Here you can find some articles of some of Ariela functions
Learn how to tell Ariela your Home Assistant server so you can connect to it from outside local WiFi Network without having a dynamic DNS service
Learn how to control Home Assistant from Android Wear smartwatch and Ariela. 1.0 Setup After installing and configuring Ariela on your smartwatch, go to Settings -> Ariela Wear (watch). Before continue, be sure that your Android Wear smartwatch has the screen on and its unlocked. Once that is confirmed, on Read more…
This feature is available in 2 ways: available from the system menu available from long pressing the Home button key (Assistant Mode) Ariela: Quick Launch – System Menu In order to have this function enabled, open your system menu, and based on your phone click button order or the edit Read more…
Learn how to use Home Assistant to trigger custom Ariela updates even if the app its not currently running.
Learn how to send notifications information triggered by other apps to Home Assistant
You can use Ariela in combination with Home Assistant in order to receive notifications directly on your Android device. What can you do more is using those notifications to send custom commands back to the server. One cool example: receive notification that someone opened your front door, and using the Read more…
It could happen that Ariela will lose connection / unable to connect to Home Assistant so it will not be able to send updates like geolocation, sensors informations etc. For this scenario, a new MQTT sensor was introduced called “Ariela Availability”. This MQTT sensor state will be equal to the Read more…
Use this Ariela MQTT sensor to trigger scenes / automations in Home Assistant based on the next scheduled alarm from your phone. In order to enable this functionality, go to Ariela -> Settings -> MQTT -> Sensors and enable Alarm sensor. Note that this functionality will need to have the Read more…