Home Assistant

A friend of mine got me interested, I delayed cause I was using Smarthings and wanted to get more out of my investment. But after moving to Home assistant everything in my home is automated it works flawlessly the app is great excellent service. One caveat you have to have a lot of computer skills a lot of programming understanding and quite a bit of technological competence to set it up, but if you meet that criteria there’s nothing better than a Home Assistant.

I love this app. For anyone looking into home control and home automation, Home Assistant is an open source (free) platform for control and automation of all your devices. This iOS app is the mobile companion that gives you access to all the same views and features as you'd have while at home. With frequent updates and ample support, you can't go wrong. A huge thanks to the developers that put their time into this!! Great app!!

Very well made, allowing for both easy and advanced configuration for notifications, location tracking, and control. You will have to get your hands dirty setting up a Home Assistant controller in your home, but I highly recommend it. There are a lot of great things you can customize and automate if willing to learn.

This works great, and gives a much nicer cleaner interface than bringing up HA on a web page in a browser. I think there may be a bug in the iPad version as I am unable to get the location service working. When I select enable in preferences for location updates, the app freezes. This happens on both my iPads (air and pro). I don't have an iPhone to test it on. Text notifications work good though. Haven't tried the more complicated notifications yet. I note that in system configuration under privacy/location services, that the home assistant app doesn't show up. This may indicate that there is something missing in the pilist file (think I remember name correctly) in the xtools iOS development environment.

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Would you be happy with a companion who forgets your name constantly and then forces you to spell it out completely each time? That’s the way I feel about this app that is incapable of storing the URL for any length of time, forcing you to retype it entirely each time it loses it. Ironically, there’s a default URL for the HA instance you’re running - so how hard can it be for this app to default to it? In fact, you’re better off just bookmarking the URL in your browser and forgetting about this app.