YAY for official Android app. You secretive bunch of heroes you!
A little train of thoughts.
What do I expect from this app? Two things:
Really Instant notifications
Location tracking that makes Life360 look like snail with broken legs
Push Notifications
I have tried very many options for an Android phone to get notifications (Chrome with html5, Ariela with Firebase, Tasker with AutoRemote), all of them showing delays at some point.
I for example have very custom doorbell at the moment, heavily relying on push notifications to let me know someoneās at the door requesting my delightful presence. Record in notification delay between pressing the button on the doors and getting notification on my phone is around 3 minutes. Absolutely no good.
So far Tasker is proving to be the most reliable solution, however having to create a profile / task for every specific notification I need is not clean solution at all.
Now, I have really high hopes for official HA app and push notifications.
However, the first issue that popped for me - I cannot turn on Push Notifications, I see this lovely message: "Requires SSL enabled for Frontend"
I have SSL enabled as far as I know, since Iāve been dealing with html5 and other notification options for quite some time.
It may or may not have something to do with even trying to get logged in app: "Unable to find your Home Assistant instance / Make sure your phone is connected to your home internet"
My phone is connected to my home internet, I made sure. Iām logged in app via manual option.
It would be super appreciated if someone far smarter could help figure what to do here.
Location Tracking
I donāt know whatās the progress on location tracking with this app, so I can only hope it will be absolutely brilliant, as all official HA things are!
As probably most of you, much of my automations are heavily presence dependent. Sooner system knows I am home / away, the better.
Team behind the app, thank you! I know it is incredible amount of work already done, and still more to come.
I appreciate your hard work and wish you all the best!
Hi marian, I also have the āUnable to find your Home Assistant instance / Make sure your phone is connected to your home internetā. I am connected to local wifi & browser on mobile (Samsung A70) connects ok to HA. I had to use the manual entry of HA URL āhttp://HA_IP_Address:8123/ā. Now the app is functioning, but also canāt enable Push Notifications
I also have a connected doorbell. I am using telegram to send notifications. It takes between 1s and 5s in 99% of the cases. Whether I am at home or away. For a āhomeā version only (I donāt want to open my mqtt broker on the Internet) MQTT is instantaneous.
have I missed something? where do I find this app? i tried google play but there are so many options from so many people that I donāt know which is the official version.
Iām amazed that a Android App finally exists, but I think that Lovelace, in general, is very heavy and unoptimized.
It lags like hell on my S7 Edge. Not fault of the App per se, but 'cause itās also webbased. Basically a custom Chrome webbrowser with push notifications. Also when I use the Interface editor and want to add a entity to the entities card, it doesnāt add it, etc. Itās kind a fiddly feeling.
But Iām amazed nonetheless.
I hope that when the time comes, someone develops an (mobile) interface that is lighter than Lovelace.
Kinda offtopic if I think about it, but worth mentioningā¦
Lovelace should always be displayed. All the other apps that do their own frontend donāt play nice with custom cards and donāt support everything. You WANT the app to be a webview so what you setup on desktop is also there on mobile. I do not have any lag at all on my phone so it could either be a custom card you have setup or something wrong with your phone causing the lag.
I think they are still working out kinks around all the editors too.
