Notify groups from UI not working

[renssies]

The problem

Is was excited to see notify groups in the list of helpers in the UI on 2024.8. However the notify group helper seems to be broken?

When I tied to create a notify group from the UI the list of entities is empty and states "No matching entities found". While I don't have any notify entities, I do have a number of notify actions (previously called services).

If I manually enter these notify "actions" and create the group, then it is saved. However the group does not appear under the actions (previously called services), while groups made in yaml do appear under actions. Using the notify.notify action with the target being the group results in "Failed to perform the action notify.notify. Unknown error"

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.8.1

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Container

Integration causing the issue

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Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/group

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[Barsonax]

I can confirm iam seeing the same behavior here. Seems its simply not in a working state yet.

[giinuu]

Can also confirm this issue happens for me, 2024.8.1

No obvious log errors, no failing requests or JS console errors.

[joostlek]

Please note that it's intended to group notify entities and that the majority of notify implementations still use notify services. For the services you still have to use the YAML groups

[Barsonax]

Please note that it's intended to group notify entities and that the majority of notify implementations still use notify services. For the services you still have to use the YAML groups

Ok didn't knew that.

Seems like the mobile homeassistant app only exposes services and no entities. So I guess that's changing soonish?

[joostlek]

There has been no action taken yet to start the migration, but they will eventually be migrated to the new notify entities yes

[giinuu]

I wonder if it is currently worth linking a note to the dev blog into the help section around notify groups, I can certainly see why there is confusion around this currently with the same naming convention.

E.g. something placed in this section;

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/group#notify-entity-groups

About

https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/04/10/new-notify-entity-platform/

[Morphy99]

There has been no action taken yet to start the migration, but they will eventually be migrated to the new notify entities yes

Is there any way to track progress on this as I'd like to be able to edit notify groups in the UI as well? I can't see any open issues on the companion github

[oerix]

Any update on this please? Kind of strange that this has been merged to stable build as incomplete.