Adding iOS 16 “Live Activity” widget to Lock Screen

[okets]

Hello,
May I suggest adding support for the new iOS 16 feature of Live Activity widget?
This can be designed to be attached to a list of entities and will show their state or selected attribute.
In order to make it more useful, several layouts can be offered (big, medium, small, text only…)

This is a feature I have been waiting for a long time.
A lot of things that currently implemented in notifications can be replaced with this widget, like security updates, offline devices and many, many more!

please consider this feature. 🙏🏻

[Camatobe]

Can also think of some kind of status indication for running tasks.

Like:
Washing machine is on (show live activity card on Lockscreen and in dynamic Island when unlocked)
Display Name of Machine + State of washing_cycle_name and remaining time.

Or:
When switching a bool, show live activities and the location of wife and remaining km to home zone ^^

[zacwest]

Live Activity is pretty limited in a way that isn't obvious. First, it can't last indefinitely - there's a max time limit. It also can't live-update; it requires either the app running (without any additional permissions for long-life) or push notifications (crafted with the data to update it). The app also has to be open to start it. Not sure these limitations make sense for HA.

[okets]

@zacwest
I am familiar with the limitations of Live Activity.
Though it has to start when the app is running, the max-time limit is 8 hours.
a "Live Activity" is not a mini-app, it should be used to keep you connected to ongoing events.
there are so many scenarios that qualifies as a "Live Activity" in home assistant. once open, you can interact with the app for 8 hours through the lock screen, without opening the app!
I rely heavily on Actionable Notifications for background operations of ongoing events. a live activity widget could be a more elegant way of communicating with Home Assistant.

Since "Live Activity" is basically a widget, it might be a good idea to first write a more dated widget for home assistant, displaying it as a "live activity" later will be very easy.
my suggestion is to write a jinja-template configurable widget according to this layout:

each section will be bound to a template (or an entity state for the less technical users).
each section will have a "click action" that can be a URL or a service call.
displaying it on the lock screen as a live activity will be a bonus.

[timvdsm]

Instead of a "Live Activity" lockscreen widget ... why not just add some general configurable HA lockscreen widgets for IOS 16? For example: show a specific sensor status/climate temperature/garagedoor status/....

[S10XtremeNLow]

I would like live tile for monitoring 3d printing status - which is only needed when it’s actually printing

[k-janssens]

Not home assistant related, but Octopod for Octoprint already has a live activity for showing print progress (you will need this plugin for realtime updates) ... and you need Octoprint also obviously

[johntdyer]

The source for the client is open source https://github.com/gdombiak/OctoPod

[rwjack]

This would be amazing, no need to unlock and open the app, just control stuff from my lock screen..

[bgoncal]

I like the idea to bring customizable features to life and see how people would use it, and I think live activities is a good example, maybe not everybody has use cases but it would definitely be interesting to explore.
Anyone in this thread would like to adventure on a PR for this?

[nayzm]

+1. Would be nice to have a live activity for my Washer Dryer.

[user858753257]

That would be my main usecase too .

LG doesent offer this right now 😔

[mat1990dj]

Live activities are not intended to stay forever on the lock screen, they're only relevant during a period in time (washer running, navigation active,...)
I would definitely love to be able to display a live activity via an action