IOS Notifications with HA

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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Hi Guys ,

I am having problem not receiving a notification . I have a philio door sensor which i installed recently. When i try to make an automation for the value when it goes from 23 to 22 ( door opens) to get a notification on the HA APP . But this is not working : I can see the below in the automation.yaml file :

  • action:
    • data:
      message: ’ Door is Open’
      tittle: Door Status
      service: notify.ios_iphone
      alias: Door Status
      condition: []
      id: ‘1516718957369’
      trigger:
    • entity_id: sensor.philio_technology_corporation_pst02a_4_in_1_multisensor_access_control
      from: ‘23’
      platform: state
      to: ‘22’

configuration .yaml file has :slight_smile:

ios :

notify:

what am missing here ?

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At first glance your code looks ok; although it is a bit mangled due to the formatting so can’t be sure.
YAML is very sensitive to spaces, and that might be the issue here. When you post on the forum it’s better to create code blocks, either by using the button above the edit box (looks like this: </>), or by starting and ending the section with three times the character ` which you can find left of the 1 key on a regular keyboard.

but that’s all besides your actual question :slight_smile:

what the issue could be:

  • ios_iphone could be the wrong entity - check if you have a typo there

  • trigger itself is not working - try another action (e.g. turn on light) instead of the notification. if that doesn’t work either then the trigger is the issue

  • see if you can get notifications to work using a script; so that you at least know it works before putting it in an automation. I had a similar issue and created this script that I can just trigger from the front end:

script:
  message_test:
    sequence:
      - service: notify.ios_iphone_dennis_dk
        data: 
          message: "test message"

sorry that i can’t give you a direct solution, but I hope this gives you some pointers for your trial and error in finding a fix…

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Thank you for your advise. I will take that into consideration next time :slight_smile: . I have created the automation from the web interface , and have inserted the following in the data field in action

{
“message”: " Door Status",
“subtitle”: “Door is open”,
“target”: “023bf7ab-b46b-3ec0-83a6-c59533858e17”,
“tittle”: “Door Alarm”
}

tried both with and without target . I tried your script and thanks the notification works fine… I should test the trigger then . because the iphone id is right as it works in the below script

script:
message_test:
sequence:
- service: notify.ios_iphone
data:
message: “test message”

4

Got it to work . The subtittle field is not recognized in basic notification . That was my problem