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is it possible to open a link in chrome on my android phone ?
how?

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If you mean you want to press a button to open a website, you can do this:

hold_action:
  action: url
  url_path: >-
    https://

Just fill in the address of your choice. Also, Iā€™m using for hold action on a Mushroom template card

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No, I want to make an automation in HA , that opens an url in chrome on my phone.

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A bit late but thought i add my solution because you wanted a button. You have to find the Intent of the app you want to open. Also you can open different activities if you find the right intent!

Opens YouTube Home:

show_name: true
show_icon: true
type: button
tap_action:
  action: url
  url_path: >-
    intent:#Intent;component=com.google.android.youtube/com.google.android.youtube.app.application.Shell$HomeActivity;end
hold_action:
  action: none
name: YouTube
icon: mdi:youtube

Opens Youtube Settings:

show_name: true
show_icon: true
type: button
tap_action:
  action: url
  url_path: >-
    intent:#Intent;component=com.google.android.youtube/com.google.android.apps.youtube.app.application.Shell$SettingsActivity;end
hold_action:
  action: none
name: YouTube Settings
icon: mdi:youtube
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HI there, this works fine for You tube. Does anyone know how to find the intents for other android apps. Im looking for Listonic

66

found how to do it. This link works great.
https://support.actiontiles.com/knowledge-bases/8/articles/4083-finding-the-intent-url-for-an-android-app-to-launch-from-fully

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A little late to the game but for anyone looking to do this like I was, here an updated easy way to do so.
To get your apps package name open the apps playstore page and click share. The app package name should be appended at the end of the link.
Below youā€™ll find how I got an action button to open my reolink app.

service: notify.mobile_app_pixel_5
data:
  message: Person Detected
  title: Doorbell Motion
  data:
    image: local/snapshots/doorbell.jpg
    actions:
      - action: URI
        title: Open Reolink app
        uri: app://com.mcu.reolink
enabled: true
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i have a App called Remote Controller. the URL i found is com.huawei.android.remotecontroller
what must be the url_path senn then? have tried it once so,

intent:#Intent;component=com.huawei.android.remotecontroller/com.huawei.android.remotecontroller.app.application.Shell$HomeActivity;end

but it comes an error message that HA can not load the URL.

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Here is a short how-to video for the same on both android and iOS.

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I am trying to do something similar but canā€™t seem to get it working. I am getting this error:

expected dict for dictionary value @ data['data']. Got None extra keys not allowed @ data['actions']. Got None

Here is the call I am using:

service: notify.mobile_app_pixel_tablet
data:
  message: Motion Detected
  title: Motion Detected
  data:
  actions:
    - action: URI
      title: Open Home Assistant
      uri: app://io.homeassistant.companion.android
enabled: true

Any Ideas?

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Nevermind I found my issue with spacing. actions needed to be spaced out. However this didnā€™t seem to solve what I wanted. I was hoping this would automatically open the app however it just gives a notification to click on that will open the app. :frowning:

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to open the HA app you need to use the correct command

https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notification-commands#webview

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Was reviewing this for another application.
To send destination to Tesla for navigation, by ā€œsharingā€ the address with the Tesla app.
Since Tesla app uses Google navigation setup, the google navigation works for sending address to Tesla too.
ex. for google from Notification Commands

automation:
  - alias: Search google maps
    trigger:
      ...
    action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>
        data:
          message: "command_activity"
          data:
            intent_package_name: "com.google.android.apps.maps"
            intent_action: "android.intent.action.VIEW"
            intent_uri: "geo:0,0?q=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway%2C+CA"

Changing the package name to Tesla app will send the navigation specified in ā€œintent_uriā€ to Tesla car.

intent_package_name:"com.teslamotors.tesla"

May work for other ā€œsmartā€ cars too.

Other format for the intent_uri found here ā€¦ Google Maps

Perhaps this will be helpful to somebody.

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My approach was to find native deep-links for the app. After decompiling the apk, Iā€™ve found that the app of my interest supports deep-links even tho it wasnt used anywhere. So I read the decompiled APK using my limited machine code knowledge and traced the code line-by-line. After 6+ hours, Iā€™ve find whats basically a giant switch-case to handle different deep-link keywords.

With this knowledge I was able to guess the format and opened the app via a long-press of a tile card with URL.

P.S. Not all apps support this deep-link feature tho.

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