Calling a service from an Android shortcut

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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Hi all,

I’m trying to find a way to toggle a light from an Android shortcut. (Unfortunately, I cannot use a widget, as the place I want to use it supports only one widget: the Niagara launcher.)

The Android companion app only supports shortcuts to dashboards or entities, but that is too slow to quickly toggle the light.

I tried using Shortcut Maker to create a shortcut based on either a supported Intent, or the URL handler. Unfortunately, I could not find a related intent, and the URL handler is not supported on Android yet (according to the docs).

Does anyone know a way of accomplishing this?

– Joost

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It’s not possible to call an action from a shortcut as shortcuts are meant to be linked to an activity. Have you considered quick setting toggle? Or just another launcher?

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But would be so useful to make shortcut also meant to be linked to call an action. Why not? It would also help a lot inclusively in Tasker automations, other automations or with other launchers.