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Ariela: Access Home Assistant server without a dynamic DNS service
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
Android Wear
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…
Quick Launch
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…
Documentation
Notifications Grabber
Learn how to send notifications information triggered by other apps to Home Assistant
Documentation
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…
Documentation
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
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…
Documentation
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…