Twice now, after updating my iPhone Home Assistant app, the notifications integrations for my phone have disappeared. In the Repairs sections, I see multiple messages stating that the automation “XXXXX” has an unknown action: “notify.mobile_app_xxxxx”.
Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening again?
I too am having this issue. I don’t know at what point it happened, but assuming a recent update I installed. All of my 5 mobile devices (all android phone) have lost their mobile_app_[phoneid] entity. Re-registring the phone app makes no difference. All the other phone entities appear fine (eg battery levels, location, interactive state etc) from the companion app. I have tried multiple reboots, updated again to the newest version 2026.3.2 (from 2026.3.1, when I first noticed the issue.). I have cleared the cache/data for the companion app on one of the phones and re-registered it. Any further suggestions welcome. Thank you.
TLDR: The legacy notification actions are supposed to be deprecated, a new system of notification entities that are targets has been set up with a few actions to post to them.
I think I missed the deprivation notice. My Android companion apps and html5 notification in my browsers still generate actions, not entities. However, the notification groups I had set up in my config file are now being ignored (I’m guessing starting with 2023.3), so most of my automations hitting notification groups are busted. There’s a notifications group option in the helpers UI now, but it’s only looking for entities, not the legacy activities.
I could be wrong about how to read this, but I think we’re stuck in a transitional catch-up period.
I’ve dug around a tiny bit, but I am having a hard time finding anything related to work for this on the companion app. If anyone knows more, please share. I would love to not update ~70 automations once with calling multiple notification targets, and then have to update them again whenever the mobile apps catch up.
My mistake, I had an error in my config. Groups are working again for me.