Please add the ability to create and configure “Notify groups” via the UI (e.g. improve the group helper?).
This would allow users to create Notify groups to enable notifying multiple devices.
This type of “Notify group” should only be a group so not contain triggers or conditions but instead just contain a list of notify service/action, and then that group could be used and reused in automations.
Notification group use case example is creating a Notify group to send notifications to:
notify:
- platform: group
name: all_phones_with_ha_app
unique_id: all_phones_with_ha_app
services:
- service: mobile_app_dads_iphone_14
- service: mobile_app_moms_iphone_13
- service: mobile_app_kid1s_ipad_se
- service: mobile_app_kid2s_ipad_se
This would make it easer to maintain many different Notify groups where you can add, change, or remove notify entities without having to edit the automation(s) that the Notify group is being used in.
Notify groups is today a special case of groups only available via YAML configuration.
PS: FYI, there looks to be a related ongoing architecture discussions but no usable UI solution as of yet:
PPS: Seen many similar feature requests but none that has simply asked for UI config. See ex: