Massive battery consumption regardless of settings

Home Assistant Android version: 2022.6.0-full

Android version: 12

Phone model: Pixel 6

Home Assistant version: 2022.5.5

Last working Home Assistant release (if known): unknown

Description of problem: The Homeassistant app has massive battery consumption (see screenshot). This is despite having the following settings configured:

• sensor refresh interval is 15minutes
• always use google notifications / never direct web socket
• android battery setting for HomeAssistant is “restricted”, i.e. it should not even be possible to run in the background. I have no explanation how the app circumvents that. Maybe because I have some sensor widgets on my home screen? Even if the display is turned off, Homeassistant will always have a foreground activity.

Traceback (if applicable, to get the logs you may refer to: https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/troubleshooting/faqs/#android-crash-logs):

Screenshot of problem:

Additional information:

[hofst]

Only after a app restart, we also mention this in the description on the update frequency page.

Thanks, Indeed! Since it is the last sentence in a longer paragraph of explanations, this is rather easy to miss. Maybe as a small improvement there: I believe other apps will display an overlay once you change such a setting that says “Restart the app to apply new settings. Do you want to restart now? Yes/no”. But that’s only a minor improvement and this issue is about something different after all. I will give another update once I found out what actually caused the battery consumption (if I’m able to repro it again)

[dshokouhi]

• I enabled the background location sensor (every 15 minutes and not with high resolution): Result: The HA app has significant battery consumption and shows as having foreground activity 100% of the time. Not sure if that is expected? I would expect that a background location update with low resolution (no gps) every 15 minutes would not cause significant battery consumption or foreground activity all the time. This is on Android 12 and a Pixel 6. My wife has the same config on a Huawei Mate 20 Pro but there is not much battery consumption there. I wonder if either Huawei has implemented a better battery manager or if this is a problem with Android 12.

I think you need to give this page a read: https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/location#android-location-sensors

It is not every 15 minutes but every minute but can be as high as every 30 seconds if other apps on your device are getting location updates