iOS 1.0.3 is now available as an update in the App Store. If you aren’t seeing it just wait a few hours, it’ll eventually show up.
Thanks for all the great feedback thus far, please keep it coming! Feel free to leave a review on the App Store with your thoughts about the app so far too :).
New Features:
Add a reset function to clear out credentials and device ID, resetting the app to its fresh state
Add background fetch so battery updates even more frequently than before
Add a new notification for background fetch
Initial iBeacon support. Requires at least 0.43.0. Docs are available here.
Add location update via background fetch notification
Camera notification content extension supports play/pause controls
Map is no longer a static image which makes it look much better
Map supports multiple pins. Docs are available here.
Map supports customization of features via the push payload. Docs are linked above.
Fixes:
Notification actions didn’t work if activationMode was set to background and app had been terminated
Significant Location Updates correctly send a notification (if you have that enabled)
Significant Location Updates didn’t work after app termination
Fix weblinks so they open in external browser
General Settings is now correctly hidden if you don’t have Chrome installed and shown if you do
Open in Chrome preference was continually being overwritten at app launch
Send location during background fetch only if location is enabled, otherwise just update device state (i.e. battery)
Web view contents aren’t cut off at the bottom anymore
Misc:
Disable entity picture downloading for now, should speed up startup and most operations
Continue localization work. German is coming up this week, French shortly thereafter!
Changed to a new icon
Add a space to the display name so notifications look better at the expense of a truncated homescreen name
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Is there any documentation?
I downloaded the app.
Opened the app and got a screen saying it found my homeassistant install.
I tapped on my install and it populated the URL below.
I don’t use a password, so I just hit save.
The app exited.
I went back in and went through the same process
This time instead of tapping save, I tapped Done
This took me to a white screen with A refresh and a config gear in the bottom right hand corner, nothing else.
??? It’s a very nice white screen.
Update:
I keyed in my URL and it worked. Very nice. Apparently though selecting the discovered HA entry and having it populate below isn’t working just right.
I am having problem with the background fetching of location in 1.0.3. It worked perfect in the 1.0.2 but since this morning it´s not working as is should. I can exit one zone and enter another zone without any notification, when I open the app it it kicks in again and get me notification that I left one zone and entered another zone. I switched background fetch notification on for 2-3 hours ago and since then I have got 3 notifications that app fetch background location.
Anyone got the same issue? Do you know way this got worse @robbiet480?
I have done some testing between two zone. The most common thing is that it take around 10 minutes until the location changes. In the previous versions it was normal with one or two minutes.
My home zone is not appearing in the app. It looks fine on the Map section of a web page but not in the apps native map display. Is this a bug or some config change I need to make ?
I’m getting a lot more false “not_home” in the version. Three times tonight. Been home the whole time. When I open the app (it’s been running in the background) I change back to “Home”.
There is nothing special to “use it”, it’s always enabled. iOS wakes up the app every so often to let it do its thing. The app sends location and the identify then and iOS shuts down after.
Honestly not super sure yet but I’m wondering if it actually got better because of the background fetch but now it’s updating without the proper parameters sent to HASS which makes it think that you are outside of the zone. Whats your radius set to?
After installing the new app I got no push notifications any more when entering/leaving a zone. I have enabled it in settings again and also tried uninstalling the app and reinstalling it but no change.
Furthermore the app is crashing all the time now. Whenever I try to open it it crashes instantly.
When I look on the web frontend it all looks like before.,
I have done som testing today, I have going back and forwards between two zones today atlas four times. Just to monitor what happened I set upp automation with a notification on leave and enter a both zones. Around half the times I got a notification between 10-15 minutes after leaving och entering a zone. In the other half nothing happened before I opened the app (it run in the background al the time)
I also enabled the built in notification on entering, leaving a zone but none of the 8 times I got that notification. This morning I also enable the notification for background fetch, durin 8 hours I got that notification 2 times.
So something have messed the tracking and localization up in 1.0.3, in previous version it worked without any issues
