Home Assistant

Home Assistant and it's developers work tirelessly to provide a way for devices from multiple brands to truly work together, and Home Assistant is by far the most polished yet customizable attempt so far. A lot of users leaving bad reviews don't seem to understand that this isn't (yet) meant to be a turnkey solution. It's a toolbox for the power user to tinker with their smart home and dial it in exactly the way they want it, which may require some work and light coding along the way.

Trying to get away from cloud-based automation, I installed home assistant on my Synology server, as well as the integration local Tuya. Everything is functioning perfectly. So, I downloaded this app, to control using my phone. The app works well, and it's nicely laid out. However, one star off because widgets are a problem. In essence, when I tap a widget, it does what I want it to do, but then it is replaced by an endlessly spinning arrow. Fix: I have to delete the widget.

Recently setup my own Home Assistant using Docker and it is incredibly cool with what the customization allows. I was wondering if the developers of this app could enable the feature to play media from the app, while using other apps. Like if you attempt to play music and switch apps, it will pause and the media isn't recognized by Android in the notification bar. Great app overall.

Great app, really miss "enable all sensors" though. It was such an important feature as it's a chore having to enable 60+ sensors one by one manually. Sort of understand why it was removed, but doesn't make it any less inconvenient to everyone that wants to enable all sensors (or most of them) and doesn't justify totally removing that altogether. Should have left it, perhaps with a clear warning and confirmation that battery life will be affected if you enable all sensors. Outside of that one seriously important (to me and others) thing, solid app as always. Hope to have that back though.

Great app. Love all of the recent improvements. As a note, I've found that disabling battery optimization for the app in my phone's system settings helps the location to report properly in the background. I've also found it helps to install GPS Status & Toolbox to improve the location accuracy while in the background. One feature wishlist item- could the battery level be a separate sensor entity like in the iOS app? I use a template sensor now but wouldn't mind not having the extra config.

App is great and would have been 5 stars, but the recent update that added Android 11 power menu buttons changed how location is reported. It would always regularly turn on the GPS to get a position, but it was always very brief. Just a flash. Now it keeps GPS on for a minute or longer every time I unlock my phone. It seems to be tied to power menu controls. If I remove all Home Assistant controls it reverts the old behavior. I was using only lights and scenes as power menu tiles.

While the app by itself works fine, the latest update is a bit "temperamental". I notice that it looses connection a lot, even when I'm on the same network as my Home Assistant is, and suddenly the Battery and WiFi sensors disappeared. I hope truly that this can be fixed, because I think it is a great addition to Home Assistant. Specifically the fact, that it updates location. Please keep up the good work! And I hope that more sensors will be added. In Hass Logs: [homeassistant.components.mobile_app.webhook] Refusing to update non-registered sensor

Dark theme sucks. The app is great overall, but the app is suck always in dark theme which makes the text on my picture cards white, to contrast with the normally black background, but the picture is white, so you can't see the text at all. Very frustrating. Using my browser to view the same content looks fine. Why can't the phone app look like the web app?

Need improvements to widgets, For example you can provide an option to auto update home screen widgets data every 5mins or else depending on user selection, And can also provide option to hide widgets if no wifi is available, And it will be appreciated if u bring support of solarman inverter also, Thank you. 👍

The main server app is great but this phone app is not. Been requesting support for multiple servers/homes for years and am baffled why it is still missing. Adding a second server will delete the first. You cannot have more than one home through the app.