Wear OS notifications

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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Hi!

I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy Watch5 and I’m playing around with using it with HA.From the Wear OS documentation:

Wear OS devices will relay notifications from any app on the connected device by default, meaning the notification needs to be sent to the connected device first before it reaches the wearable

However, I have noticed that only notifications that are being sent directly to my watch get pushed to the watch, and notifications sent to my connected phone are only shown on my phone. Has anyone else encountered this, is this an issue or could I be missing something?

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In App Notifications in the Galaxy Wearable app, have you allowed notifications from Home Assistant ?

(I didn’t realise you could send notification direct to the watch - I must check that out)

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Yep, notifications sent directly to the watch do appear. You can select the watch as an entity for your notify service :slight_smile:

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Yes, you are right, I still prefer the phone notification being mirrored, you can do stuff like this :

service: notify.mobile_app_sm_g991b
data:
  title: Coffee Machine
  data:
    group: Coffee Machine
    color: "#8ff798"
    icon_url: https://img.icons8.com/officel/2x/coffee-maker.png
    importance: high
    timeout: 600
    vibrationPattern: 100, 1000, 100, 1000, 100
    notification_icon: mdi:coffee-maker
  message: Coffee Ready
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Right. And I agree, I much prefer mirroring the phone otherwise you’d have to manually write logic when to notify your watch and when to notify your phone. But, as stated, mirroring doesn’t work for me :frowning_face:

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Are you allowing notifications from HA app ?

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Yes, because the direct notifications do appear

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The app notification settings in the Galaxy app dicates which phone app (ie Home Assistant companion app) notifications are also sent to the watch. I don’t think the fact that you can send notifications from your HA server means its enabled.

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Fair enough. Yes I have it enabled, I think. This is my samsung watch manager app:

Screenshot_20230530_141715_Galaxy Watch5 Manager
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10

keep in mind certain notifications will not be relayed from phone to watch. Persistent notification and silent notifications will not show up if sent to the phone.

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Somehow, the issue resolved itself- after a few days it seemingly “spontaneously” started working. If you need any more details let me know!

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Crazy, I did both august updates with home assistant and after the first one, I started getting notifications to my watch. After the second one, it stopped.

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Following up on this thread - I have a Galaxy Watch 6 and installed the Home Assistant companion app for Wear which is so cool and appreciated.

Has anyone with a Samsung watch been able to configure the Galaxy Wearable app (or a setting in HA) to allow notifications sent directly to the watch but NOT mirror them from the phone?

HA appears in the Galaxy Wearable app notifications list as “installed on watch and phone as companion apps” with a single toggle. I would like to be able to send specific notifications to the watch through the HA notify service but not mirror the higher volume of HA notifications that my phone receives. In Samsung’s app it doesn’t seem to be possible to allow the Wear app to show any notifications without also enabling phone mirroring.

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you dont need to configure it, you need to make sure to send the notification to correct service call. Each device you log into has its own notify service call.

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That’s correct. But the single setting in Galaxy Wearable lumps together notifications sent directly to the Wear companion app and notifications mirrored from the phone. If the setting is enabled, the watch shows notifications from both notify.mobile_app_phone and notify.mobile_app_watch. If it’s disabled, the watch shows no HA notifications, not even from notify.mobile_app_watch.

This may work differently for non-Samsung watches that sync through the “Wear OS by Google Smartwatch” app instead of a manufacturer-specific app. It seems like poor design on Samsung’s part.

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my pixel watch app lets me differentiate between notifications from apps on my phone compared to apps installed on the watch directly. They are 2 different apps actually.

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I am trying to get images to show up on my galaxy watch by going through the phone. On my pixel watch the image shows up but for some reason the galaxy watch gets the notification but the image isnt there. Anyone else have this issue?

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Yes, I have the same problem on the Galaxy Watch5 Pro. I noticed that images will show up in notifications that get sent to my phone since phone notifications mirror to the watch.

Since sending the same notification to both phone and watch results in duplicate notifications on the watch, I’ve stopped sending notifications to the watch and now just send them to my phone where they get mirrored to the watch and expose the phone notification’s rich content and actions the watch notification never got anyway.

This workaround is good enough except that any notification with a video clip or gif doesn’t render on the watch regardless of whether the notification was sent to the phone or directly to the watch.