It is really painful switching the app between alternate instances of Home Assistant (it requires a long trip into settings and multiple selections and presses).
Can we have:
(a) A dashboard button that can be configured to change the app to a specified instance
(b) An even better option, allow multiple instances of the companion app to run simultaneously and have Android widgets that start the companion app with it focused on a specified Home Assistant instance
use teh shortcut feature to directly launch into any server you have configured
https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/integrations/android-shortcuts
widgets also have teh open dashboard ability
https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/integrations/android-widgets
Thank you!
So, this kinda works… I can at least have pinned icons on my phone that point to different instances (i.e. different backend HA servers). But it only ever runs one copy of the app itself, so if I’m working on one server and then click on the shortcut to a different server, all the workflow on the first is thrown away.
Looking in the list of running apps on the phone only shows a single copy of the HA Companion App.
I’ve tried “Dynamic” and “Pinned” shortcuts with the same results.
If you truly want separate instances of WebView which the app cannot do you are free to install the full and minimal version. You can also install the debug builds of each to have 4 separate apps to switch to.
Thanks again - I will try that. Marked as solution, thanks for the help.
That will not work on iOS (iPhone and iPad) or will it?