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iron rose Mar 30, 2025, 4:28 PM

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I don't know what I am doing wrong but I have consistently High Battery consumption because of the Homeassistant companion app.
In the app I got two different servers configured and nothing else special comes to mind as oddly configured... Maybe i have something that is?

How do I trouble shoot what is using the battery within the App?

Do I have to have unrestricted usage of background activities?

I'm on a stock Pixel 9 Pro and the latest Android release.
Companion App is the Google Play version.

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half tapir Mar 30, 2025, 4:30 PM

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Best place to start is here https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/troubleshooting/faqs/#android-app-battery-drain

iron rose Mar 30, 2025, 6:05 PM

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Thanks, I don't think any of those really "hit" my settings.
I don't really understand this:
Check that none of the Notification Sensors have the allow list disabled in their respective settings. You always want to define an allow list to prevent heavy battery usage.
How do I change / Check those?

Do you have experience having two instances configured at the same time? - Maybe my hunch is wrong that it's something that is causing the added battery drain?
I'll test a couple of days and see if there's a change.

half tapir Mar 30, 2025, 7:09 PM

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yea have my own and my parents setup....you check the sensors the same place you enable you enable them...settings > companion app > manage sensors

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check your data usage too, might be related to a camera stream if you have data in addition to battery drain

normal garnet Apr 2, 2025, 7:40 AM

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Hi, for the last month publishing to the Play Store has somehow been stuck, the latest beta version is 2025.3.1, is this a known "issue"?

half tapir Apr 2, 2025, 4:28 PM

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normal garnet Hi, for the last month publishing to the Play Store has somehow been stuck, the ...

Hey there yes we are aware, Google has yet to approve any build since that one....all we can do is wait unfortunately

twin bane Apr 9, 2025, 8:25 AM

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I am on a Pixel also, and suffer high consumption when I am viewing my cameras on the dashboard, especially if I have the toggle for keeping live video going

half tapir Apr 9, 2025, 2:14 PM

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twin bane I am on a Pixel also, and suffer high consumption when I am viewing my cameras o...

the only fix is to be mindful of leaving the app without a video feed in view....i think the webrtc card may help too but as long as a camera stream is visible when you leave teh app the stream may never stop

half tapir Apr 9, 2025, 2:15 PM

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normal garnet Hi, for the last month publishing to the Play Store has somehow been stuck, the ...

latest beta was approved yesterday btw

iron rose Apr 16, 2025, 9:03 AM

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half tapir the only fix is to be mindful of leaving the app without a video feed in view......

Ummh, I have a camera stream on my main dashboard... so that might be a reason but it's not using the data... is it?

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data usage us pretty high... 1.15 GB since 3rd April... but nothing super strange as it's some camera streams...
I noticed that I have cameras streams on most of my dashboards....

iron rose May 13, 2025, 10:04 AM

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Seems like this is related to (a bug?) the app drawing heaps more battery if you have the default dashboard with a live camera feed on it.

Anyone else tried to replicate this?

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... and this is not described in the link to FAQs above...

iron rose May 16, 2025, 8:49 PM

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Can someone please test so it can be replicated and confirmed?

half tapir May 16, 2025, 9:18 PM

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This is a known issue https://github.com/home-assistant/android/issues/979

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