iOS

If you want to get location accuracy lower than 500m without significantly impacting battery life, you can use region monitoring. There's two paths: 1. Set up a region around the user's current location. If they exit it, note the location and set up another one around that location. This will give you around 100m accuracy, which is the minimum diameter of the monitored region. 2. Set up regions in various cardinal directions that nearly-or-just-barely overlap. If they enter one of those regions, note the location and set up another set around the current location. This can give you something closer to 50m accuracy. For (2), this is how I did it in the Home Assistant iOS app, largely for zones that people wish to monitor which are smaller than 100m. You can find some of the annoying math here[1] (and there's tests all over for it), the log

I recently set up a "busy" indicator using Home Assistant (HA) and the Home Assistant Companion app for macOS. The desktop app exposes various MacBook sensors to HA, which can then trigger automations. When my microphone activates, it triggers an automation that powers a socket. A red LED lamp lights up, signaling to everyone that I’m on a call or recording a video. (1) https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/releases

I'm the maintainer of the iOS/macOS app these days. I'm not paid by Nabu Casa and I do it in my free time (if anything, Nabu Casa has avoided doing things which may inadvertently monetize my work to not my benefit, which I appreciate). There's no analytics nor reporting in the app. I've been slowly removing[0] things that talk to servers other than your Home Assistant server, but your private information's never left the device. Right now the app will talk to 2 additional sources, both of which you can disable in the Privacy settings: 1. alerts.home-assistant.io, which will alert for security issues but is strictly a JSON file it loads [1] 2. Firebase Cloud Messaging, for push notifications (since we can't talk to APNS directly in HA) FCM is a dependency I'm actively trying to kill off in favor of an implementation that is both end-to-end

I too am surprised to hear this. GP can you point to said spyware in the GitHub repo? https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS If not I’ll have to go with Christopher Hitchens on this one.