Use Home Assistant to send intent to owntracks

[applesoff]

I have come up with this script in HA to change monitoring modes in owntracks, but I cannot figure out why it does not function. Am i missing something?

alias: Update Owntracks
description: ""
triggers:
  - device_id: bb5a31b99644cf3445ba397d42318785
    domain: device_tracker
    entity_id: e8c9c093a20f5bc2c01ec02e39e1d985
    type: enters
    trigger: device
    zone: zone.home
conditions: []
actions:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_s21
    data:
      message: "command_broadcast_intent"
      data:
        intent_package_name: "org.owntracks.android"
        intent_action: "org.owntracks.android.CHANGE_MONITORING"
        intent_extras: "monitoring:0"
        ttl: 0
        priority: high
      target: service

[zutewas]

I know it's not your question, but I can't use your way with service notify in my environment. I'm using a script in HA to set the monitoring modes. For this you you must activate "remote commands" and "remote configuration" in owntracks app.

After this you can publish mqtt messages like this to set the monitoring mode.

data:
  qos: "0"
  topic: owntracks/myname/phone/cmd
  payload: >-
    {"_type": "cmd", "action": "setConfiguration", "configuration":{"_type":
    "configuration","monitoring": 0}}
action: mqtt.publish

I'm using this script e.g. in automations like:

• if phone not in wlan, set mode 1 (significant)
• if phone in wlan, set mode 0 (manual)
• ...

[SuperPino64]

Same problem, why does this not work via HTTP?

action: notify.mobile_app_william_a35
data:
  message: command_broadcast_intent
  data:
    intent_package_name: "org.owntracks.android"
    intent_action: "org.owntracks.android.CHANGE_MONITORING"
    intent_extras: "monitoring:1"
    ttl: 0
    priority: high
  target: service

In the log (debug) I don´t see anything.
HA companion app reports the notification correct in notification history.

[frostworx]

Hi all!

Sorry for the bump with no solution, I only try to add some findings and sorry for the wall of text!

I'm missing the same functionality (using grapheneos on a pixel8pro)

When leaving my home zone I want the monitoring being set automatically to 2, when I return I want it to be set back to 1.
(maybe even with an extra toggle for "near my car")

I can confirm that sending the intent from HA does not work, but have no idea where the problem is upstream.

running

am start-service -a org.owntracks.android.CHANGE_MONITORING --ei monitoring 2

manually in termux (like documented here)
works just fine, but there doesn't seem to be an option to trigger this remotely/from HA

Seems like the automation app "tasker" is able to solve this (thread), but it is closed source and therefore no option for me

It would be great if owntracks itself had some trigger options internally (set to "$int" when entered/left wifi or "$bledevice" is seen), but I can't even guess how much work this would be to implement this.

I've found this austrian (-> german lang) blog where the author tried very much as well to solve the problem

https://kmj.at/GrapheneOS_der_Datenschutz_Gold_Standard_fuer_sichere_Mobiltelefone___Installation_Pixel_8a_mit_GrapheneOS_und_Unified_Push_ntfy_inkl_Self_Hosted_Server/

(tasker is no option, trackcar, easer, termux...)

Looking for further open source alternatives which might solve this I found
this tool https://github.com/henrichg/PhoneProfilesPlus
In theory it looks like it could help here, but it might be too "bloated"/complicated for this single task(?), so I'm undecided yet, if I want to consider that as an option (I'll report back if I tried it and find out something useful).

@zutewas sorry for the confusion:

thank you for trying to help with your approach!
it seems like you got a working solution using mqtt, but I'm, not 100% sure how you use it or if I can use it the same way.

Currently I use http connection from owntracks to HA (through nabu casa) which works just fine
(unrelated but dawarich HA connection via dawarich-home-assistant) works fine as well :)).

You do use a mqtt connection instead of http connection within owntracks, right? Seems like there is no (obvious) option to use both http and mqtt simulaneously (so I guess I had to drop my currently configuration EDIT: kind of like this)

I guess you use a separate (exposed or bridged) mosquitto broker which can be reached externally, right?

Sorry for the possibly stupid questions.