Ariela: Android Wear

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…

Ariela: Quick Launch

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…

Last seen sensor

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…

Debug mode

Because Ariela must support so many versions of Android, so many versions of Home Assistant and configurations, there are cases when the application will not work as intended so issues like crashes, entities not shown etc could happen. In order to discover what the problem is, a debug mode was Read more…

MQTT Sensors

Once the MQTT setup is complete, you will be able to choose what device sensors informations you will want to enable / disable. In order to do that, go to Ariela -> Settings, find the MQTT options and click on “Sensors” entry. If successful a screen similar to this should Read more…

Authentication

In order to make Ariela extensible, we support 3 types of authentication to the Home Assistant server:  basic http api password (legacy support which can be removed by HA)  permanent token (HA version >= 0.78)  web login (HA version >= 0.78) 1.0 WiFi Name Here you will enter the your Read more…