Automation that creates an alarm on my android phone

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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Im pretty new with home assistant and i would like to know if it is possible to set an alarm with home assistant.
So basically my time schedule can change everyday and i also have setup a sensor for that. Now the sensor triggeres a automation based on what time i have to be at work and uses a specified time to run the automation. For example if the sensor detects that my work starts at 7:55 then the automation will automatically trigger at 6:30. Or if my work starts at 9:30 my automation will automatically be triggered at 8:00. This works completly fine.
Now i want to be able to create a Alarm on my Android Phone which will just be like 2 minutes ahead of time.
So when my automation triggeres at 6:30 then as the action ha will create an alarm on my phone that goes of 2 minutes after. So It should run at round about 6:32 then.

Is it possible to create an alarm on my android phone within a automation?

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Yes but you will need the Home Assistant Companion App installed on your phone where you want the alarm set.

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What do i need to change specifically for my use case?
I get an error message if i try to use the code you linked.

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Have you looked at Pushover?

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remove the last 2 lines

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If i trigger it it sends a notification to my phone but wont do anything. If i look in my Clock ab, there is no alarm created.

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sorry , looks like you are following a forum post that used old parameters. I have updated my post now to reflect the current state.

also in the future make sure to reference the docs to ensure the post is up to date: Notification Commands | Home Assistant Companion Docs

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But what exactly do i have to do?
I dont really know how it works

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Update the code to the latest changes in the post you copied and try again

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I looked into it but i just cant understand what needs to be changed :cry:

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your entire service call needs to change. Your screenshot from your comment up above

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do you see the differences?

no longer matches the post you referenced, you need to update it.

For reference let me paste the new updated post again.

service: notify.mobile_app_pixel_5
data:
  message: command_activity
  data:
    intent_package_name: "com.google.android.deskclock"
    intent_extras: "android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:8,android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:30"
    intent_action: "android.intent.action.SET_ALARM"
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yes i see it now.
But now i get an error message on my android phone (s10) saying
" aktivitäten format kann nicht gesendet werden, bitte befehlsformat überprüfen".
As im german i translated it:
“activity format cannot be sent, please check command format”

I already gave Home assistant every possible entitlement. And by reading the error message it looks like somethings still wrong with the code:

service: notify.mobile_app_s10_brandon
data:
  message: command_activity
  data:
    intent_package_name: "com.google.android.deskclock"
    intent_extras: "android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:8,android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:30"
    intent_action: "android.intent.action.SET_ALARM"
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do you have the Google clock app installed becaues teh example use that package name :wink:

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Oh yeah i didnt know that now it works!
But how do i make it that the alarm will be set like only 1 minute away so that wenn my automation triggers the alarm will basically go off directly.
Right now it only sets the time on 8:30

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Could you find a solution?

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This is how i did that.

First i set a variable for the hour and minute that i want to set the alarm named “hour1” and “min1”
as i want to set the alarm for one minute from now,
hour1= current hour ,“now().hour”
min1= current min +1 “now().minute+1”
then these are added to the extras as variables instead of a single number.

Obviously, this will fail if the script is triggered at, for example “08:59” because it will set the alarm for 08:60 which is not a real time.

Otherwise, this works great

alias: "Set next alarm "
sequence:
  - variables:
      hour1: "{{now().hour|int}}"
      min1: "{{now().minute+1|int}}"
    alias: Set time
  - service: notify. Mobile_PHONE_NAME
    data:
      message: command_activity
      data:
        intent_package_name: com.google.android.deskclock
        intent_action: android.intent.action.SET_ALARM
        intent_extras: >-
          android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:{{hour1|int}},android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:{{min1|int}},android.intent.extra.alarm.MESSAGE:Home
          Assistant Alarm,android.intent.extra.alarm.SKIP_UI:true
mode: single
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