Notifications are sent twice

Configuration
1

I am having an issue where the every push notification to my smartphone is being sent/received TWICE.

I have a little automation which sends a push notification whenever someone presses my doorbell (which is old brass pushbutton wired back to a classic brass chime - with a Shelly 1 relay in the middle).

I have also added a random number to the message to check to see if it IS actually the same message and it is i.e. the random number is the same on both notifications.

Automation YAML pasted below if it helps.

I would love any suggestions to help me fix this!

alias: Front door bell
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - switch.shellyplus1_fcb467bef400_switch_0
    from:
      - "off"
    to:
      - "on"
conditions:
  - condition: template
    value_template: |-
      {{ (as_timestamp(now()) -
            as_timestamp(states.automation.front_door_bell.attributes.last_triggered
            | default(0)) | int > 5)}}
actions:
  - action: notify.notify
    metadata: {}
    data:
      message: Doorbell Pressed {{ range(1000)|random }}" at {{now().strftime('%-d %b at %I:%M %p')}}      title: Doorbell Pressed
      data:
        image: /local/tmp/last-frontdoor-motion.jpeg
  - delay:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 0
      seconds: 5
      milliseconds: 0
mode: single
2

When using notify.notify I get two notifications, but to two different end points.
Does it happen when you use a a specific notify action or just when using notify.notify?

This action isn’t really meant to be used as a standard action and the docs have included the following warning for a few years:

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Try using a more specific action.

3

Thank you - targetting specific smartphone device names worked.

I hadn’t realised that notify.notify was not supposed to be used. I was just treating it as a ‘notify all’ method.

4

I had the same issue even sending to a specific device notify.mobile_app_x on HA 2025.11.3
Updating to 2025.12.1 seems to have fixed it.

EDIT: It’s happening again :roll_eyes: