If anyone with the knowledge to build apps is looking for an idea, I think the following would be really useful.
A Hubitat mobile phone notification app that utilizes either Join or Tasker on Android to show a notification but then allow for some predefined buttons to exist on that notification that would send web calls back to the hub to do something.
For instance, you arrive home so a notification is sent to your phone and says "Welcome home!" and then it would have options below to say disarm the alarm, open the garage door, unlock the front door". Or perhaps you receive a notification that your home alarm is going off you have the option in the notification to disarm HSM.
If you used an Android Wear smart watch, you would also receive these notifications and actions on your watch!
I know there would still be a lot of configuring the user would have to do on their phone but it would be nice if there was a custom notification app on Hubitat that you could send notifications to, design the responses which would aid with creating the needed web calls to initiate the actions.
Not sure if all is this can be done on a custom built Hubitat app or not but it would be so useful and I could see it making its way into the stock Hubitat app in the future.
"If configured, can display actionable links in the notification (actions include but not limited to: run a Tasker task, open a url"
I'm mainly thinking an app that you send your notifications to, instead of the Hubitat app, then it asks you what you what you want the actions on the notification to be and assists with creating the web calls and actions to carry those options out on the notification. Would also help keep everything organized.
That would mean you would have to create an Android app to do that...since that is where you have to define them. That wouldn't be a Hubitat app to do that.
You can do this with tasker and join but it's a little clunky. Takes a long time to set up. I was hoping someone would be interested in finding a way to build an app that would make it less clunky.
Notifications with context specific actions are next level!
When I come home I get a notification that sends me an alert that u or someone is home, Hubitat will adjust thermostats (all 3 ) disarm the HSM, change mode. I use to also have it unlock my door.
This is exactly what Vivint does. Could be a neat future addition to the HE app. No reason HE couldn't handle that with a feature addition to the app for user input options. The rest could be handled in RM.
There's not even a notifications history available for the app. Now you want to be able to set up actionable notifications on the app? Great idea...but i won't hold my breath.
Yes, that is not the same thing as "Actionable Notifications". That refers to notifications that give you button options at the bottom of them to perform certain tasks. Like in the gmail notification you can delete the email. Etc. (And btw, this is all Andorid related. I have no idea what exists in the i universe.)
You see the "10 Minutes" and "Done"? Those are actions within the notification. This is an "Actionable Notification". I don't know that what you're proposing will even work but it is not an Actionable Notification.
What you can't do is have an app set that up for you automatically. And the only app that could do that for you would have to be an Android app because the configuration is within the join app....not in HE.
