Ariela Pro - Home Assistant Client 1.2.4.9

Reviews

5 ★, on 2021-01-26
Love it! I really like the UI and the device tracker seem to more accurate than the official Hass app. Only thing though, it would be nice to have the lovelace toggle like they have the webui. For example, I have multiples lights on an lovelace card and I can toggle it all of them with a toggle on the top of the lovelave bar. Otherwise, great app!

3 ★, on 2020-11-12
Update; The developer seems to have lost interest in this application maybe? Hasn't been an update since April 2020. Sent an email mentioning lack of support for a couple of basic cards in newer version of Home assistant and I got a reply that an update was coming in a week. That was a month ago. I still can't turn off my bedside lamp with this app.

1 ★, on 2020-11-13
Worked up until I started using DuckDNS. Cannot get to work now. My tablet doesn't support the official app so using the pro version of this instead. Works really well and has some great features. Good app but needs support for more Lovelace UI cards. Particularly 'button'

5 ★, on 2019-06-07
I really liked this app! So much that I was considering getting a Wear OS watch (I have had a Pebble for the past 5 years). However, when my phone battery got unusually low I discovered that Ariela Pro had used 17% of the battery in 19 hours. That is on a Pixel 2, so all the system battery usage is unreported. That is way more than anything I have seen before. For now I have uninstalled the app. Will try again in the future. Installed it again. I think there have been at least two updates since my first review. Today it has used 7% over 12 hours. Much better! I don't think I have any sensors enabled. Very little automation done so far. Currently just relying on the sun. Think I better move this over to the community discussion.

3 ★, on 2019-09-01
This app has a ton of settings. I like it very much. The reason why I didn't give it 5 stars is because of the battery drain issue. I use the location tracking function. Since enabling this option I noticed my OnePlus6 battery is dead after 1 day. 40% battery usage by the Ariela app. Latest version is installed. Hopefully there's a quick fix for this. If not I'm afraid I need to uninstall this app for some time.

5 ★, on 2019-01-10
I switched to Ariela from Zanzito, as the latter wasn't being updated anymore: so far so good! The dev is working hard to improve the app and it shows: lots of functionalities are being introduced every day. There are some things to iron out (especially due to the ways that Lovelace UI can be customized, so some custom cards and components aren't fully supported yet), but I'm sure everything will be fixed.