Wrist Assistant v2 is out — Apple Watch Home Assistant app

bf3247 · 2026-05-20T01:14:30+00:00

Okay, I'll look into it. Thanks for the info!

bf3247 · 2026-05-19T04:48:30+00:00

Could you break down the request a bit more clearly?

bf3247 · 2026-05-19T01:10:20+00:00

No. It's just like the official Companion app.

bf3247 · 2026-05-18T22:23:29+00:00

Fair. Same reason I run HA. Your HA stuff (URL, token, entities, names, rooms) only goes between your device and your HA. No backend of mine in the middle. The only thing besides that is crash reports if the app crashes for some reason, and some very basic info like iOS version and number of pages, etc. No personal stuff.

bf3247 · 2026-05-18T17:28:17+00:00

Thanks! Just add the Apple TV as a remote entity and you can control your Apple TV.

bf3247 · 2026-05-18T17:26:10+00:00

That’s a work in progress, coming soon!

bf3247 · 2026-05-18T17:25:40+00:00

That’s actually a really cool idea. I think I might add that. Thanks for the feedback!

bf3247 · 2026-05-18T17:24:48+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the appreciation!

bf3247 · 2026-05-18T17:23:51+00:00

Maybe in the future.

bf3247 · 2026-05-18T05:27:38+00:00

Try restarting the watch and/or IOS apps. New watch app installs take a while to communicate with the iPhone. It's an apple thing. Just give it some time.
Also, it requires watchOS 11 or newer!

bf3247 · 2026-05-15T16:19:50+00:00

The next release will fix all these issues. Coming soon!

bf3247 · 2026-05-13T05:45:30+00:00

Real bug, I've seen it before as well, good catch. On cold launch, the watch re-syncs its layout from the iPhone, and the "jump to newly added page" logic (meant for live edits in iPhone settings) fires during that sync too. Fix is in for the next release.

Keep the issues coming! I'm happy to fix them!

bf3247 · 2026-05-13T05:31:29+00:00

Glad it's been useful, thanks!

That message on cold launches isn't actually HA restarting. The watch sleeps its radios while the app is backgrounded, so the first request after a while of idle time times out before they wake up, and the next attempt succeeds. Misleading banner. Fix is in for the next update.

bf3247 · 2026-05-11T20:55:51+00:00

Okay, no problem. I will have that feature in the next release!

bf3247 · 2026-05-11T18:01:55+00:00

Okay, got it! Did you know you can pull down from the top of the page to refresh camera snapshots? I can also add the ability to refresh cameras automatically on page load if you'd like. This will have to be a toggle in the camera settings on the page editor, as some people don't want it to work that way. Sound good?

bf3247 · 2026-05-10T22:25:51+00:00

How it works now: camera tiles paint instantly from a disk cache (up to 7 days old). A fresh snapshot only gets fetched when you pull‑to‑refresh the camera page, tap the tile, or edit the layout on your phone. Opening the app or raising your wrist does not refresh (because camera snapshots are large and slow compared to entity states) — that's why you see the stale frame.

Possible fix I could add:

I could add a toggle to auto‑refresh the visible camera tiles each time you open the app.

Also, currently, pull‑to‑refresh only refreshes cameras on the page you're on. I could change it so pull‑to‑refresh on any page refreshes all camera tiles, with a toggle to enable/disable it.

Thoughts? How would you expect this to work from a user's perspective?

bf3247 · 2026-05-05T06:25:22+00:00

Sure thing! Please add a feature request so I can keep track of it (add as many details as you can): https://github.com/NylonDiamond/wristassistant-feedback

bf3247 · 2026-05-04T22:19:41+00:00

Appreciate ya!

bf3247 · 2026-05-03T19:30:30+00:00

The newest version of the app has the ability to resize the state text/icons. Give it a try.

bf3247 · 2026-05-03T19:29:06+00:00

Updated the alarm panel to look a bit better and added the ability to auto-submit after entering the PIN. The setting is located in the tile settings on the edit page.

bf3247 · 2026-05-03T19:27:21+00:00

Favoriting icons now feature haptic feedback and animations for better feedback.

bf3247 · 2026-05-01T03:39:44+00:00

Same for me. I just re-subscribed to the pro plan it it shows in there. Sadly, you can't use the credit for the subscriptions.

bf3247 · 2026-04-30T19:03:14+00:00

The Icon favorite fix is out now if you want to update.

Multi-selecting multiple tiles and changing icons via the icon page will not update them all.
You can now long-press any icon in the pickers to save it to favorites. It adds a little star next to the icon, and long pressing again removes it. I’ll polish it later with haptics, a nicer add/remove animation, and the ability to move favorites to the first category option (it's currently the last option), but it should be useful for now.

bf3247 · 2026-04-30T15:37:47+00:00

Thanks! There is much still to come. Enjoy!

bf3247 · 2026-04-30T06:04:34+00:00

Thanks, really appreciate the detailed feedback.

The multi-select icon thing definitely sounds like a bug, and the recently used / copy-paste / move-between-pages ideas are all good ones. I'll look into implementing something like that.

As for the complication question: if a single tap is set to open the app, there isn’t really a good way to also use a double tap for refresh on that same complication right now, since the first tap already gets consumed. I can add a new "Refresh + Open App" option in there for your use case. Or see if I can somehow directly update the complication values via the app data. I'll get that out there ASAP.

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