iOS privacy restricting name access | Home Assistant | Page 1

compact dove Sep 13, 2022, 11:44 AM

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It’s a new iOS privacy thing. Devs are working on it. Needs allow listing from Apple. Otherwise you can edit it in the companion app settings and reload the integration for mobile app in home assistant

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Have to set the device name manually

gleaming patio Sep 13, 2022, 2:34 PM

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Sorry did not see this until now.

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But it’s odd that all sensor entities do have my full name but the notify one does not, no?!

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I just edited the setting as per your suggestion and it does indeed change the name of the entity. It renders it differently than the sensor entities though.

Set device name (both in iOS and the app) to “Rob’s iPhone”:

Sensor entities render as sensor.rob_s_iphone_sensor_name but its notify.mobile_app_robs_phone. So the ‘ in one case becomes and underscore and the other just gets removed.

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Not an issue really, but the lack of consistency seems odd.

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Anyway, thanks very much for the pointer @compact dove

ivory gyro Sep 13, 2022, 2:46 PM

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the smart curly quote is treated differently by HA so it changes the name when you type it without one. you can insert a space where the quote was to match it.

compact dove Sep 13, 2022, 3:00 PM

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np.

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The crummy thing was I was using sourceID in my automation and that's stuck regardless of changing the value:

data:
  actionID: lock_door
  actionName: lock_door
  sourceDeviceID: iphone
  sourceDeviceName: Michael’s iPhone
  sourceDevicePermanentID: F9567FD2-<snip>
  triggerSource: watch
origin: REMOTE
time_fired: "2022-09-12T21:15:28.940615+00:00"
context:
  id: <snip>
  parent_id: null
  user_id: <snip>```

#iOS privacy restricting name access