Besides a regular webapp and a Mac app, which uses the same endpoints as the webapp, Home Assistant also provides mobile apps. In this post, I want to describe its advantages over the former. I’ll use iOS to do this: Samsung’s French partner to recycle used mobiles tricked me once, and I moved away from Samsung. I decided to buy Apple for better integration since I’ve had Mac computers for the last few years. Installing and configuring The companion app is readily available