Can I use a parameter to specify which mobile device to notify?

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Hi everyone. I’m trying to write a script that takes a mobile device as a parameter and sends a notification message to it, but can’t seem to find a way to make it work. This thread indicates that it may not be possible until the notification system is overhauled, but as it’s asking a different question, perhaps there’s a way to do what I want.

Goal: I’d like to have a script that can send a message to any mobile device, which is passed as a parameter. (The reason for this is that I’d like to send Bluetooth LE command notifications such as ble_set_transmit_power to manage power on a variety of devices; the logic will do things like turn the transmitter on if it is currently stopped )

I can send a notification to a specific device, but if I try notify.notify and add the parameter as a target, it doesn’t like it and changes it to “[object Object]”: null. It would be helpful to know if there’s any clever way to get it to work. If not I’ll need to have an ugly set of Choose options (if target_device == “pixel_7a” then notify.mobile_app_pixel_7a etc).

Thanks in advance for suggestions, or confirmation that this just isn’t possible and I have to do it the hard way!

sequence:
  - action: notify.mobile_app_pixel_7a # This works fine but is specific to a single device
    metadata: {}
    data:
      message: Test
  - action: notify.notify
    metadata: {}
    data:
      target:
        {{target_device}} # When I save, this line gets changed to "[object Object]": null
      message: Test
alias: Test Parameterised Notification
description: ""
fields:
  target_device:
    selector:
      text: null
    name: Target Device
    description: The device to send a notification
    required: true
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Don’t have any experience of it but there are blueprints that does it.
Example: 📢 Notifications & Announcements

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That’s from the template missing quotes, but the notify.notify action will not work that way. As the docs have warned for years…

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Over the years, people in the community have shared lots of ways to address this issue.

Notify Groups
Notify Groups-based conditional Notifications

Blueprints:
Advanced Mobile Device Notifier

Custom integrations:
Universal Notifier
Supernotify

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Thanks for the correction and the confirmation.

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