How do I open Home Assistant for Android using Home Assistant?

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I have a dashboard that I would like to open on my phone whenever I start charging wirelessly, so I am trying to use the command_activity notification to achive this. Here is what I have so far.

alias: James phone open dashboard
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - sensor.le2123_charger_type
    to: wireless
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_le2123
    data:
      message: command_activity
      data:
        intent_package_name: io.homeassistant.companion.android
        intent_action: android.intent.action.MAIN
        intent_category: android.intent.category.LAUNCHER
mode: single

Unfortunately, when I run this, the android device shows the following error in a toast notification.

Unable to send activity intent, please check command format

The provided example does work with this device.

What am I getting wrong here?

Thanks!

2

Just looking at the doc you linked the only thing is the speech marks around everything.

No idea if that is the issue or not.

3

Maybe this topic can help you:

You have to use open URL instead of an intent.

4

YAML does not require strings to be double quote encapsulated

https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#10113-generic-string

5

What is the open URL of the Home Assistant Android app?

6

You can try this (copied from the forum post I mentioned)

    action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
        data:
          title: "Motion Detected in Backyard"
          message: "Someone might be in the backyard."
          data:
            # iOS URL
            url: "/lovelace/cameras"
            # Android URL
            clickAction: "/lovelace/cameras"
7

In case you still finding a solution, here is my functional code for open specific lovelace view based on service call.
Based on this I am able to popup remote control (lovelace view) to control my TV on mobile by voice assist (additional automation).

all is based on documentation here
https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/integrations/url-handler/

service: >-
  notify.mobile_app_{{state_attr(state_attr('person.tom',
  'source'),'friendly_name')}}
data:
 message: "command_activity"
 data:
  intent_package_name: "io.homeassistant.companion.android"
  intent_action: "android.intent.action.VIEW"
  intent_uri: "homeassistant://navigate/lovelace/android-tv-remote"
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