Is there a way to pass notify entities to an Action Node? I’m working on some alarm system code, and want to use a function node to pass the “recipient” to the Action Node (or a different node, if that’ll make it work).
For instance, in the image below, I want to pass in mobile_app_james_iphone via json, if that makes sense…
Thanks!!
You can send a JSON object with the full config of the node. Make sure the box to block input overrides is unchecked in the action node.
https://zachowj.github.io/node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket/node/action.html#input
Thanks, that’s exactly what I needed!
Well, I’m still stuck. I’m obviously new to this…
In my function node, I have this just for testing:
msg.payload = { "action" : "notify.mobile_app_james_iphone", "message" : "testing 123" }
return msg;
Yet, I get the following error in the action node:
name: “ValidationError”
message: ““action” is not allowed to be empty”
stack: “ValidationError: “action” is not allowed to be empty”
Which seems odd - - - my payload has an “action”, and I think it’s valid json?
Message needs to be in the data section but i believe the block input override is still checked.
{
"action": "notify.mobile_app_james_iphone",
"data": {
"message": "testing 123"
}
}
If it is unchecked and you still get the error, delete that action node and pull a new one out to the workspace.
Here’s the way I do it. Absolutely no claim that is this the best way, or even a good way 
First, I set the message and title (heading) properties I want:
This info is passed to an Action Node:
And this is the layout of the Data section of that Action Node:
Well, kicking myself, but I figured it out. In my function node, I was setting the payload to a string that represented the json object. I assumed the action node would parse that string.
I instead created a true json object in the function node, and set payload to equal the object. Works perfectly!
