Recipe - Contextual Mobile Actions¶

Purpose¶

When mobile actions are included in an Actionable Notification, only include ones that are currently relevant. So if the Alarm Control Panel is disarmed, don't show the Disarm action, and likewise if the panel is armed.

This avoids the mobile notification being messy and cluttered, and also the inevitable incorrect selections by the inhabitants.

Implementation¶

Uses a Scenario, with conditions to select the alarm control panel states, and action_groups to pick pre-defined sets of mobile actions. The Arm action will only show if alarm panel state is disarmed, and the Reset action will always be available.

This scenario contributes only mobile actions, and other scenarios ( or delivery defaults ) could combine to contribute other things like sirens, camera snapshots, push noises etc.

The mobile action itself will be handled by the AutoArm custom integration, which responds to the ALARM_PANEL_DISARM, ALARM_PANEL_RESET etc action keys.

Example Configuration¶

name: SuperNotifier
platform: supernotify
recipients:
  - person: person.joe_mcphee
    mobile_devices:
        - mobile_app_id: mobile_app_joe_nokia

delivery:
  apple_push:
    transport: mobile_push
scenarios:
  alarm_disarmed:
    conditions:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
        state:
          - disarmed
    action_groups:
      - alarm_panel_arm
      - alarm_panel_reset

  alarm_armed:
    conditions:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: alarm_control_panel.home_alarm
      state:
        - armed_home
        - armed_night
        - armed_away
    action_groups:
      - alarm_panel_disarm
      - alarm_panel_reset

action_groups:
  alarm_panel_disarm:
    - action: ALARM_PANEL_DISARM
      title: "Disarm Alarm Panel"
      icon: "sfsymbols:bell.slash"
  alarm_panel_reset:
    - action: ALARM_PANEL_RESET
      title: "Arm Alarm Panel for at Home"
      icon: "sfsymbols:bell"
  alarm_panel_arm:
    - action: ALARM_PANEL_AWAY
      title: "Arm Alarm Panel for Going Away"
      icon: "sfsymbols:airplane"

Example Notify Action¶

action: notify.supernotify
data:
    message: Motion detected in hallway

Variations¶

The occupancy and time of day could also be taken into account, so for example the Armed Night action wasn't offered during the day.