Using iOS actionable notifications to launch alternate app

Mobile Apps
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Thanks for sharing the new Reolink identifier. This url works for me “fb1675493782511558://”

It might change though. I had “reolink://” working in an actionable notification for about a year untill it changed.

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Quick update: you can now open any app on iOS with the shortcut uri.

Just create a shortcut that launch your app, and use this uri to run that shortcut:

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=[shortcut_name]

You can also pass inputs to the shortcut to create a switch/case and open app based on the input with only one shortcut.

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Hello, Is it possibile instead to avoid to open any app when clicking on the notification? I just want the actions to be clicked.
Thanks

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It sounds like you just need to enable a regular device notification, which is a heck of a lot less involved than an actionable one.

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so ive been trying really hard to get this to work with a PWA (Frigate). I can get the PWA to launch from a Shortcut by creating a shortcut that opens this url:

webapp://frigate.mydomain.com

Now, I want this PWA/Shortcut to open directly from a Companion App notification. Following the advice above, if I use the following as the URI within the notification data, it does work but with some very annoying side effects:

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=[shortcut_name]

the side effect is that the Home Assistant Companion App will briefly display first, then the Shortcuts app, THEN the PWA I have specified within the shortcut.

Can this sequence somehow be avoided, such that clicking the notification will directly launch the PWA? This is all on iOS 17.4.1 for reference.

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HI,
I will do the same an struggeling with showing the image in a bigger size.
The pure link is working in browser.

image: https://vgdbxxxxxxxxxxxxxe5zssssssscqm.ui.nabu.casa/local/frontdoor.jpg
actions:
  - action: URI
    title: Es hat geklingelt
    uri: Https://google.com

I have no idea why it doesn’t work. Do you have any idea. I have also no clou how to make it clickable to maximize or similar. And some strange behavior, sometimes I see a thumbnail sometimes not…