Actionable notifications in Android app version 1.6.0

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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I’m having some issues on my S10 running One UI 2, I’m able to send the notification with a button, but when I select the button the notification just gets dismissed (notification shade minimizes) and the automation does not run.

This shows up fine:

  action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_ryans10
        data:
          title: "Vacuum Scheduled"
          message: "Vacuum starting in 30 mins"
          data:
            actions:
              - action: "dont_vacuum" # The key you are sending for the event
                title: "Don't vacuum today" # The button title

but nothing happens when I hit the button to try to run this:

- alias: Skip vacuum today
  trigger:
  - event_data:
      action: dontvacuum
    event_type: mobile_app_notification_action
    platform: event
  action:
    entity_id: automation.turn_off
    service: automation.vacuum_during_week_at_4pm

Any tips?

63

In the notification you use dont_vacuum and in the automation dontvacuum. Both must be the same.

64

indeed, clickaction doesnt load the correct tab
actionable notiftcatin is working though

65

after further testing seems that for me clickaction works only with full url

this works :
clickAction: 'https://xxx.ui.nabu.casa/lovelace/doorbell'
this doesnt work :
clickAction: '/lovelace/doorbell’

edit, i was wrong, it still opens in a browser

66

Thanks for testing, we have a bug opened for this now.

67

Has anyone looked at the return event which is sent when an action is clicked on the android notification?
As per documentation here (https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/actionable-notifications) it is supposed to have the following elements (please note that this is from the documentation)

{
    "event_type": "mobile_app_notification_action",
    "data": {
        "action": "KEY_ONE",
        "action_2_title": "Action 2",
        "action_3_title": "Action 3",
        "action_1_title": "Action 1",
        "action_1_key": "KEY_ONE",
        "action_2_key": "KEY_TWO",
        "action_3_key": "KEY_THREE"
    },
    "origin": "REMOTE",
    "time_fired": "2020-02-02T04:45:05.550251+00:00",
    "context": {
        "id": "abc123",
        "parent_id": null,
        "user_id": "123abc"
    }
}

when I capture the event in node-red… it only has the following (please note that this is my data and will be different to what is above)

{
"event_type":"mobile_app_notification_action",
"event":{
"action_2_key":"SNOOZE",
"action_2_title":"Snooze for 5 mins",
"action_3_key":"REMIND_AT_HOME",
"action_3_title":"Remind me at Home",
"sticky":"true",
"title":"Low Battery",
"message":"Charge your phone",
"action_1_title":"Remind Later",
"action_1_key":"REMIND_LATER",
"action":"SNOOZE"}
}

My questions:

  1. Compared to another video I saw, I noted that the “source” element is missing? Do we expect to see the source element returned?

  2. Also compared to the documentation the following elements are missing

"origin": "REMOTE",
    "time_fired": "2020-02-02T04:45:05.550251+00:00",
    "context": {
        "id": "abc123",
        "parent_id": null,
        "user_id": "123abc"
    }

Has anyone come across this issue?

68

Use the events tab in developer tools instead of node-red. When I listen to the event mobile_app_notification_action which is at the bottom of that page. I can then trigger the notification and click on an action and I see similar data as to what is documented.

{
    "event_type": "mobile_app_notification_action",
    "data": {
        "message": "test",
        "action_1_title": "test",
        "action_1_key": "action1",
        "action": "action1"
    },
    "origin": "REMOTE",
    "time_fired": "2020-05-05T14:01:06.626951+00:00",
    "context": {
        "id": "ID",
        "parent_id": null,
        "user_id": "USERID"
    }
}
69

Is it possible to call a service from an action with android? E.g.

title: "Alarm Not Set"
message: "You are not home and your alarm is off"
data:
  sticky: 'false'   
  color: 'red'   
  clickAction: 'https://xxx.ui.nabu.casa/'
  actions:
    - action: URI
      title: "Test"
      uri: 'https://www.google.com'
    - action: call-service
      title: "Arm"
      service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_arm
      data:
        entity_id: 
          - alarm_control_panel.alarm_com
70

Yes read all of this page https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/actionable-notifications

71

I did, several times. Unfortunately I couldn’t figure it out… Did not see any example like what I’m trying above.

72

You missed the part about the automation, keep scrolling down. You need 1 automatoin to send the notification with the actions and you need another automation to react to the event. Its a 2 parter.

73

Yeah, I read that. My original question was whether or not a service could be called directly from the notification bit. But I’ll take this dialogue as a no.

74

If it were possible it would be documented :slight_smile:

75

Are Categories Possible with Android?

76

Categories aka Notification Channels were added in the latest version of the Android app.

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77

Didn’t see it had been released, just tried it and it works very well. Many thanks to all involved!

78

this one is closed? but its not yet in the appstore, right?

79

Didn’t see a more recent thread, so I’m posting here.

Love the actionable notifs for Android. I have it working from NodeRed and they’re so useful.

Doesn’t look like a lot of the options work for Android though. Destructive and sticky don’t seem to do anything on my Android phone.

80

android does not support destructive double check that you are following the android examples, check the troubleshooting section in the docs if you are still stuck.

81

How can I “extract” the event action: “cat_yes” on node red? I made a node event:all for mobile_app_notification_action but don’t know who to go further and do something if YES and other if NO.