrationRepositoryImpl: Unable to get notification rate limits
10-20 08:24:45.459 29669 29719 E IntegrationRepositoryImpl: java.net.UnknownHostException: Unable to resolve host “mobile-apps.home-assistant.io”: No address associated with hostname
10-20 08:24:45.459 29669 29719 E IntegrationRepositoryImpl: at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupHostByName(Inet6AddressImpl.java:156)
10-20 08:24:45.459 29669 29719 E IntegrationRepositoryImpl: at java.net.Inet6AddressImpl.lookupAllHostAddr(Inet6AddressImpl.java:103)
10-20 08:24:45.459 29669 29719 E IntegrationRepositoryImpl: at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:1152)
…
10-20 08:24:45.459 29669 29719 D SettingsPresenterImpl$getNotificationRateLimits: Unable to get rate limits

I am able to resolve that hostname from PC and phone.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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Is this valid for the Play Store version? AFAIK the minimal HA companion app should not use those connections, right?

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I’m sorry, I can’t wrap my head around this. You seem to be saying that the local push notifications depend on persistent connection and then advise us to turn them off? Please help me understand.
Also, can you explain what to set it to if using the minimal F-Droid version of the companion app please?

If you need the connection then please check the logs I mentioned earlier.

Settings > Companion App > Show and share logs

Also, this setting / menu doesn’t seem to exist any longer in the companion app, can you please check or explain? I can’t find any menu item related to logs in the companion app settings except related to changelogs.

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“Show and share logs” is under “Troubleshooting” now.

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Just made an account to say this worked for me.

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Here’s what worked for me:

  1. Open HA app on phone
  2. Main Menu
  3. Settings
  4. Companion app
  5. Under first section, ("Servers & devices), tap your HA server name
  6. Under last section, (“Other settings”), tape “Persistent connection”
  7. Set to “Always”

Notifications began working immediately for me.

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Exact same issue for me.
I am using NextDNS and the blocklist “Goodby Ads” had “firebaseinstallations.googleapis.com” blocked. After whitlisting “firebaseinstallations.googleapis.com” notifications are working again.

thx a lot

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still an issue here, android with no gplay on a VLAN with no internet access, fresh minimal app installed from github, persistent connections break when the server reboots. only fix is to force stop the app and restart it or reboot the phone.

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Same here. In my case:

  • I’m on GrapheneOS with no GMS.
  • I tested the original app and minimal one.
  • It happens when I’m connected to home wifi / connected via Tailscale.
  • I have Persistent Connection activated.

Only works rebooting the phone, relaunching the app or sometimes it randomly works…

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Same here. I’ve had this issue for a couple of years. Its gotten way worse since I moved to Graphene OS. I’m using the fdroid version the only fix is to toggle the persistent notifications to never than to always or reboot the phone. It breaks randomly but always after my phone is rebooted. Anybody else fix this? I’ve had to change my notifications because of this. I can provide logs if need be. I’m guessing this is strictly an android issue.