Allow templating in in actionable notifications

Feature Requests
1

Hey guys,

It would be good to be able to use templates in actionable notifications, so that only one action is sent depending on the state of a device.

For example, I can create a notification with a message that sends me the state of a temperature sensor and the state of the heating switch. It would be good to only send the action that is relevant, so if the heating is currently on, send a “heating off” action and vice versa.

The message attribute supports templates, it would be good if the action and title also supported it.

I tried this for example:

data:
  actions:
    - action: "heating_{{states.switch.heating.state}}"
      title: "Heating {{states.switch.heating.state}}"
message: >-
  The temp is {{ states.sensor.living_room_temperature.state }} and the heating
  is {{ "on" if is_state("switch.heating", "on") else "off" }}

But this just sends the notification literally i.e heating_{{states.switch.heating.state}} appears in the button.

I tried also using {% if states… %} also which gives the same result.

Hope that makes sense!

2

Are you sure you can not use “data_template” for this?
I have not tested it in “actions” but it works in other parts of the notification config:

  action:
    - service: notify.mobile_app
      data_template:
        title: "{{ trigger.event.data.title }}"
        message: "{{ trigger.event.data.message }}"
3

According to my testing, the action parameter supports templating, but the title parameter does not. @Olen’s proposal is related to a simple message notify, where templating can obviously be used for title and message paramter.

Even if it’s an old discussion I would like to add my request to the same topic. Background: I would like to build a dynamic menu to control many switches in an irrigation system. The title is supposed to inform about the current state and offers toggling.

Therefore, I would be glad as well, if also the title parameter supports templating in actionable notifications.