HSBuddy1.0.90 - App Store

HSBuddy is a free application for iOS(R) that turns your mobile device into the ultimate companion for your HomeSeer(R) home automation system. With the included Apple Watch companion app you can take control of your home from your wrist!

Certain features require an additional HomeSeer controller plug-in which you can install from the plug-in manager in your HomeSeer configuration pages. Look for HSBuddy under the User Interfaces section.

Complement your home automation experience and use HSBuddy to:

. Control and edit devices
. Run and edit events
. View history of device state changes *
. View images from your home cameras **
. Create your own customized dashboards
. Speed up your daily automation tasks
» Create Siri shortcuts
» Place Widgets for your Home Screen
. Send push-notifications to your devices as part of your server events
. Browse your HomeSeer server logs *
. Enable geo-location on the app and location-based events *
. Automatically switch between local-WiFi and remote connectivity to your server based on your location.
. Connect to multiple HomeSeer servers and switch quickly between them
. Use Smart Tags to quickly control a device or run an event by tapping a tag with your phone

*Requires installing the free HSBuddy HomeSeer controller plug-in
**Compatible with some existing HomeSeer controller camera plug-ins

To use this app you need a running instance of HomeSeer. To find out more, visit http://www.homeseer.com

For more information and troubleshooting help, go to http://hsbuddy.avglabs.net

Version History New: Widget actions now support opening an arbitrary image
Fix: Links should open using the system's browser
Fix: App crashes when asking for a PIN code 1.0.90 Jul 5 New:
- Map dashboard widget — view client locations on an interactive map
- Support for location history — shown as breadcrumbs in map

Bug fixes:
- App may crash occasionally on startup
- Dashboard widget device icons may freeze in certain scenarios.
- Scanning NFC tags opens Safari instead of HSBuddy.
- Widgets may not connect when using multiple server profiles.
- Background geolocation can stop working after a change in HomeSeer proxy address.
- Minor UX fixes. 1.0.89 Jun 13 - Ability to create background Siri shortcuts that do not bring the app to the foreground
- Prompt user for feedback and/or rating after opening the app a few times
- Other minor UX fixes 1.0.88 06/20/2025 Minor UX fixes 1.0.87 01/29/2025 Dashboard updates new options available in latest server editor:
- Display widgets without a border
- Set custom background color for widgets

New report flow to submit issues from the app 1.0.86 11/26/2024 Widgets:
- Control devices without opening the app (iOS 17+)
- Circular accessory widget available for Lock Screen
- Option to show device status as caption

Apple Watch:
- Complications now support accent colors

Other:
- Minor UX fixes 1.0.85 07/16/2024 Fix: Links embedded in device status should open on the system browser
Fix: Better reliability for background notifications
New: Send location updates directly to your server (no longer uses a proxy)
Fix: Re-enable app for iOS version 12 and up
New: Home Screen widgets now support custom shortcuts
Fix: Some dashboards showed wrong font size in auto-resized text fields
Fix: Device history cannot be accessed from favorites list 1.0.84 03/07/2024 Geolocation improvements. New tracking mode: 'Fence'. In this mode, HSBuddy will only track when device enters or leaves a geofence. This provides a significant improvement to power consumption.

Home Screen Widgets. You can now add a small widget with up to 4 devices to your Home Screen. To configure a new widget, go to Options > Shortcuts > Widgets 1.0.83 02/02/2024 New: Complications for Apple Watch (make sure to update the plug-in on the server if you use device complications)

Fix: App fails to write or format new NFC tags

This build includes other minor visual fixes and improvements 1.0.82 07/24/2023 * New: Inline controls in device lists to interact with devices without navigating away from the list
* Improved: Clustering of devices in lists to better match the behavior of the HS4 website
* New: Color picker to control devices that support color input
* Fix: Not all devices with range input can be controlled from Apple Watch
* Fix: Unable to connect via Apple Watch to HS using a local IP address
* Fix: Geolocation updates were missing or late after updating to iOS 16.4 1.0.81 05/22/2023 • New: Device presets let you set 1-click actions for devices with ranged controls.
• Update: Better configuration options to choose devices and events that are shared with your smart watch app.
• Update: Support for local and non-SSL connections from SmartWatch to your HS controller 1.0.80 10/01/2022 • New: Apple Watch companion app - take control of your home from your wrist!
• New: Select one of several built-in sounds when configuring push notification actions on your server. Requires the latest version of the HS4 plug-in installed on your server.
• Fix: Stability improvements on requests to HS controller 1.0.79 08/25/2022 Minor fix: Unable to control devices with text box input from Quick Actions 1.0.77 05/03/2022 Dashboards:
* Adjust the number of columns on a dashboard
* Use the same layout in both portrait and landscape orientations
* Dashboard will scale content on similarly sized screens
* On much larger or smaller screens you can scroll horizontally
* Automatic synchronization of dashboards with the server
* Text in labels now auto scales with widget size
* Change font color in labels

Other:
* More accurate search results
* Search devices and events by ref number 1.0.76 04/06/2022 Notification history
* View notifications that have been sent to the device from the server (*)

MyHS connection improvements
* Connecting to MyHS uses a direct route instead of a proxy, which may result in better app performance.
* Automatic retries for some failures.

Other minor visual improvements 1.0.74 12/29/2021 Minor improvements:

* Fix: Siri shortcuts stopped working
* Improved: Simplified the flow to submit feedback 1.0.70 11/28/2021 Support for Smart Tags (+)

* Now you can use Smart Tags with HSBuddy.
* Format new or existing tags so they can work with the app.
* Assign shortcuts to open a specific screen and/or perform an action.
* Create events in HS that trigger when a tag is tapped (++)

Notes:
(+) Requires a device with NFC support and iOS 11 (or higher)
(++) Requires latest version of the HSBuddy plug-in installed on your HS server 1.0.69 11/22/2021 == Favorite device lists ==
* You can now manage multiple favorite device lists.
* Quickly switch between lists by tapping on the list name at the top.
* You can save your favorite lists to your HomeSeer server.
* You can also choose to have them synchronized automatically.
* Any favorite list can be used as a shortcut or notification target. 1.0.66 10/31/2021 Minor improvements:
• Sometimes device images are stale when resuming app.
• Device widget actions cannot be bound to associated devices.
• Device status with HTML escape sequences are not rendered properly.
• Ability to set default orientation when opening camera in full screen mode. 1.0.65 05/30/2021 Minor bugs and fixes:
• Device icons are sometimes out of sync with value.
• Control sliders do not work for negative values. 1.0.64 05/10/2021 Minor bug fixes. 1.0.63 03/28/2021 Notification improvements:
• Add action buttons to remote push notifications. Choose an action for each button, like viewing or controlling devices, events, cameras or dashboards.
• Action buttons that control devices or events will run on the background. The actions will take place without switching you out of the app currently in display. Actions will also work from the lock screen. 1.0.62 03/22/2021 Notification improvements:
• Assign default actions to push notifications sent to HSBuddy from your HS server.
• Actions include showing a specific device, event, camera or dashboard to display when you tap on the Notification.
• Create silent notifications to perform the default action immediately if HSBuddy is already running
• Include camera snapshots with notifications
• Requires installing HSBuddy plugin version 3.23 or higher on your HS server 1.0.61 03/06/2021 24-hour Display:
• HSBuddy now uses your device settings to format timestamps in 12/24hr format.
Local camera access:
• HSBuddy is now capable of retrieving snapshot images directly from cameras that support it.
Always-on screen:
• HSBuddy can keep the device screen active on based on your preferences.
Dashboards:
• Image widgets now support an action to view image in full-screen mode
• Sections now support a background layer where you can add image widgets. 1.0.60 02/12/2021 Dashboard upgrades:
• Image widget: Display an image from your HS server
• Text widget: Display any arbitrary text
• Text format options: Change font size and text alignment for device, event and text widgets
• More flexible widget actions: Any widget can now target any device, event or camera as a tap or hold action
• New widget action to open another dashboard
• Dashboard backgrounds: Display an image from your HS server as a dashboard's background 1.0.57 02/03/2021