Firing events with iOS Shortcuts

bjvanst · January 15, 2020, 12:27am

Has anyone had any success creating iOS Shortcuts to Fire Events through the Home Assistant Companion app?

Every time I try to test it, I get an error that states “Could Not Run Fire Event”, “An unknown error occurred”.

I’m running HA v103.5 and my app is v2.0.0 (69) if that makes any difference.

bjvanst · January 15, 2020, 12:52am

An update to my own question… switching to call service provided more verbose errors regarding JSON objects. I was trying to fire an event with no data but apparently you need curly braces at a minimum.

olbjan · January 15, 2020, 1:32pm

I tried this and it works with my catch automation for ios actions:

The catch automation is here:

github.com

olbjan/home.olbrecht.net/blob/65399b5f96f5eb0384596c5bf942fc5beeb098e1/packages/ios.yaml#L87


  trigger:
  - event_data:
      actionName: DISABLE_ALARM
    event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
    platform: event
  action:
  - data:
      code: !secret alarm_code
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
    service: alarm_control_panel.alarm_disarm
- alias: 'iOS Widget: Arm Alarm'
  initial_state: 'true'
  trigger:
  - event_data:
      actionName: Arm Alarm
    event_type: ios.action_fired
    platform: event
  condition: []
  action:
  - data:
      code: !secret alarm_code

poldim · January 15, 2020, 3:42pm

Works for me. Dr Zzz has a video from back in the day about it

bjvanst · January 17, 2020, 12:05am

Thanks for testing it and posting an example, @olbjan.

While testing, I sent some test events with no data ( e.g. {} ). I wasn’t anticipating this but sending ios.action_fired with {} as the data triggered every automation set to listen for that event, even if I specified what actionName to look for.

So an action with {} triggered an automation looking for actionName: ‘a’ and actionName: ‘b’, but {“actionName”: “a”} won’t trigger the automation watching for actionName: ‘b’ and vice versa…

Weird.

olbjan · January 17, 2020, 5:39am

It just needs to be valid JSON, hence the need for squiggly brackets.

bjvanst · January 20, 2020, 3:39pm

Understood. All I was trying to say in my last comment was I observed that sending an ios.action_fired event with no actionName defined triggers all ios.action_fired automations, even if you’ve specified an actionName in the trigger.

That isn’t the behavior I would have expected.

ankit.mehta.me · September 17, 2022, 2:00am

Thanks, that was it.

jarojetu · December 20, 2023, 8:07am

Just wanna thanks this helps me as well in my HA journey