In-app notifications

Suggestion and Feature Requests
1

Looks like the in-app pop-up notifications are useless and broken at least on Android phone.

I had a job running and due to weak GPS coverage yarbo was spending a lot of time waiting for the gps signal and since the wait times exceeded 10 minutes, there is an notification about yarbo being stuck. So when I open the app, the app cycles through all the missed notifications as pop-up floating banner … but the thing is - the notification banners are still empty.

Of course it’s nothing critical, but might need some improvements.

See the attached screen recording.

2

I had to make a home assistant automation if the state stays in problem for too long it notifies me. Then you can apply an android notification category and change the ringtone, whether it interrupts DND, etc.

alias: MOW-E Problem Persistent Alert
description: >-
  Repeats high-priority mobile notifications every 15 minutes when MOW-E enters
  a problem state until cleared.
triggers:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.mow_e_problem
    to: "on"
    for:
      minutes: 1
    trigger: state
conditions: []
actions:
  - repeat:
      until:
        - condition: state
          entity_id: binary_sensor.mow_e_problem
          state: "off"
      sequence:
        - action: notify.notify
          data:
            title: ⚠️ MOW-E Problem Detected
            message: MOW-E has encountered a problem and requires attention.
            data:
              tag: mow_e_problem_alert
              sticky: true
              ttl: 0
              priority: high
        - delay:
            minutes: 15
  - action: notify.notify
    data:
      message: clear_notification
      data:
        tag: mow_e_problem_alert
3

Well. The notifictions goes to the phone. Just during the work plan, they pile up and i can see al of them among other notification on the phone. But when I open the app, the app cycles through all “unseen” notifications with that blank floating banner.
As I told - nothing critical, but could be removed.

4

Thanks for your feedback. I’ll help pass this along to our team for further review.

5

I don’t know why they struggle with notifications. It’s very mature and well documented in both Android and iPhone. Home Assistant handles them magically. I’m on iPhone and use Persistent notifications and my favorite Critical notifications that will appear over everything and sound and alert even if the phone is muted.