Using Actionable Notifications in Home Assistant

I’ve seen a bunch of videos on YouTube lately that included actionable notifications in automations, but it’s not something I’d ever used before.

The Home Assistant companion documentation shows plenty of examples of how to include the actions in the notifications, but not much on how to actually respond to the action events. I came across this post that I found was a good starting point for my automation.

My initial use case for this was for a notification in the morning when the kids should be out to school, to prompt me to turn out any lights that they have inevitably left on.

My current automation for this is as follows. This checks if any of three lights are still on at 8am on a weekday, and if so sends a notification to my phone with the option to turn them off.

 alias: Notify - Kids lights left on description: "" trigger: - platform: time at: "08:00:00" condition: - condition: and conditions: - condition: time weekday: - mon - tue - wed - thu - fri alias: Is it a weekday? - condition: or conditions: - condition: state entity_id: light.childone_room_cloud_light state: "on" - condition: state entity_id: light.childone_room_bulb state: "on" - condition: state entity_id: light.childtwo_bedroom_main_bulb state: "on" alias: Are any of the boys lights on? action: - alias: Set up variables for the actions variables: action_no: "{{ 'NO_' ~ context.id }}" action_turnoff: "{{ 'TURNOFF_' ~ context.id }}" - alias: Notify Mobile service: notify.mobile_app_twelve data: message: Boys lights are still on. Turn off? data: actions: - action: "{{ action_turnoff }}" title: Turn off lights - action: "{{ action_no }}" title: Leave On - alias: Wait for a response wait_for_trigger: - platform: event event_type: mobile_app_notification_action event_data: action: "{{ action_no }}" - platform: event event_type: mobile_app_notification_action event_data: action: "{{ action_turnoff }}" - alias: Perform the action choose: - conditions: "{{ wait.trigger.event.data.action == action_no }}" sequence: [] - conditions: "{{ wait.trigger.event.data.action == action_turnoff }}" sequence: - service: light.turn_off data: {} target: entity_id: - light.childone_room_bulb - light.childtwo_bedroom_main_bulb - light.childone_room_cloud_light mode: single