HA Button not showing HA sidebar

[FelixUnger]

What version of Music Assistant has the issue?

2.7.6

How is the MA server installed?

Home Assistant OS Addon

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The problem

I am using MA inside Home Assistant. When I enter MA the HA sidebar disappears (I think a new feature of the latest MA version). The documentation says to press the HA button inside MA to get the HA sidebar to reappear. Pushing the HA button in MA DOES bring up the HA sidebar on my iPhone in the HA Companion app. Doing the same in the HA Companion app on my iPad does NOT bring up the HA sidebar. Doing the same on a web-browser (Chrome on Windows, nor Chrome on iOS) does NOT open the HA sidebar.

I hope I have not missed a configuration step but I had installed MA some months ago before the latest version automatically hid the HA sidebar.

If course the issue is I cannot get back to my HA dashboards (in the companion app on the iPad).

How to reproduce

See above. HA button in MA never brings up the HA sidebar.

Music Providers

Not related to Music Providers. MA itself works well and plays music well in my HA/Sonos system.

Player Providers

Not related to Player Providers. MA itself works well and plays music well in my HA/Sonos system.

Full log output

There are no log entries for this issue.

Additional information

None available.

What version of Home Assistant Core (if used) are your running

2026.2.0

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

On what type of hardware are you running?

Raspberry Pi

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[jojoferari]

I have the same issue. Running on HA Green.

[cbonsig]

Same issue here, in landscape orientation. HA Green hardware. iPad Home Assistant app. Workaround: when the iPad is rotated from landscape to portrait orientation the HA button action raises the sidebar as expected; the sidebar persists when activated in portrait and the device is rotated to landscape. After clearing the sidebar and rotating back to landscape, the HA button action has no effect.

Installation method: Home Assistant OS
Core: 2026.2.1
Supervisor: 2026.01.1
Operating System: 17.0
Frontend: 20260128.6

iPad Air (5th generation)
iPadOS 26.2

[edit 9-Feb 15:10 GMT. additional description and version details]

[karnivour]

Same problem, MA starts in Fullscreenmode and I cant exit nor access the sidebar. Stopping the music assistant server helps to bring back HA. The HA button on the bottom has no effect at all.

[OzGav]

Thanks. We don’t any more +1s

[jevansuk]

Same issue here.
Issue started after upgrade to Home Office OS 2026.2.0

[OzGav]

@jevansuk did you read my post immediately above yours 🤦

[MarvinSchenkel]

Can you try clearing browser cache to see if that resolves the issue? Might be an issue where the old frontend is cached that does not have this feature