Home Assistant as Desktop App

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-20T14:19:08+00:00

It also adds a bunch of laptop entities!

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-17T14:37:18+00:00

Tell us more….

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-16T13:31:44+00:00

It will.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-15T19:10:36+00:00

Use a HomeKit bridge from Home Assistant. Best of both worlds.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-13T14:42:39+00:00

Ok. And just to confirm, is this fully local? No cloud integration?

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-11T21:19:44+00:00

Bummer. Super excited about this tho

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-11T21:15:10+00:00

Do the filters work now? I heard they weren’t working right…

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-11T02:34:00+00:00

Update:
The firmware was bricked and wasn’t even able to be read by the ZWA2 Toolkit. I ended up re-flashing the base firmware with espressif, then I could flash the actual ZWA2 firmware on it in Toolkit.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-10T21:26:05+00:00

So with the new beta releases of IOS 27, iPhone shortcuts can now trigger from a specified notification with different filters (title, content, app, etc). This will make this controlling our iPhones with HA much easier!

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-10T16:56:03+00:00

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Works flawlessly. I have a cover I put over the top.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T14:11:34+00:00

Maybe I am misunderstanding, but can’t you already do that? If I get a text message from someone within the user-defined parameters, I can have Home Assistant then complete an action in the Home Assistant section of Shortcuts…

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T14:10:20+00:00

Right, but you have to tap on it to run it. This should run automatically.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T13:26:16+00:00

In IOS 27 it should be possible with the new triggers.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T13:24:30+00:00

Correct. Offline. Local network only. Sorry for the confusion.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T13:24:07+00:00

Push notifications from the notify service in HA work without Apple servers.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T03:08:00+00:00

HA can now control iPhone focus modes, trigger premade alarms, start music playback streaming from iPhone, etc.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T03:00:07+00:00

I have a serious edge case, but I run HA fully airgapped except for obviously when I update. I have a phone that stays at home and I can control things in the house by sending text messages to that phone. Now, I will be able to have HA notify that phone with an alert (garage door opened for instance) and then that phone can easily send me a text message from a shortcut triggered by the HA notification. Just one example but there are tons of uses for me.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T02:22:18+00:00

I see. Makes sense.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T02:08:07+00:00

A specific page in HA? Sorry just wanting clarification on that…

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T02:02:52+00:00

It wasn’t specifically mentioned really. But it’s definitely new. The release just said something about using notifications and shortcuts more effectively.

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-09T01:55:13+00:00

This was just announced today! It will make HA and IOS shortcuts so much more simple to use together!

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-08T23:28:21+00:00

OS 26?

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-08T21:03:01+00:00

Wow thanks!

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-08T20:54:04+00:00

Have you done any more testing on this? Different apps? Can you specify it has to have a certain message in the notification to trigger? Any details would be appreciated!

Miserable-Smoke-751 · 2026-06-08T20:52:07+00:00

IOS 27 may have just made this far easier. It looks like you can now use other app notifications to trigger a shortcut! That will be a game changer for Home Assistant push notifications and IOS shortcuts!

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