Emojis in iOS notifications

oakbrad · September 6, 2017, 5:27am

Is anyone using emojis in notifications? Would be quite useful for making auto-generated notifications more readable but I cannot figure out what formatting to use.

kirichkov · September 6, 2017, 6:58am

Given that emojis are simply utf characters you’d have to input their utf character code. Have you tried simply copy-pasting them? Even if they do not appear as emojis in your text editor, give it a try nonetheless.

rabittn · September 6, 2017, 2:50pm

does this work?

kirichkov · September 7, 2017, 7:06am

I did a quick test and added an emoji using the UI to a script that sends telegram notifications - it worked and the resulting yaml looks like this \U0001F44D.

oakbrad · September 14, 2017, 11:57pm

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong here

notify_event_leaveby_drive:
  alias: Event Leave By Driving Notification
  sequence:
    - service: notify.ios_phone
      data:
        title: "{{states.sensor.cal_fb_time.state}} @ {{states.sensor.cal_fb_location.state}}"
        message: >
            {{states.sensor.cal_fb_event.state}}
            
            {{states.sensor.cal_fb_url.state}}

            \U1F699 Leave Now
            {{states.sensor.driving_to_next_event.attributes.duration}}

It just comes through as \U1F699 and I tried \U0001F699 as well

derrick1985 · September 20, 2017, 11:45pm

Try putting in in " and in ’ and see if that changes anything.

oakbrad · September 21, 2017, 3:29am

I tried with ’ and ", and also with and without the leading 000, and no luck.

rabittn · September 21, 2017, 11:24am

Looks like using the java esaped stings work. Which might be UTF-16?

{
  "message": "\ud83d\ude02 "
}

oakbrad · September 22, 2017, 1:40am

Thank you! That did it.

I found this for converting the UTF-8 codes to UTF-16

rabittn · September 22, 2017, 12:30pm

I have been trying all morning to find a compiled list of all emojis in UTF-16 But I am unable to.

patfelst · November 10, 2017, 10:42pm

I’m trying to get this to work also. Here is the code, I just get the literal text, no emoji. What am I doing wrong?

- alias: Test iOS notifications
  initial_state: 'off'
  trigger:
  action:
    - service: notify.ios_patricks_iphone_6s
      data_template:
        message: >
          This is a test notification { "\ud83d\ude02" }
        title: 'Test notification'

patfelst · November 10, 2017, 10:48pm

Doh, I just figured it out, here is the working code line

           This is a test notification {{ "\ud83d\ude02" }}

anon32843920 · August 11, 2018, 4:49pm

This is how I did:

Find an emoji that you like here: https://apps.timwhitlock.info/emoji/tables/unicode
Click on the link looking like this: U+1F3C1 (on the same row as the emoji icon).
The code under “Surrogates” is the one you need: D83C DFC1
Insert into your notification message like this: {{ “\uD83C\uDFC1” }}

valexi · November 23, 2019, 3:40pm

Hi,

I have a problem with car preheating power cord check. I would like to use emojis.
This is my code:

- alias: Check if heater power cord is plugged
  trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    hours: /1
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.preheatswitch
    state: 'on'
  - condition: state
    entity_id: input_boolean.loosepowercordnotified
    state: 'off'
  - condition: or
    conditions:
    - condition: template
      value_template: '{{((now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[0] |int * 60) + now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[1]
        |int) < ((states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[0] |int * 60) +
        states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[1] |int)}}'
    - condition: template
      value_template: '{{((now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[0] |int * 60) + now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[1]
        |int) > ((states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[0] |int * 60)
        + states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[1] |int + 60)}}'
  - condition: or
    conditions:
    - condition: template
      value_template: '{{(((now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[0] |int * 60) + now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[1]
        |int) > ((states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[0] |int * 60) +
        states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[1] |int)) and (now().hour
        <= 22) and (now().hour >= 18)}}'
    - condition: template
      value_template: '{{(((now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[0] |int * 60) + now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[1]
        |int) < ((states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[0] |int * 60) +
        states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[1] |int)) and (now().hour
        > 8) and (now().hour <= 22)}}'
  action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.telldus_tzwp102_plugin_switch_switch
  - delay: 00:00:30
  - service: notify.home_assistant_notifications
    data_template:
      message: '{% if states("sensor.telldus_tzwp102_plugin_switch_power")|float
        < 10 %}

        Embark time: {{states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[0]}}:{{states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[1]}},
        preheat will start at {{states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state}}

        {% if ((now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[0] |int * 60) + now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[1]
        |int) > ((states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[0] |int * 60) +
        states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[1] |int) %}Tomorrow it''s
        {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[1].condition}} and {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[1].temperature}}°C

        {% else %}Today it''s {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[0].condition}}
        and {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[0].temperature}}°C

        {% endif %}

        '\uD83D\uDD0C Power cord is not plugged! \uD83D\uDE14'

        {% else %}

        Embark time: {{states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[0]}}:{{states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[1]}},
        preheat will start at {{states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state}}

        {% if ((now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[0] |int * 60) + now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[1]
        |int) > ((states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[0] |int * 60) +
        states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[1] |int) %}Tomorrow it''s
        {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[1].condition}} and {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[1].temperature}}°C

        {% else %}Today it''s {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[0].condition}}
        and {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[0].temperature}}°C

        {% endif %}

        '\uD83D\uDD0C Power cord is plugged! \u26A1'

        {% endif %}

        '

It won’t give me emojis. It just shows the text as is. Can anyone tell me how to send notification with emoji in data_template. I can send emoji in services menu like this:

{
"message": '\uD83D\uDE0D '
}

valexi · November 25, 2019, 9:43am

Nevermind. I got it to work!

I just leave it here:

  action:
  - service: switch.turn_on
    entity_id: switch.telldus_tzwp102_plugin_switch_switch
  - delay: 00:00:30
  - service: notify.home_assistant_notifications
    data_template:
      message: >
        {% if states("sensor.telldus_tzwp102_plugin_switch_power")|float
        < 10 %}
        Embark time: {{states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[0]}}:{{states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[1]}},
        preheat will start at {{states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state}}
        {% if ((now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[0] |int * 60) + now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[1]
        |int) > ((states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[0] |int * 60) +
        states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[1] |int) %}Tomorrow it''s
        {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[1].condition}} and {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[1].temperature}}°C
        {% else %}
        
        Today it''s {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[0].condition}}
        and {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[0].temperature}}°C
        {% endif %}
        
        
        {{ "\uD83D\uDD0C Power cord is not plugged! \uD83D\uDE14" }}
        {% else %}
        Embark time: {{states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[0]}}:{{states.input_datetime.embarktime.state.split(":")[1]}},
        preheat will start at {{states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state}}
        {% if ((now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[0] |int * 60) + now().strftime("%H:%M").split(":")[1]
        |int) > ((states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[0] |int * 60) +
        states.sensor.preheatstarttime.state.split(":")[1] |int) %}
        
        Tomorrow it''s
        {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[1].condition}} and {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[1].temperature}}°C
        {% else %}Today it''s {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[0].condition}}
        and {{(states.weather.dark_sky.attributes.forecast)[0].temperature}}°C
        {% endif %}
        
        
        {{ "\uD83D\uDD0C Power cord is plugged! \u26A1" }}
        {% endif %}
      title: "Preheat timer"

megakid · July 11, 2022, 6:08pm

Anyone found this stopped working with 2022.7? More likely the associated upgrade to python 3.10?

str is not valid UTF-8: surrogates not allowed

reesion · July 12, 2022, 7:27am

This is affecting me as well, after updating to 2022.7.

I have rolled back since. Wondering if anyone found a fix or workaround?

Mariusthvdb · July 12, 2022, 7:30am

did you file an issue in the core repo? if not, you should probably, as the dev team is ironing out some of these python update issues. (ofc, if thats whats going on here)

reesion · July 12, 2022, 9:10am

I have just raised a ticket issue on the core repo. Feel free to contribute

github.com/home-assistant/core

Emojis in iOS notifications stopped working in 2022.7

opened 09:08AM - 12 Jul 22 UTC

reesion

### The problem iOS notifications with emoji/surrogate codes not working after …2022.7 update ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? 2022.7.3 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? 2022.6.7 ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Supervised ### Integration causing the issue iOS ### Link to integration documentation on our website _No response_ ### Diagnostics information _No response_ ### Example YAML snippet _No response_ ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? _No response_ ### Additional information _No response_

Cassy0119 · September 6, 2022, 2:04am

Has it already been fixed?