Action Automation does not trigger

[lethuer]

Hi !
In the Homeassistant iPhone app I created an action just like shown here:
https://youtu.be/7t22v6Wh6HM?si=lNgnSeoLuH1B8S8T#t=0m40s

Settings → Companion-App → Action → Add

Afterwards I created this automation like described shown here:
https://youtu.be/7t22v6Wh6HM?si=lNgnSeoLuH1B8S8T#t=1m36s

This also described in the documentation: https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/actions/

alias: GarageDoor
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: ios.action_fired
    event_data:
      actionName: GarageDoor
    enabled: true
condition: []
action:
  - service: light.toggle
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: light.stehlampe
mode: single

The issue I have is that the automation never is fired.
Does anybody know why ?

[daletbet]

Hi I had the same issue, I fixed by using the actionID instead of the actionName… who knows why but now it works:)

[lethuer]

Thanks for the note !
But how to get the actionID ?

This also didn’t worked for me:

platform: event
event_type: ios.action_fired
event_data:
  actionID: GarageDoor
enabled: true

Created scene has the name „GarageDoor“…

[lethuer]

Okay now I‘ve found the issue…
I don‘t know why but previously a scene action was created !!!
Now I tried again and it looks like this:

So it is important that the created scene isn‘t a scene action…

Now this automation works as expected:

platform: event
event_type: ios.action_fired
event_data:
  actionName: GarageDoorAction
enabled: true

The downside now is that I‘ve to create an action on all my mobile devices because they are not synchronised…?!
But there is a notice that actions could also be created in configuration.yaml to get synchronised actions.

[piwy84]

thanks for the tip for deselecting the ‘scenes’ this seems to improve for me