Get app specific notifcations from android phone to HA instance

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Hi,
I’m looking to get app specific notifications from the phone as entity states in HA. For example, an on/off switch entity for a new message or missed phone call.
After some googling i found some old threads about doing this with tasker, is this still the preferable approach or are there any newer solutions for this?

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If you use the HA companion app, you can whitelist apps to allow their notifications to appear in the last_notification sensor then pipe those values wherever you want using trigger-based template sensors or automations.

Example 
template:
  - trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id:
          - sensor.phone_last_notification
        not_to:
          - unknown
    sensor:
      - name: "Discord Notifications"
        state: >-
          {% set current = this.state %}
          {% if trigger.to_state.attributes.package != "com.discord") %}
          {{ current | default('No Notifictions') }}
          {% else %}{{ trigger.to_state.state }}
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Thank you, this is probably a lot easier than doing it with tasker.