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* Blog for Android 2023.3 * Resize image, more break * Review comments, compress images * Review comment * Remove duplicate * Update header image * Review comments * Update date * Remove store link TODO * Amazon Appstore link * Update date, again * Re-date to March 30 --------- Co-authored-by: Paulus Schoutsen <balloob@gmail.com>
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title: "Android 2023.3: Multiple servers & Windows 11 app"
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description: "It's finally here: add multiple servers to the Home Assistant Android app, install the app on Windows 11 devices and more!"
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date: 2023-03-30 00:00:00
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date_formatted: "March 30, 2023"
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author: Joris Pelgröm
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comments: true
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categories:
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- Release-Notes
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og_image: /images/blog/2023-03-30-android/social.png
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It's finally here, one of the most common feature requests for the Home Assistant
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Android Companion app: you can now configure multiple Home Assistant servers. The
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app can send sensor updates to all servers and easily mix and match widgets, tiles,
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and controls for different servers 🎉
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Plus, a preview of the Home Assistant app is now available via the Amazon Appstore
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on Windows 11, which allows you to quickly connect your computer to Home Assistant.
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There are also other changes that add some polish to the app and improve support
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for features in the latest Home Assistant releases, so let's dig into the update!
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## Configure multiple Home Assistant servers
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Sometimes, one Home Assistant instance is not enough. You like Home Assistant so
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much that you decide to help someone else get started, there's a second home in
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your life, or you regularly visit someplace else where they're using Home Assistant.
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Before this update, if you wanted to access more than one server it was a bit of a
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hassle. Switching apps, creating bookmarks, and using different profiles. Let alone
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connecting your Android device to multiple servers for features like sensors
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and notifications.
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This issue now belongs to the past, as there's a new option in **{% my config title="Settings" %}** >
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**Companion app** to configure a second server, and another one after that, and another...
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They will all show up in the app, and you can use all features you've come to
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expect, like lots of sensors for your device and support for push notifications.
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Each one gets individual settings, so if you don't want to share your step count
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and enable location tracking everywhere, that's OK.
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That's not all - you can also use all servers _outside_ the app, mixing and
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matching servers when using shortcuts, notifications, widgets, tiles and controls.
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Toggling lights from three different homes side-by-side? No problem!
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Note: the Wear OS app does not yet support multiple servers.
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## Now available on Windows 11 (preview)
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The Home Assistant Android Companion app is now available [via the Amazon Appstore]
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on [supported Windows 11 devices]. While there are already great options to integrate your
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computer from the community out there, the Companion app makes it easy to start
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and benefits from all the work on the Android app, frequently adding new features.
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Windows does not always provide correct information to the app and may shut down
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background work, including sensors, after several minutes, which is why we are
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releasing Windows 11 support for the app as a preview. Android support in Windows
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11 continues to get better and we intend to make adjustments to improve the
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experience in the future.
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[via the Amazon Appstore]: amzn://apps/android?asin=B09RP3DM5T
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[supported Windows 11 devices]: https://support.microsoft.com/windows/f8d0abb5-44ad-47d8-b9fb-ad6b1459ff6c
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## Refining Wear OS
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The Home Assistant app has been available for over a year now on Wear OS watches
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and continues to improve. Earlier this year, initial support for Assist was added,
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and in this update [@dshokouhi] made it easier to access using a watchface
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complication. Now Assist is only a tap away!
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Got a lot of entities and want to hide the clutter on your watch? You could already
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add favorites which would be displayed at the top of the app, but it would still load
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all entities below them. Now, there is an option to only show favorites to reduce
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what gets loaded and prevent accidental changes. Try it out and let us know if you
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prefer this more focused experience!
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[@SkechyWolf] and [@dshokouhi] also worked on the look and feel of the app to make it
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fit in better with other modern Wear apps.
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[@SkechyWolf]: https://github.com/SkechyWolf
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[@dshokouhi]: https://github.com/dshokouhi
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## Other noteworthy changes
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There's more in this update, here are some highlights:
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- Any sensor with a location attached will now show up for navigation when using Android
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Auto. Nice one, [@dshokouhi]!
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- [@jpelgrom] added initial support for the new Thread integration in 2023.3. Thank you!
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- [@Adi146] and [@dshokouhi] worked to make the Beacon Monitor more reliable when in the
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background and when toggling it on and off, nice to see improvements!
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- Put a lot of work in a custom dashboard, only to have it break on your phone because of
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text that is ever so slightly too small or unwanted auto-rotation? No more, as [@dmiales]
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tweaked settings to prevent this from happening!
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- Got a notification that should only show up on your watch? In the previous update, support
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was added for notifications to the Wear OS app, and in this update work continues by
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[@dshokouhi], with the app now supporting TTS notifications.
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Even more people worked on fixing bugs in this update, like [@Suxsem] and [@JBassett]. Thanks
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to all of those who contributed. If you have a good idea to improve the app or found a bug to
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fix, feel free to [join us on the forums] or [contribute on GitHub].
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[join us on the forums]: https://community.home-assistant.io/c/mobile-apps/android-companion/42
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[contribute on GitHub]: https://github.com/home-assistant/android
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[@Adi146]: https://github.com/Adi146
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[@dmiales]: https://github.com/dmiales
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[@JBassett]: https://github.com/JBassett
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[@jpelgrom]: https://github.com/jpelgrom
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[@Suxsem]: https://github.com/Suxsem
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## All changes
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You can find a complete list of all changes made for this update here:
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[Full changelog for Home Assistant Android 2023.3.0].
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[Full changelog for Home Assistant Android 2023.3.0]: https://github.com/home-assistant/android/releases/tag/2023.3.0
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