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<p>One of the things that was missing in Home Assistant for a while was a way to communicate with users. Wouldn&rsquo;t it be nice to get a message when important events happen like the lights being turned on while no one is home? Since the Home Assistant frontend runs as a web application on the phone, we have no way to bring ourselves to the front. This is where the new notify component comes in, powered by PushBullet.</p>
<p>The new notify component will take in messages and tells them to the user. For now this will be powered by the very awesome <a href="https://www.pushbullet.com/">PushBullet</a> but any other messaging platform can be easily added.</p>
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A message triggered by the simple_alarm component is shown by PushBullet on the Moto360.
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<p>Read on to learn how to enable the notify component and integrate it with other components.</p>
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<h3>Enabling the notify component</h3>
<p>To enable the new notify component, add the following to your <code>home-assistant.conf</code>:</p>
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<p>You can get your api key from <a href="https://www.pushbullet.com/account">your account page on PushBullet.com</a>.</p>
<h3>Sending messages from your component</h3>
<p>To be able to send messages, the notify component has to be loaded and initialized successfully.</p>
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