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stiff pilot Apr 3, 2026, 9:48 AM

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So long time user always used the notify.mobile_whatever to send notifications but never used it that much and recently i had the need to use it. But there are 0 notify.* entries when i check states in developer tools. I followed all the basic things i came acros:

Log out log in home assistant app
Remove entry in mobile app in home assistant
Pushed the button in the companion app under the push-id and see the id chnage
Restarted HA in between
Completly remove the app from the phone, then deleted the mobile app device in HA. Then reinstalled the app and still nothing

Yes, notifications are turned on for the app, all options are turned on. I gave it all the possible rights it can have. For fun i tried my wifes phone, she gets the exact same issue also no notify.* items. Am i so out of touch with HA that i missed an update or am i seeing things.

Also followed https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/troubleshooting/faqs/?utm_source=chatgpt.com#i-dont-see-a-notifymobile_app-action-for-my-device-in-my-dev-services-panel and tried the usual AI crap suggestions too 🙂

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toxic comet Apr 3, 2026, 8:16 PM

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I also have this issue. It’s frustrating me. I can’t register my phone for notifications. All the users I have can receive notifications except me

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 6:53 AM

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I can’t even have 1 phone working..could make a ticket but I am pretty sure they would send me here first hence the question 🤣

thin bane Apr 4, 2026, 8:29 AM

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The below works for me

action: notify.mobile_app_myphone
data:
  message: "{{states('input_text.message')}}."
  title: Mode Status > {{states('input_select.mode')}}

the action being the important piece of - it has worked on iOS 18 and still working with iOS 26.4

mental whale Apr 4, 2026, 6:05 PM

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I have only one BIG problem with the latest HA release 2026.4.1. It seems that "channel" and "group" options are not working anymore. No more grouped notifications but only a long list of all notifications coming from HA based only on time...

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 8:48 PM

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thin bane The below works for me ``` action: notify.mobile_app_myphone data: message: "{...

this used to work for me, but the notify.* is just not there even after all the steps i tried..

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:40 PM

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stiff pilot So long time user always used the notify.mobile_whatever to send notifications b...

But there are 0 notify.* entries when i check states in developer tools.

Notification services aren't listed in states though. They aren't entities. Did you try finding them in the actions tab of developer tools? They should show up there

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 9:41 PM

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tender pebble > But there are 0 notify.* entries when i check states in developer tools. Noti...

i would expect them there..

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:42 PM

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oh, Ive never used that. For me there's a notify.mobile_app_<name of my phone> option in the actions dropdown at the top

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That's what I use

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:43 PM

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stiff pilot i would expect them there..

yea notifications on my phone work just fine and my phone also doesn't show up in there when I try what you're showing

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 9:44 PM

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so i searched in that list for my phone, and low and behold it is there.. tested it out and it works..

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such a silly little thing that got me all screwed up for so long doh..

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friend of mine mentioned he did see his devices in that list, so assumed mine was broken ;p

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:45 PM

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huh. I'm not really sure then. it does seem kind of odd that phones don't show up there

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though that particular action can only send a message, nothing else

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so its pretty tough to use it for mobile app notifications anyway. There's a ton more options available and none of htem can be used there

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 9:47 PM

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yeah there is also a "send a notification" notify.notify you can select targets, but there i cannot select any phone. Kind of weird

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same if i go to helpers in the UI, then select make a group, then select notify. Also i cannot select any targets there

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could you see if that works for you..?

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:51 PM

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so I think notify.notify works but target means something totally different then elsewhere. Its way older then the target picker you see on all other actions and the difference hasn't been reconciled

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:53 PM

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stiff pilot yeah there is also a "send a notification" notify.notify you can select targets,...

Yea I think you just have to do what I described above. Find the specific action called notify.mobile_app_<your phone name> in the list of actions and use that. I looked up the notify.notify service and there's a whole note on the companion app notifications about this: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/notify/#companion-app-notifications

Home Assistant

Notifications

Instructions on how to add user notifications to Home Assistant.

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I think notify.notify is borderline unusable these days reading the documentation actually lol

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 9:54 PM

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well at least i don't feel that dumb anymore 😉

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:55 PM

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but if memory serves the target there is referenceing that some integrations register one notification service/action and then use that field to basically send a message to differnet channels. And you just have to read the doc about what to write there

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 9:55 PM

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well the whole thing started because i wanted to make a notify group , so i could just do notify.family and it would target all phones

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:56 PM

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Here we go. Here's an example of the target field in action when it comes to notifications: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/twilio_sms/#usage

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 9:56 PM

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Docs: Notify groups
This group is a special case of groups currently only available via YAML configuration.

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:56 PM

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see how twilio makes one service and then you use target to select a phone number

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 9:56 PM

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Yet you can go to the UI -> Helpers -> Groups -> Notify..

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:56 PM

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instead of making a service per phone number

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 9:57 PM

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yeah so its a mix of both seems like it..

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 9:58 PM

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stiff pilot Yet you can go to the UI -> Helpers -> Groups -> Notify..

Yea but only some lol

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idk notifications need some love lol. Its been a pending project for a major refactor for a while

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 9:59 PM

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i used notify back in the days when Frenck wasn't a thing, so thats a long time ago ;p

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 10:00 PM

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haha fair enough

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yea so like for example on my system when I Try to make a notify group I can only see one option. I added the File integration to let me write to a file

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out of hte many notification service options I have and use in my automations, that's the only one that appears

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 10:01 PM

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yeah notify for mobile i think that still works but only if you do it in yaml

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for groups that is

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 10:01 PM

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yea it definitely does in yaml. I have multiple of htose setup

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you just set action to mobile_app_<phone name>

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 10:02 PM

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and this all started because i didn't get a push notification for my bin from the app of my city. Had to bring the trash far away myself got so fed up that i wanted a backup notification.. i think i am overdoing it but now i just want it done ;p

tender pebble Apr 4, 2026, 10:03 PM

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lol I just looked at mine and mine's even more hilarious. I have a bunch of notify groups in yaml that look like this:

- name: home
  platform: group
  services: []

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And then I have an automation that listens for the call service event for those and passes it off to a script lol

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since all these notification services have such different options and refuse to accept things they don't understand that are only for one

stiff pilot Apr 4, 2026, 10:06 PM

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and notify doesn't do auto complete anywhere.. ;p

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