Intent to visit URL?

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Android
#1

Using notify.mobile_app I managed to get this working:

message: "Waze"
title: "Drive home"
data:
  actions:
    - action: "URI"
      title: "Open Waze"
      uri: "https://waze.com/ul?favorite=home&navigate=yes"

Which gives me a actionable button to click to go home.
Now I’m thinking perhaps this can be done even better?

If I trigger on screen interactive, time, position and connected with bluetooth to my bluetooth receiver in the car then I know I’m about to go home from work (and drive to work in the morning).
So can I broadcast this as an intent for chrome to visit the URL?

I tried:

message: "command_broadcast_intent"
title: "https://waze.com/ul?favorite=home&navigate=yes"
data:
  channel: "com.android.chrome"

But it did not work.
Is there some way to launch Waze without clicking a button? (that didn’t sound lazy did it?)

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#2

try looking at logcat to see whats going on, thats really the only way to troubleshoot intents

Also you want to do command_activity for something like this

Examples from Google: https://developer.android.com/guide/components/intents-common#ViewUrl

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#3

That did it! Thank you!

In case anyone else wants this, this is what worked:

message: "command_activity"
title: "https://waze.com/ul?favorite=home&navigate=yes"
data:
  channel: "com.waze"
  tag: "android.intent.action.VIEW"

That opens Waze with navigation home

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Android Intents - Sending & Receiving List (Starting Activities too!)
#4

did you base that off this? https://developers.google.com/waze/deeplinks

#5

I found the way from somewhere else. But that page has some good info.
I did not find that when I was googling.

#6

Here is the automation to go to work, and it worked perfectly.

alias: Waze to work
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: template
    value_template: >-
      {{ "7D:76:93:CE:2D:FF" in
      states.sensor.andreas_bluetooth_connection.attributes.connected_paired_devices
      }} 
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.andreas_interactive
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: time
    after: '05:00:00'
    before: '07:30:00'
    weekday:
      - mon
      - tue
      - wed
      - thu
      - fri
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.andreas_interactive
    state: 'on'
  - condition: template
    value_template: >-
      {{ "7D:76:93:CE:2D:FF" in
      states.sensor.andreas_bluetooth_connection.attributes.connected_paired_devices
      }} 
  - condition: state
    entity_id: person.andreash
    state: home
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_andreas
    data:
      message: command_activity
      title: 'https://waze.com/ul?favorite=work&navigate=yes'
      data:
        channel: com.waze
        tag: android.intent.action.VIEW
mode: single

and this is going home, but it’s still untested.
(I have set the time condition to just after I expect to the latest arrive at work since I have small kids that could need to be picked up from preschool)

alias: Waze to home
description: ''
trigger:
  - platform: template
    value_template: >-
      {{ "7D:76:93:CE:2D:FF" in
      states.sensor.andreas_bluetooth_connection.attributes.connected_paired_devices
      }} 
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.andreas_interactive
    to: 'on'
condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.andreas_interactive
    state: 'on'
  - condition: template
    value_template: >-
      {{ "7D:76:93:CE:2D:FF" in
      states.sensor.andreas_bluetooth_connection.attributes.connected_paired_devices
      }} 
  - condition: state
    entity_id: person.andreash
    state: Arbete
  - condition: time
    after: '09:00:00'
    before: '16:30:00'
    weekday:
      - mon
      - tue
      - wed
      - thu
      - fri
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_andreas
    data:
      message: command_activity
      title: 'https://waze.com/ul?favorite=home&navigate=yes'
      data:
        channel: com.waze
        tag: android.intent.action.VIEW
mode: single
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