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Multi-server support in iOS

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The iOS companion app for Home Assistant has been released, and in this version multiple server support has been released.

This allows you to connect to multiple instances of Home Assistant. Maybe you have an installation at home, at your parents and your partner. Or just have your main Home Assistant and also run another for testing new integrations. Now you can switch between them. Swipe with 3 fingers left, right or up to quickly switch between servers.

In addition, the following changes have been made:

Miscellaneous

  • Changes how Shortcuts run on iOS 14 or later and macOS 11 or later, hopefully improving reliability.
  • Notification categories are now fully deprecated and support for them will be removed in iOS-2022.4. It’s time to transition to in-notification actions. See the docs.
  • iOS: Swipe left and right with two fingers to navigate forward and back in the frontend.
  • macOS: Adds Audio Output sensors, showing the current active audio device.
  • macOS: Renames Microphone to Audio Input for new installs.

Onboarding Improvements

  • Adds button to export logs when showing an onboarding error to aid in bug reporting.
  • Fixes error message for the mobile_app component not being loaded.
  • Fixes error 404 when server URL has a trailing /.
  • Fixes connecting when the internal URL doesn’t work but the external does. The app will now use the external only for connecting.
  • Fixes Cloud not being enabled by default during onboarding.
  • Fixes ‘timeout’ errors during onboarding if only an internal URL is set in the server config.
  • Fixes potentially confusing error when “Local Network” privacy permission was not granted.
  • macOS: Fixes a case where onboarding would get stuck at Location permission.
  • macOS: Fixes a confusing situation where the app expects Safari to open during onboarding but there’s a system bug preventing it.

Bug fixes

  • Fixes time sensitive notification interruption levels not working.
  • Fixes avatar in settings showing a black line on some edges, depending on font sizes.
  • macOS: Fixes Focus changes causing incorrect/outdated information to be sent for other sensors.
  • iOS: Fixes AirPlay showing a different version of the frontend than what’s on-screen
  • iOS: Improves the reliability of the “Local Push” status, which is now under the server rather than in Notifications.

Known Issues

  • Actions, scene actions, and notification categories defined in the HA configuration with duplicate identifiers across multiple servers will fight each other; one server value will win.