Tracking and other elements not updating

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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I’m running the companion app on a large android tablet as a wall display. Everything was working fine up until roughly a couple of weeks ago.

That is when I noticed that certain elements were not updating as they should be. So far, I have seen this with the horizon card and the map card.

For the horizon card (GitHub - rejuvenate/lovelace-horizon-card: Sun Card successor: Visualize the position of the Sun over the horizon.), the position of the sun and moon stop updating in real time like they should be. Restarting the app fixes it. It will then work correctly for some period of time (I haven’t figured out exactly how long, or if it is consistent yet), but it will eventually fail again.

For the map card, the circles that represent people do not update their position, however the historical tracks they leave behind do. So if someone leaves the house, their circle does not move, but I can see the track updating in real time as they drive away. Navigating to a different dashboard and back, or doing other actions that cause a refresh of the card seem to fix it temporarily.

There may be other examples, these are the only two I’ve noticed so far. Other sensors seem to be updating as expected.

I’m on the latest version of the app, and these issues started shortly after I updated to it. Is there a way to roll back to a previous release to see if that resolves it? It may just be a coincidence.

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try resetting the frontend cache on the device

From the app: Settings > companion app > troubleshooting > reset frontend cache

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Done. I’ll reply once I see if it made a difference.

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No luck, still behaving the same way.

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I tried reinstalling the app entirely, no luck.
Also tried rolling back to the 2025.6.6 release since that is the one I would have been using when I first set this up and it was working. That didn’t fix it either.

I’m currently testing just running the dash in a browser instead to see if the problem continues, and I’m also going to dig out an old tablet and set up the app on that to see if it’s app or device specific.

Open to other suggestions as well.

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I figured out that the map not updating was due to using config-template-card and has nothing to do with the app. The horizon card I’m still investigating.

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Horizon card definitely has issues in the app, I’ll go find a thread for that one