How to share IOS Fire trigger Actions between Companion APPs(wife,kids etc?)

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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Hello All

First of all thanks for the help and your help already fixed a lot of issues during my “development”.
Now i didn’t find any post to solve this issue.

Basically we have 6 accounts and each one have access to all devices etc…
in My IOS device i create in companion app 5 specific triggers with each one with is own automation, then automagically are created in automation table. Eveything works fine in my device.

When i enter in other devices with my account or other account, the actions created in device 1 are not shared. It means that if i have 5 actions created in DEVICE1, i need to create all again in my DEVICE2, then 5actions in my WIFE DEVICE3…

Automation list will have a lot of automations doing the same vs the number of devices with app.

Anyone knows how can i use the same “action/automation” in all the companion app devices?

Thanks for the help
JM

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Create the automations in Home Assistant instead.

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thanks tom.

The problem is if i created only in home assistant, the action will not appear in Compaction APP actions menu. Example… create a action in the app, then in home assistant i duplicated and give other name.

This new action will not appear in the actions/widget in the phone…

What i am doing is creating all the actions in the app companion and then i edited in the home assistant in yml editor to be more quick. The issue is the multiple automations created for the same.

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Create scripts in home assistant, you can then create a dashboard to run the scripts that anyone can use.

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I was wondering something similar, as I did not want to create a new Automation for every action.

I found a way to reduce the number of automations creating it only once, and keep a single trigger for all devices and users

On the first device Create your Action with a unique name, let’s call it “Alarm Off”, and then tap to create the automation.

Replace the part of the Event data from:
actionID: 1AB2345A-12345-1A1A-A111-A12DA6C40B87
to
actionName: Alarm Off

(or edit any current automation you created to achieve the same)

Now on any other device, simply create a new action for that device/user and make sure to name it with the same name. It will then fire that automation when used.

You still have to create the action, but at least the automation side is much simpler this way.