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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