WearOS Companion issues

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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I am having a couple of issues with the WearOS app. I have a TicWatch Pro 3 and a Samsung S20FE.

  • As long as the watch is connected to the phone via Bluetooth it doesn’t seem to have a network connection, therefore the WearOS app is useless unless I turn off Bluetooth (which ends up using more battery due to using WiFi, and is useless outside of my home).
  • I used to long-press the power button to access Google Assistant. As of a couple of days ago, long-pressing it launches Assist which, due to the above, is completely useless. How do I disable Assist and get my Google Assistant back?

Regarding the first issue, I would have expected the WearOS app to connect to the phone app if there was a phone connection available, instead of always trying to connect directly to Home Assistant.

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this only impacts a handful of users, if you can enable NAT loopback on your router it should fix it.

you probably changed the default assistant, go into your watch settings to change it back.

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I have exactly same problem with default assistant. I didn’t change anything in watch settings.

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The first time you trigger assistant a dialog is shown on which assistant to use with an option to always use the selected one. Testing on my pixel watch I’m able to see the prompt on which assistant to use when I trigger it using the hardware button.

Edit: on a pixel watch. Going to settings > apps & notifications > default apps > digital assistant. Allows me to change the app.

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There’s no such option in TicWatch Pro 3 Ultra.

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Did any of you get a choice between Google Assistant and Home Assistant the first time after updating when holding the button?

Edit: never mind, confirmed in the Wear OS 2 emulator that it does not ask you which app you want to use. Will add a toggle for it in the HA app.

Edit 2: submitted a change so you can turn off Assist as an assistant app which should prevent the Google Assistant from becoming unavailable: Add toggle for Assist as assistant app on Wear by jpelgrom · Pull Request #3663 · home-assistant/android · GitHub.

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Same watch, same complaint. HA is forcing assist on my watch, just kicking google assistant out, without giving an option to switch assist off.

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The option to disable Assist is only in the beta version of the app for now, not yet in a stable version.

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Will disabling it entirely disable it?

On my Fossil Carlyle, I can assign it to a different button - it would be ideal if my main button stayed with Google Assistant but I can still utilize HA Assist on another button.

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it will disable it from being added as a digital assistant, you can still use the HA: Assist launcher shortcut to get to assist and assign that app to a button

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