Service Notify Mobile Actions: What is the data structure?

[ALEXTHENINJA007]

Im trying to write a script to send Push Notifications to mobile but I can figure out the data structure required for actions within the push notification.

So the yaml specs look like this

service: notify.mobile_XXXXXXX
data:
  message: "Something happened at home!"
  data:
    actions:
      - action: "ALARM" # The key you are sending for the event
        title: "Sound Alarm" # The button title

and I have tried stuff like this but I cant seem to get it to work.

notify.mobile_XXXXXXXX(message="actiontest",data={actions: [{"action": "Test","title": "sometitle"}]})
notify.mobile_XXXXXXXX(message=todoItem.summary,actions={{"action": "ACTION", "title": "Complete"},{"action": "action2", "title": "Sleep"}})

If anyone knows what the structure is I need that would be much appreciated thankyou.

[ALERTua]

your first variant is right, but you messed up the syntax. my advice is to use dictionaries with keywords instead of strings
in Python these are equal

{'key': 'value', 'key2': 'value2'}

dict(key='value', key2='value2')

but the second variant is more easily readable and comes with less typos
the signature of notify.x method is

def mobile_XXXXXXX(message: str, title: str = '', target=None, data=None):

so your answer is (with my advice in mind)

notify.mobile_XXXXXXXX(
    message="actiontest", 
    data=dict(
        actions=[
            dict(action="Test", title="sometitle")
        ]
    )
)

or without the spacing

notify.mobile_XXXXXXXX(message="actiontest", data=dict(actions=[dict(action="Test", title="sometitle")]))

https://github.com/dmamelin/pyscript_autocomplete helps with autocompletion and method signatures.

[stevius10]

I had written a generic function for this, also to address different mobile devices differently:

def notify(message, data=None, target=DEFAULT_NOTIFICATION_TARGET, default=True):
  devices = DEVICES.get(target) if target else [target for targets in DEVICES.values() for target in targets]

  if default:
    devices = [device for device in devices if device.get("default")]

  for device in devices:
    service.call("notify", f"mobile_app_{device['id']}", message=message, data=data)

I use a dictionary to manage devices:

DEVICES = {"home": [{ "id": "tablet", "default": False }, .. ], "mobile": [{ "id": "smartphone", "default":True }, .. ]}

Use it to trigger iOS automations via shortcuts:

def shortcut(message, shortcut, input=None, target=DEFAULT_NOTIFICATION_TARGET, **kwargs):
  data = { "shortcut": { "name": shortcut, "input": input } }

  for key, value in kwargs.items():
    if isinstance(value, str):
      data["shortcut"][key] = value
  notify(message=message, data=data, target=target)

Maybe it could help one or the other, I also had problems understanding how exactly the structure is passed at first 😅