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:iphone: Home Assistant Companion for Android
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Sensors as favourites in WearOS #3894

Open quack3d opened 1 year ago

quack3d commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When using different watch faces and trying out new ones it's very frustrating to select for instance temperature sensors from HA as complications in the watch face. #2804 made it better, but it's still a lot of sensors to scroll through.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like it to be possible to add sensors as favourites.

dshokouhi commented 1 year ago

So this will require the app to support read-only entities without any action. I do not think we should add a sensor domain category as that has the potential to crash the app with too many listed and changing entities. We should also avoid listing them as entities in the shortcut tile as they will not be operational there. We have quite a few considerations to go over for this request. Also makes you wonder if sensors as favorites is the correct way to go if this is only for complication selection. I don't think sensors have a good use anywhere else in the Wear OS app.

quack3d commented 1 year ago

I suppose someone would actually appreciate being able to listing them in the shortcut tile if it would show the state of the sensor. It would be a simpler way to display temperature, lock status etc without using templating. But I guess it would require some kinda updating service for the shortcut tile as it probably doesn't have this now?

dshokouhi commented 1 year ago

States in shortcut tile will not be possible to keep them up to date, lots of discussion around that already in https://github.com/home-assistant/android/issues/2045