The official app for Home Assistant. Home Assistant for Android lets you control all your devices in your Home Assistant instance.
Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform that focuses on privacy and local control.
Home Assistant for Android requires that you have access to a Home Assistant instance.
For documentation around the application please see https://companion.home-assistant.io/
We are also working on supporting Wear OS. If interested be sure to check out the beta!
App crashes and fails to connect, but only when Android Auto is running. I didn’t dock this rating more than one star because I don’t know if it’s home assistant at fault, or just Android autos fault. Either way, everything else seems to work great. The automations I have running for when I arrive home don’t always work because Android auto stops it from updating the location because the app continuously crashes when I’m in my car running Android auto. Everything else works perfectly. Thank you!
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.
Good app, but won’t stop hammering my sensors no matter what I have set. Frequency is every 15 min and persistent connection turned off. I only have the default sensors + location. But every time I open the app, I get a sensor update notification multiple times per min until I close the app. It’s worst when I’m looking at the sensor list. The hit on battery gets so bad if left in the background.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Edit: I’ve been enjoying using this app, so I’m adding a star. I would still like for the app to recognize when I’m connected to WiFi so that it can connect to the host. This is a good start to a Home Assistant mobile companion app, but one function isn’t working properly. Home Assistant doesn’t use the local address when I’m on WiFi.
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?
I love home assistant but recently I’ve been getting an android message that says: “Home assistant isn’t Responding” about 10 times a day regardless of what I’m doing on my phone. The worst part is that it appears over other apps and disrupts the use of my phone. I’m not sure what’s changed to suddenly be giving me this issue. I’ve tried rebooting the phone and reinstalling the app. Nothing helps.
Was good but they are moving away from their core audience and breaking integrations that rely on yaml. Wishing I never updated as my entire home network now doesn’t work. Could have easily wrapped their front end around yaml but instead decided to exclude their core audience. This platform is supported by it’s creators, If you’re just starting on HA look elsewhere its stuck a ticking bomb to it’s chest.
I used many unofficial Home Assistant apps in the past before this official app was available, this has been by far the best experience. Over time this app has become feature rich and rock solid stable. Very happy with this companion app. Local notifications is awesome and load time has improved. All around great experience. 👍
Excellent for advanced users who need higher levels of control and customization if their smart home devices. Many things with Home Assistant can be complex so amateur users may want to elect for other options.
Has worked fine until last release, won’t connect when on the same LAN anymore. HA works fine in a browser on the phone over LAN, app just refuses. I have valid Let’s encrypt cert.
App keeps crashing in the background. Constantly. After almost every unlock and sometimes multiple times in quick succession after unlocking my phone. Otherwise it’s good
I love the app but… Please stop checking the url. I use the app on different locations and always cleared the url so that the app can automatically find the home-assistant server. When I now clear the url, the app tells me that the “url can not be parsed” … Please help. I don’t know the ip address (and have no way to check via my smartphone), and can not clear the “faulty” address (from different location) currently programed in the app…
Crashes constantly popping up annoying messages even if your not currently using the app. Does not work with Google or Alexa unless you pay a pretty hefty subscription. Smarthings has an initial cost if £99 but everything is free after that and if course you get the hardware with that too.
Unfortunately not working, suddenly stopped responding, crashing and displaying “isn’t responding” message all the time. Nothing helped.. don’t know what happened. No info from Devs
Great app, lately it’s been extremely slow for some reason though. Through my Android Chrome browser my HomeAssistant is lightning fast, but on this app it’s horribly slow to load. Not sure what the issue is
Constant crashes when the app cannot reach the HA server even when the app is not in use. It’s really annoying to have to dismiss “App is not responding” errors so often.
Seems to draw a lot of battery power… Not sure if that’s only when it can’t connect to the server or at all times
An excellent app for an excellent open source project. The only minor negative is that the app does only support connecting to one home assistant instance. Not all phones have a cloning app feature and using a PWA makes an inconsistent experience. I hope this feature is added soon enough to the app.
Love hass. Got rid of yeelight, magic home, smart home, broadlink apps. Web UI is much responsible then proprietary apps. It would be 5 but I have some issues with configuring widgets on MIUI “Call service issue”
The app worked on my old phone, but on my new phone, it won’t save my URL. Upon first launch, it prompted me for the URL, so I entered it. The next day, I opened the app and it prompted me to select my instance, but there were no options. I’m stuck using a browser for now.
It’s more or less a web viewer, now with push notification and (opt-in) location tracker which is useful for some specific home automation (i.e. automatically turn off all A/C and gas when no one’s home). Couldn’t have been any better though I wish the app supports multiple site usage.
Side bar is often popping a tiny bit out when it shouldn’t with android navigation gestures, which freezes up lovelace views until you get it to go back in
The future of Home Automation! We’ve been involved with wireless and proprietary, closed systems for over 20 years – and in just the last 3 months we’ve been so impressed with HA and its superb open, truly global and collaborative environment! Lots of learning ofc – but with HA self-sustaining home system there’s really no need for expensive, unreliable and closed cloud systems anymore. If you’re willing and able, the sky’s the limit with HA.
Since the last update I cannot connect to my Home Assistant server. The error message states that the Mobile App integration is not configured on my server. Manually added the Mobile App integration to the configuration.yaml file but it did not fix the issue. Please advise.
The ZigBee2MQTT interface is displayed wrong. Colors are in some cases inverted. Does not happen when using a browser.
Amazing! Seriously life changing what Hass unlocks. Anything you want to do you can achieve (with a lot of tinkering).
VERY unfriendly interface, explains NOTHING! All I want is to connect my phone to be able to control one device in my home which is compatible with Home Assistant. I have installed android apps to both my phone and device, and that is the end of the road. No explanation, no WIZARD, nothing!!!
I was thinking that this app would enable me to control my devices. However, upon opening the app it prompts me to “Select the instance you would like to connect to”. The title of this app, any info on this page, nor the linked page provides any detail about having a Home Assistant instance running on a seperate device. Can Home Assistant not run on an Android device? Is it not recommended? Why? Why not? So many unanswered questions. Maybe the title this app “Home Assistant sidekick” or similar
Great app to compliment home assistant, the premier home automation solution in my opinion, and it’s FREE.
I have an Samsung 22+ every time I create a new tag it does not save or write. I’m able to see it on homeassistant but when I go to the phone it does not display the trigger or call service action.
Unfortunately theme in the HA and this app changed and now if you have date time object (possibly others as well), it’s name can not be longer than 13 characters, otherwise it will be truncated. The datetime box is huge and takes the rest of the space although being mostly empty. I have reported this bug on the GitHub more than 6 months ago and nothing happened. After me urging it after months I got response that they “might adjust the theme”. I have to lower the rating.
Location doesn’t work. Doesn’t update and always shows as away.
Works very well – Only recently got into HA but assuming you’ve setup your screens correctly it will work great for controlling and monitoring your HA instance. Phone sensors work well too for automations.
Home Assistant is absolutely epic platform. However, you still need quite a lot of time to keep it working flawlessly (major releases can contain breaking changes), and a bit of a programming skill (though they are trying to make everything more accessible for regular people). Still, I love it and cannot recommend it enough. I have a ton of devices communicating with each other over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zigbee and Z-Wave, ranging from lights, heating, home security to pretty much everything else.
Downloaded and installed the app when I got a new phone with a version of Android that would work with it. The application has worked well for me with no real problems but is contingent on you having an understanding of how to set up Home Assistant to do what you want it to do. I am amazed by the commitment of the Home Assistant developers to produce such a polished system which, after a number of years of development, works reliably and consistently. I recommend Home Assistant and this app.
The app is great! But i noticed that when you look at a camera stream through the app and you return to the home screen, the stream goes on and it keeps consuming a lot of data. Fortunately I noticed this really quickly but still lost around 300mb in a few minutes. My phone allows to me to monitor the background data usage. I double checked if this was the case. 4/5, fix this quickly to get 5/5.
Pretty awesome app, behaves well for how it renders. Only gotcha is you cant have multiple HA instances connected to the app (example: one at a friend’s house and another at your house)
lags the phone and always asks you to refresh external url even though everything is working fine already. so ur endlessly hitting wait while it continues to work… so frikin annoying.