[Done] Accommodate multiple instances of Home Assistant from the app.

[swperic]

Accommodate multiple instances of Home Assistant from the app.
It would be great to be able to save multiple URLs for Home, Office, Studio and be able to get notifications from all that are "enabled". I love the iOS app!

ps. sorry I cant figure out how to tag this as a feature request

[jchasey]

Would like to second this feature request!

[robbiet480]

While we are closer to being able to implement this thanks to the overhaul done in 1.5.0, I would still have to say that it's probably pretty unlikely this ever gets implemented unless I hear a lot of feedback requesting it. And I totally understand how frustrating this is as my parents use SmartThings + Alexa which only supports one location. It would just be a ton of work to rebuild everything to support multiple locations. Apologies.

[jchasey]

Thanks for the honest feedback. Would there be an easier approach which is to have at least multiple config options and you can switch between them in the app, ie only one would be live at one time?

[robbiet480]

This is probably more trouble that it will be worth, but when we start beta testing of 2.0.0 you will be able to have the beta app and released app installed side by side without having conflicting data or any links between the two. You could set up each one for a different location.

[Scirpus22]

This is must have feature! Would love to see it in future

[Pre10der]

I would like to weigh in on this. A lot of work yes, I get it, but this has become critical for me for a couple of reasons. It can provide the ability to run discrete HA instances on seperate RPis within my own home to balance out particular functions that can’t all run on a single Pi. The app would act as an aggregation point. Additionally, i have installed multiple HA deployments across other family members homes, and we would like to to be able to share access and leverage the device-tracking integration that app provides. This is even more pertinent given that the HA user security model is moving towards a privileged based approach (users vs. administrators).
So, supporting multiple instances within the app isn’t just about multiple HA deployments, it’s also about the app supporting multiple user contexts within a single HA deployment without logging in and out...painful with OTP enabled.

[maxx]

👍 for this.

one instance for home, and one for commercial.

[LAltinell]

Also want to vote up this feature! I believe this to be a crucial part of supporting the upcoming v1 release of Home Assistant. With that said, I very much respect your opinion in this matter!

[amcox]

I would also like to request this feature. I have HA installations at my vacation home as well as full time home.

Even the ability to quickly switch between instances and remember login information from within the app, rather than integrating multiple locations into one interface, would be very helpful.

Thank you.

[matteofranceschini]

Even the ability to quickly switch between instances and remember login information from within the app, rather than integrating multiple locations into one interface, would be very helpful.

This would be more than enough! I'd love that!

[nickb512]

I have finally finished migrating my house to HA from ST and was about to start migrating the other properties I look after (parents house, holiday home, mobile home) but this is a major barrier. I won’t be able to get native push notifications from my home while I’m at the holiday home?

Never thought I would say this, but I guess the others will have to stay on ST :(

[gianky69]

This would be great!

[treetopsflyer]

This request Is a critical feature. Many people who would automate a home will likely need multiple instances. Examples would be vacation home, parent’s home, business, ect. In my case it’s an airplane hangar.

The reason it’s crucial is for monitoring/notifications at a location not visited every day. Be it security, smoke, water leak, ect, many have set up HA to alert us of these critical things as a self-monitored system. Not having this ability really cripples the entire idea of automation providing peace of mind as well as control.

[jes1417]

@maxx came here for this!

[nibblerrick]

If something like switching servers will be implemented maybe it could be useful to access it with forcetouch (or however it is now named) like Blue Iris does it.

I would like to see this feature.

[jwhowa]

Rather than start another thread on this horse-beaten topic, I thought I would reply here and just add something to consider for a (possible future) integration.

HA is extremely intelligent, and made more so by the users and devs of it, so it would seem to me the HA app could easily tell (by SSID, or Geolocation or etc) that I have moved from "home 1" to "home 2" and connect me with me stored credentials, could it not?

Alternately, if there was a way to "trust" (think Microsoft) one HA domain from another one, you could just establish a trust between home A and B, and set rules that allow home A users to talk to home B or vice versa or two way or whatever.

I'm not the wizard to code such a thing, but I thought I would share the concepts in case anyone finds them interesting for future development or consideration.

Thanks all for making this platform fantastic. No one (Alexa, Google, Hue, etc) can do everything, but HA is the one ring that can in the darknes bind them. :)

-Jim

[ericreich]

I also would like to see this feature in the app and not sure we are going to get anywhere as I have even seen suggestions of floating funding around with no biters... but have since just setup different accounts with NABU Casa for each device ($5.00) per device/account. I have been happy with this solution of just using the HA app for the primary HA install, then using a Web link for the secondary install.

[Kimsejer]

Has been missing this feature for a long time now... +1

[Travisco29]

My current workaround for this dosent always work but it is to have a home assistant lovelace page in panel mode with the webpage card. I set this webpage to point to the other instance

[zacwest]

Here's a sneak peek at an early version of multi-server support:

multiserver.mp4

Many of the major technical hurdles are done, and it's the culmination of a lot of things such as the most recent project of rewriting all of onboarding.

A future version will likely include a tabbed UI to swap between servers faster, but I have to figure out the visual design of this more. Probably something like:

[               Status Bar                ]
[Tab 1] [Tab 2]         [Quick Actions] [+]
-------------------------------------------
[                WebView                  ]

(I've also been itching for a way to get the 'e'/'c' shortcuts on iOS, feels like a good place for it.)

There's still a ton of work left, mind you, but enough is done that I feel comfortable sharing an update here. Enjoy the suspense. 😈

[bkvargyas]

Wow! Great work! Looking good!

[Shaver443]

This is looking awesome. Cant wait for a production release! Waiting on pitching home assistant to a client who has multiple locations.

[Redebo]

@zacwest This looks amazing. Thank you for undertaking this big project!

[slaeyer]

Amazing work so far, wow!

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[PRGeno]

Looks like a great way to implement this feature. Nicely done!

[floodwayprintco]

Stoked! Thank you!

[Travisco29]

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[zacwest]

The latest beta release has support for multiple servers. It could use testing over the next few weeks, please give it a try: https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/releases

[Codelica]

@zacwest 👍 Just one question...

Are the device location updates going to be reported to all of the servers configured, or just the one currently "activated" in the device UI ?

If it's reported to all, I'll name my next child Zac. ;)

[zacwest]

Activate only controls which server is shown visually; location is sent to all the servers.

[zacwest]

Version 2021.12 is now live, which has support for multiple servers. Feel free to open additional discussions on new features, I think we can consider this one done.

[Koffeinuser]

Fantastic work!

However, I made a mess for myself as I have one instance that is connected to Nabu Casa.

Is there any documentation that describes that scenario? I would happily have two Nabu Casa instances since it simplifies things.

[Weldawadyathink]

Configure your NC instance with the local and cloud urls just like normal. Configure the second server with the local url. Easy as that. Obviously it will only connect to the instance without NC when on the corresponding network.

[hacker-cb]

Thank you, great job.

Actually 3-finger swap is not very convenient.

I have some ideas:

1. Display current home name instead of “Home Assistant” label on the top of the menu and display home list, when clicking to it.
2. Add app config option “start home”: use last home / choose manually / choose on geo

[ydeschoe]

Zac, I’m missing the app configuration option on my IOS device running 15.2 How can i have this option back to configure the dual system option Regards, Yves Deschoenmaekers

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[ydeschoe]

Please ignore found it Verstuurd vanaf mijn Mobiel toestel Groeten, Yves Deschoenmaekers

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