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title: "Jabber (XMPP)"
description: "Instructions how to add Jabber (XMPP) notifications to Home Assistant."
date: 2015-05-08 18:00
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ha_category: Notifications
ha_release: pre 0.7
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The `xmpp` platform allows you to deliver notifications from Home Assistant to a [Jabber (XMPP)](http://xmpp.org) account.

To enable Jabber notifications in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: xmpp
    sender: YOUR_JID
    password: YOUR_JABBER_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD
    recipient: YOUR_RECIPIENT
```

Configuration variables:

- **name** (*Optional*): Setting the optional parameter `name` allows multiple notifiers to be created. The default value is `notify`. The notifier will bind to the service `notify.NOTIFIER_NAME`.
- **sender** (*Required*): The Jabber ID (JID) that will act as origin of the messages. Add your JID including the domain, eg. your_name@jabber.org.
- **password** (*Required*): The password for your given Jabber account.
- **recipient** (*Required*): The Jabber ID (JID) that will receive the messages.
- **tls** (*Optional*): Allow to disable TLS. Defaults to `true`.

All Jabber IDs (JID) must include the domain. Make sure that the password matches the account provided as sender.

To use notifications, please see the [getting started with automation page](/getting-started/automation/).
