Wrong next alarm

Home Assistant Android version: 2.1.1-9-g8fef348-258-full

Android version: 10

Phone model: SM-G975F

Home Assistant version: 0.114.0

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Description of problem: The next alarm sensor seems to report all kinds of events. In my case instead of the next alarm tomorrow morning, I get the time of the next Tasker profile which triggers a task, which renders this sensor useless.

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[poofyteddy]

Hello, I encounter this and also hopped for a way to filter (which look like it’ won’t be 😦 ) basically tasker use what it call ‘Reliable alarm’ (google it up, having the right word help) in order to save battery while keeping stuff in sync. If you don’t have task that are based on precise time but only on event, you can disable this in tasker.

1. Triple dots
2. Preferences
3. Monitor
4. Use Reliable Alarms -> Never

Sadly this wasn’t enough for me with a Samsung phone because other app, (calendar but not only) created some alam … I will be looking for something else, maybe not use my phone as an alarm … i don’t know.

Hope this help

[dshokouhi]

We need an option to filter specific Packages on HA Companion Level… its just to much Changes which drains Battery/Traffic.

This will probably be an allow-list so users can just specify what apps they want the events from. There’s just too many apps out there, now and in the future, that can make use of this API. So its better to let the user dictate what to allow as opposed to what should be blocked. It is an alarm sensor so I would imagine if you downloaded a new alarm app you would want to add it to the list, as opposed to downloading something like Tasker and discovering it uses the API when you didn’t expect it to.

Also the Sensors should only sent Updates when there is an actual Change, not just pedriodically.

This was actually already completed in the last release, we only send an update if we have something new to send.

I would also like to have an Option to enable Queuing of Sensor Data if the HA Instance is not available.

There is no way to send back old data into HA, core will need to be updated to achieve that but I don’t think it will happen. The app itself is aware of when it doesnt send data over and we use that for our state change detection to make sure we send the next update once your server is back online.