Actionable Notifications

[relianteng]

It would be nice if there was a default action associated with just tapping a notification. Oftentimes people in my household will just tap on an actionable notification and it opens up the app instead of doing anything useful.

Can a default action be implemented? Not sure if iOS allows this, but alternately it would be nice if tapping on the notification would display the actions.

[zacwest]

Showing the list of actions when tapping on the notification is something I intend to implement, but haven't had an opportunity to finish yet. Something like:

You can put the url key in the notification to control where the notification goes when tapped right now. See the docs.

[relianteng]

The url key is what I need to use to define a default action, but I do not see an example on how to fire an event for a specific action. The docs show the below:

I do not see anything in the documentation for actionable notifications to tell me what to use for the url. I tried various things but could not fire an event. Am I missing something? Can you provide an example url key that will fire an action event?

[obelix05]

You can try a webhook:
https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/trigger/#webhook-trigger

[relianteng]

That was what I was thinking too, but the webhook must be HTTP POST. If I just use the url for the webhook it is a GET request and doesn’t work. Am I missing something? I haven’t used webhooks before.

[richardwonka]

the documentation on possible values for URI: could do with some examples like

• external URIs
• /dashboard-foo/bar URIs
• running a script or activating a scene from from an anctionable notification
• URIs that use parameters or template values - if this is even possible??

[maxistviews]

I would also like this feature to be implemented - an additional event which fires from a notification simply being tapped.

My use case is currently unsupported by the app. I would like the user to be able to tap the notification and be taken to a URL. Once the notification has been tapped, I would like a service to be called from within Home Assistant.

I've thought about using App Events, but this will not sufficiently allow me to detect a user tapping on the notification, and can be triggered by simply opening the app.