It’s lastly right here, some of the frequent characteristic requests for the Residence Assistant
Android Companion app: now you can configure a number of Residence Assistant servers. The
app can ship sensor updates to all servers and simply combine and match widgets, tiles,
and controls for various servers 🎉
Plus, a preview of the Residence Assistant app is now out there through the Amazon Appstore
on Home windows 11, which lets you rapidly join your laptop to Residence Assistant.
There are additionally different adjustments that add some polish to the app and enhance help
for options within the newest Residence Assistant releases, so let’s dig into the replace!
Configure multiple Home Assistant servers
Sometimes, one Home Assistant instance is not enough. You like Home Assistant so
much that you decide to help someone else get started, there’s a second home in
your life, or you regularly visit someplace else where they’re using Home Assistant.
Before this update, if you wanted to access more than one server it was a bit of a
hassle. Switching apps, creating bookmarks, and using different profiles. Let alone
connecting your Android device to multiple servers for features like sensors
and notifications.
This issue now belongs to the past, as there’s a new option in Settings >
Companion app to configure a second server, and one other one after that, and one other…
They may all present up within the app, and you need to use all options you’ve come to
count on, like plenty of sensors on your gadget and help for push notifications.
Each will get particular person settings, so should you don’t wish to share your step rely
and allow location monitoring in every single place, that’s OK.
That’s not all – you too can use all servers outdoors the app, mixing and
matching servers when utilizing shortcuts, notifications, widgets, tiles and controls.
Toggling lights from three totally different houses side-by-side? No downside!
Word: the Put on OS app doesn’t but help a number of servers.
Now out there on Home windows 11 (preview)
The Residence Assistant Android Companion app is now out there via the Amazon Appstore
on supported Windows 11 devices. Whereas there are already nice choices to combine your
laptop from the group on the market, the Companion app makes it straightforward to start out
and advantages from all of the work on the Android app, steadily including new options.
Home windows doesn’t all the time present appropriate info to the app and will shut down
background work, together with sensors, after a number of minutes, which is why we’re
releasing Home windows 11 help for the app as a preview. Android help in Home windows
11 continues to get higher and we intend to make changes to enhance the
expertise sooner or later.
Refining Wear OS
The Home Assistant app has been available for over a year now on Wear OS watches
and continues to improve. Earlier this year, initial support for Assist was added,
and in this update @dshokouhi made it simpler to entry utilizing a watchface
complication. Now Help is barely a faucet away!
Obtained a number of entities and wish to cover the muddle in your watch? You can already
add favorites which might be displayed on the high of the app, however it could nonetheless load
all entities under them. Now, there’s an choice to solely present favorites to cut back
what will get loaded and forestall unintended adjustments. Attempt it out and tell us should you
choose this extra targeted expertise!
@SkechyWolf and @dshokouhi additionally labored on the appear and feel of the app to make it
slot in higher with different fashionable Put on apps.
Other noteworthy changes
There’s more in this update, here are some highlights:
- Any sensor with a location attached will now show up for navigation when using Android
Auto. Nice one, @dshokouhi! - @jpelgrom added preliminary help for the brand new Thread integration in 2023.3. Thanks!
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@Adi146 and @dshokouhi labored to make the Beacon Monitor extra dependable when within the
background and when toggling it on and off, good to see enhancements! - Put a number of work in a customized dashboard, solely to have it break in your cellphone due to
textual content that’s ever so barely too small or undesirable auto-rotation? No extra, as @dmiales
tweaked settings to stop this from taking place! - Obtained a notification that ought to solely present up in your watch? Within the earlier replace, help
was added for notifications to the Put on OS app, and on this replace work continues by
@dshokouhi, with the app now supporting TTS notifications.
Much more individuals labored on fixing bugs on this replace, like @Suxsem and @JBassett. Thanks
to all of those that contributed. You probably have a good suggestion to enhance the app or discovered a bug to
repair, be at liberty to join us on the forums or contribute on GitHub.
All changes
You can find a complete list of all changes made for this update here:
Full changelog for Home Assistant Android 2023.3.0.
