Home Assistant

Paul Cook

1 year ago

Quite simply the best open source project I've ever come across. It is well worth investing the extra effort to use this as it is a work of technical art. Everything is rock solid, including the apps and it can do a lot more than just automate your home. Your imagination is the limit.

Joe AmRhein

1 year ago

Version 2023.10.2 is incredibly slow to load, requiring tens of seconds to load a complete dashboard, entity historical data, or lists of items (automations, entities, integrations). Numerous times I've seen the "trouble loading" dialog pop up when opening the app. Making matters worse is that this data doesn't seem to be cached very long, so the long loading is required each time I pick up my phone to check something or toggle an entity. Didn't have this problem with the previous app version

David

1 year ago

I have a metric ton of problems, most importantly that I'm unable to connect my home like 15% of the time. (Only the UI is broken, automations work just fine.) There's also the fact that the UX is extremely lacking and basically unusably inconvenient on PC, and barely functional on mobile. It's missing a lot of gestures that are base functionality for any android app, for example. And it also has major issues. It refuses to open elements indented multiple levels in Vertical/Horizontal stacks...

David Timovski

11 months ago

I love the mission. The software has rough edges but the path they're taking is clear. I recommend Home Assistant to anyone interested in smart home.

Thomas Barrett

1 year ago

Connection keeps dropping out over wifi / mobile app. Never had an issue with the PC accessing home assistant in the web browser. Have also had issues with home assistant blocking the mobile app entirely at times. Seems like it really needs an update.

Jason N.

1 year ago

I really want this to be better, but it isn't. It's pretty okay on the web interface, but that's not what we're waiting here. We're rating the app version and it sucks. It's constantly having connection issues and it's not my router or Internet. A few days after and update it stops working and refuses to work until the next update until a few days later.. well you get the picture. It's like the instance is blocking just my phone inconsistently.

Trey Carpenter (t3xh)

1 year ago

I'm tentatively giving this 5 stars. The biggest benefit it seems to have over the web interface is that HVEC (h265) RTSP streams actually update live, but only if you click on them, otherwise they have about 30 seconds of lag. Update: goToRTS actually works on the app as well! So HVEC decoding must be built in! If you are having issues with ffmpeg and/or running it on an rpi, this app is the solution! I wish this was documented!

Andrew Aldridge

11 months ago

The latest update is using a lot more battery in background than before. My pixel 6 pro now shows 25% of battery goes to HA, even though screen time is only a few minutes. With exactly the same settings a month ago there was no such problem.

Demian Tinkiel

11 months ago

Overall, really good! Please add a separate notification channel for alarms (e.g. alarmo). That way they can be marked separately as hight priority and have a different sound, etc

Ivan Tomasic

11 months ago

Works great. I feel like the monthly subscription fee for remote access is a little high ($65 USD / ~$100 AUD). I know there's other ways around it, but I'd like to support the project. I'd be happier if it were $40 USD / ~$60 AUD a year. Also just a suggestion, it would be nice if swiping left or right anywhere switched between the tabs.

Steve W

4 years ago

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?

A Google user

5 years ago

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.

Josh Hill

4 years ago

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.

NobleKangaroo

3 years ago

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.

A Google user

5 years ago

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

Brendan Howell

3 years ago

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.

J Lindsay Whitton

1 year ago

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.