Can't seem to open urls
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2025 6:36 pm
Hello! Been using this amazing app a while and now I'm trying to make a universal "cast url to TV" system. The plan: when someone sends a "youtu" or a "twitch" etc link to a specific chat app on the TV, automation will read the notification and open the url that is the text of that notification.
Trigger:
- if that app's notification description text contains e.g. "youtu" (youtube.com, youtu.be etc)
(This works, temporarily verified with an action that opens a random app.)
Action:
(following the "Open a webpage" example: https://server47.de/automation/examples.html )
- Start another Program
- by action
- by startActivity()
- activity/action name: android.intent.action.VIEW
- Parameter Type: URI
- Parameter Name: IntentData
- Parameter Value: [notificationText]
- Press Add Intent Pair, Save.
The rule gets triggered, but doesn't work. I also tried with www.youtube.com instead of [notificationText], to debug, no response besides the toast message of starting the rule.
Not sure how to proceed. Perhaps as a last resort, if this method doesn't work, how could I do the equivalent by starting e.g. the NewPipe app and send it the url as a command?
Thanks!!
PS: running on Android 11
Trigger:
- if that app's notification description text contains e.g. "youtu" (youtube.com, youtu.be etc)
(This works, temporarily verified with an action that opens a random app.)
Action:
(following the "Open a webpage" example: https://server47.de/automation/examples.html )
- Start another Program
- by action
- by startActivity()
- activity/action name: android.intent.action.VIEW
- Parameter Type: URI
- Parameter Name: IntentData
- Parameter Value: [notificationText]
- Press Add Intent Pair, Save.
The rule gets triggered, but doesn't work. I also tried with www.youtube.com instead of [notificationText], to debug, no response besides the toast message of starting the rule.
Not sure how to proceed. Perhaps as a last resort, if this method doesn't work, how could I do the equivalent by starting e.g. the NewPipe app and send it the url as a command?
Thanks!!
PS: running on Android 11