Home Assistant Actionable Notifications on iOS AND Android

I'm not very good with automations. However based on your video i was able to get it going (message) on my first go. I have it sending an automation that my Side gate was opened. What would I need to do to send a notification if it was still open after 'x' minutes? Thanks

Is there a way to make the action open an app that is installed on the phone using the com.appname

Hey Lewis, hello everyone :)

i was wondering if I could open my door (nuke smart lock 2.0 + bridge) with that? The idea is when I am arriving at home I'll get a push notification with a button like e.g. "Open Door". By clicking this button the door should open.

I know I could use autounlock within the nuki app, but this isn't working for me reliable. So, is this possible? If yes, how does the code has to look like in the "Data" Area of the action in my automation? Or does it have to be via a webhook or something?

Thanks.

Can you explain how to perform 2 operations when both external operations (not URI) assume that CHOSE should be used

This video is super helpful! Is there a way to choose between multiple custom actions? Basically, selecting the custom action just causes the automation to continue, but I would like to have multiple custom options that would involve listening for their identifiers.

Love your work. Great information and clear explanations.

I wanted to change the color os the notification on the android.
The same color for everything doesnt suite right...
In case of alarm or leak or something like that, I wanted to get a Red notification in order to get the proper attention

hi i cant get notfi... in my android phone and lg tv but my ios phone is ok

still cannot bring a image in a notification are there some changes ? my path is image: /media/local/snapshots/voron.jpg

Thank you for the video! As others mentioned, is there a way to have multiple action buttons? In my case, I want to either open the door or open the garage door. I can't find a way to do that. Same as others, I just can't pair the "Wait for" with the other actions.

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation, which helped a lot.

Everything is working well but the action button, I got the same name for the "action name", but when I press the button nothing happens

I used to use Prowl. I know there is way to call Prowl with an addition to config.yaml in HA, but I'd rather just use HA ios notifications. But I miss not being able to see all the previous notifications easily (like Prowl). Is there an easy way to set up HA to see all the recent notifications in the same way? thanks ..edit... Don't worry I worked out how to integrate and use Prowl within HA.. gone back to that.. All good 😀

Thanks, complete new user here and in the space of a weekend you’ve become my first point of call already due to your clear and concise explanations

Dude, for real, you're the best!

Hi Lewis, as always amazing work and very clearly explained. I was hoping you might help with having more than one actional custom buttons, I have two buttons showing but how to you work the identification between the triggers, If I have two time delays neither trigger works, it is almost like it needs an if or else type thing. Any help would be amazing to show how to accomplish two or more custom buttons. Cheers Dave

This is very helpful! What cameras are everyone using that work so well in Home Assistant? I have some Blink cameras and it does not appear that I can get a live feed like this. Thoughts?

Hi Lewis, first of all, thanks for the effort you put into this video. It got me up and running in no time. Have you seen any issue with the image not updating in the actionable notification? For me, it appears that even though the image in the Home Assistant source folder is updated, the one that appears in the actionable notification is older. Any suggestions?

Is there a reason that you do a weight trigger to listen for the action event instead of simply setting it up an automation that listens for that action separate? Thinking of how I would use this, I would have to load up a bunch of triggers and all the places I would use it when if I just had the automation separate, sounds easier to pull off, but I wasn't sure if you did it the way you did it for a reason .

Old video… STILL AMAZING! Thank you so much; this really started me down a new path.

As usual, great video

Hi nice toturial, do you know why or how can I make the button decision to appear without holding down the notification?

For iOS, when the notification pops up, do you have to long press to get the action button to pop up?

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The new screens looks different now, but still works, just automated my Reolink PoE DoorBell! :) Thanks!

Another excellent video. Easy to follow and really helped me with using automations in HA. Thank You!

Hi, Very good tutorial, thank you.
Is it possible to send video files (a camera recording for example) with android notifications?

Wonder can android show the live stream now??

How you create face_latest file?

Hi love this video, do you see a large popup on an android phone? I receive a sound notification but no popup at all. on 3 different android devices. I can see it is from HA the title matches with what I entered in the automation. I can see the invisible notificatinf when I swipe dor with a timy thumbnail of the snap.
All notifications are enabled A

Hi Hope you can help please. I Followed this for a simple Gate Notification (whereby I can close the gate if open longer than X) but it just automatically shuts the gate theres no "actionable" bit - what am I missing - heres my Yaml?

alias: Main Gate Notification
description: "Notify apps when the Main Gate is Open "
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- binary_sensor.shellydw2_483fda81e506_door
from: "off"
to: "on"
for:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 30
condition: []
action:
- service: notify.mobile_app_sm_g998b
data:
message: Main Gate Open
title: Actionable Gate
data:
actions:
- action: Main_Gate_open
title: Main Gate Open
- wait_for_trigger: []
timeout:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 30
milliseconds: 0
continue_on_timeout: false
- wait_for_trigger:
- platform: event
event_type: mobile_app_notification_event
event_data:
action: Main_Gate_open
timeout:
hours: 0
minutes: 0
seconds: 30
milliseconds: 0
- service: script.momentary_front_gate
data: {}
- service: notify.mobile_app_sm_g998b
data:
message: Main Gate Closed
mode: single

My notifications don't automatically open up like on this video (I'm on a Google Pixel 7 Pro) which is really what I want - especially as some are critical, actionable notifications. Couldn't find anything in the companion apps settings. Is this an Android setting?

Where can we find the YAML to follow along would be much easier?

Thank you Lewis for the video. I have an android phone running the assistent. How do I access the interface you use in your videos?

Sorry for the noob question 😅

Behavior on my Android phone is different. I have to open the Notifications to see them all listed, then open the specific Notification, then open the image if I want to see it. Also, the device_id: camera.doorbell method is still not there in Android I guess!

Great video! Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks for your videos. They are great. Could you speak a little bit slower?

I'm using a duckdns page. I can get the notifications fine but no images or video attached.

My HA set up is local only with no external access. Will it still notify me if I’m outside of my home? Or do notifications only work when I’m at home?

Is it possible to get the camera feed of a specific camera to open instead of the tab where you might have several cameras? Awsome video btw!

If you are ever planning to expand this video.

I would like to learn more about the notification commands and the clear notification.

PS: love the cannel

No worky anymore in 2024.3.3

fyi you can do the wait for trigger in a separate automation if you don't want it sitting there waiting and want it to continue for other reasons

2 years later and no live camera feed in android :(

Great video. Is it possible to get that live feed notification working on an android phone? I don't get that working yet

Does it still works on Android 14?