Mobile app update breaking changes?

finity · August 29, 2022, 12:24pm

That’s a really good idea.

I didn’t even realize that sensor existed.

Thanks for the solution.

Beer17HWAM · August 29, 2022, 2:41pm

I can’t find a working automation example script. Who can put a working HA automation script in this post to only send a TTS text notification to an android phone?

Beer17HWAM · August 29, 2022, 2:46pm

In my eyes it’s ridiculous to change this TTS behavior just with an Home assistant app update. It’s quite normal to updates phone apps. Now all my TTS Command won’t work. My complete alarm system is working with command from out of node-red. I’m on vacation and I can’t even repair it now. Downgrading my app is also not an option because I tuned a lot of notification channels on the phone which a gone after downgrading. I think is really a bad action, just change TTS thing and not keeping it downwards compatible. I am mad about this.

Beer17HWAM · August 29, 2022, 2:52pm

I cannot find a Home assistant automation TTS script. Just to send a TTS to a smartphone. Please put a yaml example for HA in this post.

calisro · August 29, 2022, 2:56pm

I think this portion of the docs is what you need?

automation:
  - alias: "Notify of Motion TTS alarm"
    trigger:
      ...
    action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
        data:
          message: TTS
          data:
            tts_text: "Motion has been detected"
            media_stream: "alarm_stream"

Hellis81 · August 29, 2022, 3:15pm

Come on…
Just open the docs and search.

Beer17HWAM · August 29, 2022, 3:30pm

Thank you. I got it working from HA now. Now I need to change all my node-red flows.

Koal4 · August 30, 2022, 6:13am

That’s nice.
But they should make it default and show a changelog. Afterall their motto is to simplify things for new/not advanced users, right?

Anyway for now I will use this.

Hellis81 · August 30, 2022, 6:24am

Koal4 · August 30, 2022, 6:41am

???

I meant in Home Assistant. My suggestion was give a notification when there is companion update in Home Assistant as well along with the changelog (i know it shows in the companion app). But would like to see it in home assistant as well. Reading from the desktop (where I mainly use home assistant) is much better then a cropped version from the phone

HasQT · August 30, 2022, 9:03am

I saw the changelog title, just as I hit the screen and vanquished the changelog…
I wasn’t really concentrating at the time and didn’t realise it was a changelog for the app.

So I would be supportive of a general notification to home assistant to say the app has updated.

TheHolyRoger · August 30, 2022, 10:27am

Yeah would definitely be nice to streamline this process.

My workflow was:

Woken up last night by a very loud tts message from my phone: “please set a title for text to speech…”

Google that phrase having no idea what’s just happened or why my phone is shouting at me.

Thankfully find this thread and all the helpful responses here.

Refactor 20+ automations and scripts for the new syntax.

Inwardly moan whilst I read the other comments on this thread.

Test.

Feel better.

I think the workflow could definitely be optimised

Hellis81 · August 30, 2022, 12:07pm

Given there has been so much problems with the update and release notes I made a Node red sequence that will send you a notification with the breaking changes when the app updates.

- but I don't have Node red, it's just unnecessary overhead and my CPU and....

Too bad. This is for Node red, if you want to make something similar in HA then go ahead.
The reason I did this in Node red is because it’s easier to get data from dynamic sources, but it’s probably doable in HA.

This is a quick and dirty solution, it will look at the first three pages of releases and find the version you have, extract the breaking changes and send them to your phone as a notification.
You could easily just copy paste then nodes to make it look at more pages if you want.

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Hellis81 · August 30, 2022, 3:14pm

And if you want to scan for breaking changes before you update you can use this sequence:

I didn’t know there was a latest URL but that made it very easy. Easy enough that it’s probably very much doable in HA.

Anyways this looks at the latest page, and if it’s a new version then it sends you release name and breaking changes.
The first time you run it then it will message you of the current version. But from then on it should only give you latest version.

Just set the inject node to run at an appropriate interval.

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TensE · September 1, 2022, 4:49pm

Just found this thread after my Sleep automation kept failing.
For anyone else who doesn’t want to scroll through here’s the breakdown

Breaking Change: Switch notification command parameters

The biggest change is going to be that title will no longer be used for any command including TTS, this means all additional command data will need to be in the data element underneath message. In most cases title was switched to command.

Broadcast Intent

change channel to intent_package_name
change title to intent_action
change group to intent_extras

Volume Level

change title to command
change channel to media_stream

Media

change title to media_command
change channel to media_package_name

Activity

change channel to intent_package_name
change tag to intent_action
change title to intent_uri
change subject to intent_type
change group to intent_extras

So in NodeRED I had to change my service call from:

{
    "message": "command_broadcast_intent",
    "title": "com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.START_SLEEP_TRACK",
    "data": {
        "channel": "com.urbandroid.sleep"
    }
}

To:

{
    "message": "command_broadcast_intent",
    "data": {
        "intent_package_name": "com.urbandroid.sleep",
        "intent_action": "com.urbandroid.sleep.alarmclock.START_SLEEP_TRACK"
    }
}

vaderag · September 14, 2022, 2:31pm

So, funny story… I didn’t have anything break from this change, but I am now trying to set up my first Text to Speech notification…

I also use NodeRED and am trying to get TTS to work…
I get speech but it always says “Please set a title for text to speech to process”

I’ve looked through all the docs, and this thread to find anything that might work and have been used as “title” but nothing is working

Has anyone managed to get TTS on Android to work with NodeRed since this update? If so can they please share the code?

Thanks!

{"message": "TTS", "data": {

    message: TTS,

    media_command: "The house is on Fire and the cat is stuck in the dryer!",

    intent_type: "The house is on Fire and the cat is stuck in the dryer!",

    command: "The house is on Fire and the cat is stuck in the dryer!",

    intent_action: "The house is on Fire and the cat is stuck in the dryer!",

    intent_uri: "The house is on Fire and the cat is stuck in the dryer!",

    tts_text: "The house is on Fire and the cat is stuck in the dryer!",

    ttl: 0,

    priority: high,

    media_stream: alarm_stream_max

    }

}

dshokouhi · September 14, 2022, 2:35pm

always good to check the docs for the updated format

https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notifications-basic/#text-to-speech-notifications

vaderag · September 14, 2022, 2:55pm

I’m using the updated format and copying directly from the docs…
You can’t put message under data as you get an error…

"Call-service error. required key not provided @ data['message']"

If I put it in both it still doesn’t work

I’ve literally tried every combination that I can

Hellis81 · September 14, 2022, 3:01pm

{
  "message": "TTS",
  "data":{
    "tts_text": "Motion has been detected"
  }
}

keep in mind it’s easier if you post what you have tried so that we can help you correct it.

vaderag · September 14, 2022, 3:09pm

Thank you…
Really appreciated