When using iOS actions (eg for CarPlay, Apple Watch, widgets…), no actual HA status is visible in the action itself. To overcome this, it might often be desired to have an action which will trigger a notification (or even an ‘actionable notification’) to be returned immediately. Such actionalable notifications can have many more actions and may include information on the actual status of your home.
With the new carplay support, you’ll notice HA notifications are only shown in the car if these are pushed as critical. Yet, when the same action would be launched from another source (eg Apple Watch) it might probably not be desired to get the notification as a critical (making a lot of noise).
So to make sure the notification is send as a critical one when the iOS action is launched from car (triggerSource carPlay), while still sending it as a standard (actionable) notification when send from Apple Watch, below little example can be used.
This makes the iOS actions very powerfull (especially for Apple Watch, see also these action tricks for Apple Watch). In the car the actions of the actionable notification can not be used, yet, critical notifications will be visible and the message can be read aloud by Siri.
ios action:
ios:
actions:
- name: AlarmStatus
background_color: "#000000"
label:
text: "Alarm status info and actions"
color: "#ff0000"
icon:
icon: alarm_light
color: "#ffffff"
automation:
alias: Alarm status iOS event action
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: ios.action_fired
event_data:
actionName: AlarmStatus
- platform: event
event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
event_data:
actionName: AlarmStatus
condition: []
action:
- variables:
critical_desired: >-
{% if states('sensor.iphone_activity') == 'Automotive' or
(trigger is defined and trigger.event is defined and
trigger.event.data.triggerSource == 'carPlay') %}1{% else %}0{% endif %}
- service: notify.iphone_notification_group
continue_on_error: true
data:
title: Alarm status
message: >-
{{now().strftime("%H:%M:%S %d/%m/%Y")}}
Alarm status: {{states('alarm_control_panel.home_alarm')}}
data:
push:
sound:
name: default
critical: "{{critical_desired}}" #1 for cticial, 0 for non critical
entity_id: camera.doorbell
attachment: #show image as attachment
content-type: jpeg
url: /lovelace-alarm/alarm
group: alert #combine notifications together visually
tag: alarm #replace previous alarm notification
actions:
- action: AlarmBlock
title: Temporary block the alarm
activationMode: background
authenticationRequired: true
destructive: false
behavior: default
- action: AlarmSirene
title: "Sirenes en light ALARM"
activationMode: background
authenticationRequired: true
destructive: true
behavior: default