Turn on iPad screen with a sensor for Dashboard

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Can you pls let me know which version of iOS you’re on?

This reddit post describes something similar (notifications stop working, but for a completely different app). I’m on iOS17

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I’m on 17.7, the latest

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Thanks for your feedback. I’m glad to report I did find the cause for iOS not waking with Home Assistant notifications.

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Sharing the cause and solution:

  • Turns out the HA app is rate-limited to 500 notifications per day. This tablet is installed in a high traffic area, so it was hitting over 500 every once in a while.
  • To solve this, I threw a debounce timer into my automation. This extra condition will ensure the wake signal isn’t called more frequently than every 3 minutes (instead of each second or however frequently your motion sensor is triggering). If implementing something similar, replace “automation.kitchen_tablet_display” with whatever your motion sensor wake automation is called.
condition:
  - alias: Debounce timer (prevent notifications within 180s)
    condition: template
    value_template: >-
      {{ (as_timestamp(now()) -
      as_timestamp(state_attr('automation.kitchen_tablet_display', 'last_triggered') |
      default(0)) | int > 180)}}
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Could you provide me with a step-by-step guide on how to activate my iPad with a motion sensor? I’m using the current iPadOS 17.x. As mentioned above, I have taken over the automation. What else do I need to set up on my iPad?

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I have this working with sending a message to my iPad air 2 IOS 15.8.3.
When my kitchen sensor is triggered I see the message in the screen but I still need to press the home button on the iPad to open the screen fully.

Any idea how to avoid pressing the home button to get the screen fully open?

Thanks.

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I’ve found an old iPad mini running iOS 15.8.3 and I am trying and trying. I cannot invite the other account to my Home… and now I know why: my Home is upgraded to the ‘new’ HomeKit, which isn’t available on iOS 15.

Is there any way of getting this working? I can’t add my Home Assistant HomeKit Bridge to the old Home on iOS 15… :frowning:

So, a little help needed :wink:

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Hi @rice12,

how did you get that working? I’m failing at the point, that the motion sensor will wake up the ipad (iOS 18.5). I found several how-tos describing one essential part: Long press the sensor in the “Home”-App of your iPad → go to status and notifications → enable notification. I don’t have that menu after long/short press of the sensor. I have “Status” only, giving me option to show the sensor on the overview dashboar of Apple Home, but not to set notifications. Any idea?

Thanks a lot,

DJ

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Forget it, just found out you don’t need that workaround with notifications from homekit-enabled motion sensor. Just create an automation in HA to send a notification to the companion app on the iPad when motion sensor detects motion. The message won’t appear, when you’re in guided access mode.

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sorry to miss your question, didn’t get this notification. Glad you got it sorted!

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Hello,
I know how old this post is, but I still have a question about the best configuration for the time between notifications from Home Assistant to the iPad and the iPad’s shutdown time (currently 5 min). I regularly find myself in situations where the iPad is turned off and the alarm is still within the set 180 seconds.
Frank

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So I have just done this on my old iPad Mini (with the help of Gemini). There is a solution for iOS 12, it is to run HA in the browser, not the app. It works just fine. There was then an issue that kiosk mode did not work , this was solved by adding /?kiosk in the url after the dashboard name. Now it looks really good, and only sips battery power after all these years