What is the push id found in iOS 2.0 beta for?

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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I’ve read most of the notification documentation found here and don’t understand what this ID is for.

https://companion.home-assistant.io/en/notifications/basic.html

2

For registration and rate limiting:

3

Ah ok so then we don’t have to provide it in our configuration? We only have to provide mostly a category among other things? (I have yet to make an actionable or a good notification so far mine have been with just a message so still don’t know everything you need.)

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Hang on. I think we are talking about different things. What you are talking about is this right?

    action:
      service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id_here>

That’s not the push id. It’s the id of your device, like “tom_ls_phone”, so the whole service would be:

    action:
      service: notify.mobile_app_tom_ls_phone

See what yours is called here:

This can be checked in the App Configuration menu of the sidebar and defaults to the name specified in the General>About within the iOS settings app (with spaces and non alphanumeric characters replaced by underscores).

Another easy way is to go to the Configuration , Integrations menu in home assistant (not the app) and look for your mobile device. There should be a tracker entity near the bottom with this format: device_tracker.<your_device_id>

use that same id in service: notify.mobile_app_<your_device_id>

The push_id is something completely different used in the back end that you dont have to worry about.

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I was talk about what you if you go to the ios 2.0 beta app App Configuration > Notifications

After “Confirm before opening URL” you see PUSH ID. It states in the bottom: This is the target to use in your Home Assistant configuration. Tap to copy or share.

What you are saying I completely understand. My was set to iphone, and I can rename this as it is an entity name either way so if I go to dev tools in HA I can change the name of the entity id if I want to.

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Ok we were talking about the same thing, and no you don’t need it for notifications or actionable notifications configuration.

target can be used to specific a single device using its PushID, found in ios.conf. The preferred way of providing a target is through a target specific notify service.

So there is another way to do it using the push_id but you don’t need to.

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Actually that push ID under iOS.conf is different from the one I have in my app. Go check it out. The one I have in the app is very long but the one in the iOS.conf file is much smaller

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Is the push id in the app supposed to change at each launch? Running latest beta and notifications aren’t working for me currently…

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I wouldn’t think. I have look at that push I’d consistently to see if it has changed. Do you mean that it has changed every time you close the app even from the background?

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Stumbled on this old thread looking for the same answer and found it. Figured I’d share in case anyone else had the same question.