Get mobile_app id from mobile_app.share

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
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Hello all!

I am working on an automation where the user of the mobile app (on Android) shares (for instance) a youtube link to the HomeAssistant app. Home Assistant triggers an automation based on mobile_app.share event. The automation should send back a notification only to the client which sent the share event (I have several clients), giving them a list of players where to play the URL being sent.

My problem is - how do I find out which mobile_app instance I need to send the notification to, based on the event data?

Here’s a sample event that I can see in Developer Tools → Events:

event_type: mobile_app.share
data:
  caller: android-app://org.polymorphicshade.tubular
  subject: Can Curiosity Heal Division? | Scott Shigeoka | TED
  url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1MYWOFgJo
  device_id: a7cfbe1b0133ba3f
origin: REMOTE
time_fired: "2024-12-07T08:25:19.129804+00:00"
context:
  id: 01JEG3J8GS4SQB9ZDG4SRREHRW
  parent_id: null
  user_id: 1f269cc5e671416fb656d4f9e3ad1b0c

I can extract the url, for instance with:

variables:
  url: "{{ trigger.event.data.url }}"

How can I get from device_id, context id or user_id a reference to notify.mobile_app_my_phone_name?
I have one device per user, so even if I have the user id mapped to the user, I could have some manual mapping.

Are there any guides on handling this? Thanks!

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variables:
  url: "{{ trigger.event.data.url }}"
  user_id: "{{ trigger.context.user_id }}"
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Thanks, but getting the user id is not the problem. The problem is getting the mobile app reference to know where to send the notification.

For now, having just a few users I think I can build some ifs and trigger the notification custom for each user id… But it would be nice to have a programmatic way of doing it…

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There is no correlation between user id and the name of the phone if that is what you are looking for.
If you don’t wat to use if statements then I suggest a key value pair just like in the example of template editor.

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Thanks for the clarification! I managed to get it working with a bunch of ifs. I’ll post the whole solution in a few days, after I iron out some small issues.