- 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

Minor UX fixes

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

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

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

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

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

* 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

• 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

• 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

Minor fix: Unable to control devices with text box input from Quick Actions

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

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

Minor improvements: * Fix: Siri shortcuts stopped working * Improved: Simplified the flow to submit feedback

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

== 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.

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.

Minor bugs and fixes: • Device icons are sometimes out of sync with value. • Control sliders do not work for negative values.

Minor bug fixes.

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.

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

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.

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

• New: (Geolocation) Significant changes only ◦ New option to send location updates to the server only on significant location changes ◦ This option will provide significant power savings at the expense of possible delays in location reporting • Other: Minor visual updates and fixes

Fix: Enter camera view from dashboard widget stopped working with the latest update