No sourceDeviceID in automation event when NFC is scanned in HA app

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UPD 08/12/2024: This should be fixed when my pull request #2910 reached the App Store - roughly around the last week of the August

I’m playing with an automation that is supposed to be triggered when an authorized HA user scans a NFC tag. Then the automation is supposed to send an actionable notification to the device that was used to scan the tag.

I already have an automation that does a similar thing when an event is triggered from the Apple Watch companion app.

notify.mobile_app_{{ trigger.event.data.sourceDeviceID }}

It works perfectly, since the event contains a sourceDeviceID (which in fact contains an iPhone name) that can be used to send back a notification to a specific mobile device. Example of a such event below:

  event:
    event_type: ios.action_fired
    data:
      actionID: actuate
      actionName: actuate
      sourceDeviceID: n6ham
      sourceDeviceName: N6HAM
      sourceDevicePermanentID: ...
      triggerSource: watch
    origin: REMOTE
    time_fired: '2024-08-08T19:03:44.183244+00:00'
    context:
      id: ...
      parent_id: null
      user_id: <User_ID>

I just wanted to add another trigger (Tag scanned) into the same automation, but it doesn’t work because there is no data related to the mobile device that scanned the tag. For example:

  event:
    event_type: tag_scanned
    data:
      tag_id: ...
      name: Garage Keypad
      device_id: 1f53d5bda8384j06037a904e801febac373
    origin: LOCAL
    time_fired: '2024-08-08T18:52:55.437050+00:00'
    context:
      id: ...
      parent_id: null
      user_id: <User_ID>

There’s off course a user_id that can give an idea who scanned the tag, but I don’t want to maintain a mapping of user id to mobile device or device id to device name anywhere on HA side. Ideally there should be a sourceDeviceID=n6ham in the event too.

Does anyone have workaround in mind, or this has to be a new feature request?

Alternatively, is there a way to send a notification to a mobile app using an actual device ID instead of device name, like

# notify.mobile_app_n6ham
notify.mobile_app_1f53d5bda8384j06037a904e801febac373