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Mobile Push Transport Adaptor

Transport ID Source Requirements Optional
mobile_push mobile_push.py Companion App Notifications -

Discovery

Default delivery. If at least one Companion App device is registered (a mobile_app config entry exists) and no mobile_push delivery is configured, a mobile_push delivery is generated automatically and fires on every notification, with targets resolved per-recipient from the HA Companion App at delivery time.

Send a push message out, with option for camera integration, mobile actions, and translate general priority to Apple specific push priority.

Some functionality may also work with Android push, though has not been tested.

Although Supernotify will automatically set most useful mobile push options, its also possible to directly set them, as in this example:

  - action: supernotify.notify
    data:
      message: Movement at garden gate
      priority: high
      media:
        camera_entity_id: camera.porch
        camera_ptz_preset: garden_gate
      action_groups:
        - security_actions
      delivery:
        mobile_push:
          data:
            tag: "backyard-motion-detected"
            presentation_options:
              - alert
              - badge
            push:
              sound:
                name: "US-EN-Alexa-Motion-Detected-Generic.wav"
                volume: 1.0

Info

This has not been tested with Android, although both Apple and Android devices share same common core mobile push notifications. Pull Requests for adding Android functionality are welcome.

Notification Grouping

Set mobile_push_group in extra_data: to visually stack notifications together on the device (iOS thread-id / Android notification group):

  - action: supernotify.notify
    data:
      message: Someone is at the front door
      extra_data:
        mobile_push_group: security

If left unset, a notification with media.camera_entity_id is grouped under that camera's entity id automatically; otherwise it's left ungrouped, so it appears on its own rather than being stacked with unrelated notifications. Critical-priority notifications are never grouped - iOS doesn't support it for them.

Note

Don't confuse this with Action Groups - action_groups: is Supernotify's own unrelated concept for reusable sets of actionable-notification buttons. The name clash is with the Companion App's own group attribute, not with Supernotify's action groups.

Default Delivery

A default Delivery called mobile_push will be automatically generated for Mobile Push transport if no explicit ones created, since this is the new standard HomeAssistant notification provider. If you don't want to use it, then use configuration as below:

transports:
  mobile_push:
    disabled: false

Auto generating targets

By default, where no explicit target is given, mobile push will send to all known devices of all known recipients ( usually the list of Person integration entries in Home Assistant, and mobile apps found in Home Assistant that have their user_id and Notify Entities available), and filter those recipients by occupancy status if wanted in the Delivery configuration.

Mobile Push can also do its own device discovery and ignore recipients. If you want to switch off that behaviour, and drive it only by the defined recipients, then switch on device discovery.

Configuration snippet
transports:
  mobile_push:
    delivery_defaults:
      options:
        device_discovery: true

By default this will look for all mobile_app devices, and can be narrowed down by using the device_model_select,device_manufacturer_select, device_area_select, device_label_select and device_os_select patterns.

Configuration snippet
transports:
  mobile_push:
    delivery_defaults:
      options:
        device_discovery: true
        device_label_select:
          include:
            - parents
          exclude:
            - kids
        device_manufacturer_select:
          exclude:
            - Apple
            - Amazon
        device_model_select: .*Pixel.*
        device_os_select:
          exclude:
            - MacOS
            - iOS

You can also use the device select options if not using auto-discovery - this will then limit that delivery to matching devices when they have been auto-discovered at start-up for all deliveries, or have been manually defined for recipients.

References

Home Assistant Core