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title: "Command line"
description: "Instructions how to add command line notifications to Home Assistant."
date: 2016-02-22 20:00
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ha_category: Notifications
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The `command_line` platform allows you to use external tools for notifications from Home Assistant.

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

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  name: NOTIFIER_NAME
  platform: command_line
  command: "espeak -vmb/mb-us1"
```

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`.
- **command** (*Required*): The action to take.

To use notifications, please see the [getting started with automation page]({{site_root}}/components/automation/).