I see there’s a thread from December 2019 saying that the companion Android app can send notifications, but I can’t find how to actually do that from within Nodered. There’s no node that contains my phone’s name, and the ‘notify’ node seems to be only for the browser. Is there a way to do this?
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You need to call a service for that, like so:
This shows a notification on my tv, but it’s the same for the mobile app.
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Generally you do it the same way in Node red as in HA.
In HA you use call service as described here Introduction | Home Assistant Companion Docs (home-assistant.io)
In Node red you use the Call service node.
The data from the yaml needs to be converted to json in the call service node.
Example:
this yaml
automation:
- alias: "Notify of Motion color"
trigger:
...
action:
- service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
data:
title: "Motion Detected in Backyard"
message: "Someone might be in the backyard."
data:
color: "#2DF56D" # or "red"
The “data” meaning:
data:
title: "Motion Detected in Backyard"
message: "Someone might be in the backyard."
data:
color: "#2DF56D" # or "red"
Needs to be placed in the json field as
{
"data": {
"title": "Motion Detected in Backyard",
"message": "Someone might be in the backyard.",
"data": {
"color": "#2DF56D" // or "red"
}
}
}
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For anyone coming across this in 2023, the above json didn’t work for me. I had to remove the outer “data”.
{
"title": "Motion Detected in Backyard",
"message": "Someone might be in the backyard.",
"data": {
"color": "#2DF56D" // or "red"
}
}
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How do you include channels in this?
Edit: I got it, for anybody else wondering how to utilize channels in this logic. Once the first notification is sent, the new channel will be avail in the companion app for further changes for sounds.
{“title”:“Light Unavailable”,“message”:“{{topic}}”,“data”:{“color”:“red”,“channel”:“Alarm”,“priority”:“high”,“ttl”:0}}
{
“title”: “Light Unavailable”,
“message”: “{{topic}}”,
“data”: {
“color”: “red”,
“channel”: “Alarm”,
“priority”: “high”,
“ttl”: 0
}
}
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Hi,
I wrote an a node red automation to notify me if new updates are available.
Notification is send to Home Assistant and also to your mobile device (for me iOS Companion app).
And it works with all update entities 
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