Notifications

One of the things most people want at some point in their home automation is to get notified when certain events occur. For this reason there is a notify component in Home Assistant.

Home Assistant currently supports a wide range of services for notifications:

• E-Mail
• File
• Instapush
• Jabber (XMPP)
• Notify My Android (NMA)
• PushBullet
• PushOver
• Slack
• Syslog

Automation example

Notifications are great to be used within Home Automation. Below is a an example configuration that you can add to your configuration.yaml to be notified when the sun sets.

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automation:
  alias: Sun set notification

  platform: state
  state_entity_id: sun.sun
  state_from: above_horizon
  state_to: below_horizon

  execute_service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
  service_data: {"message":"YAY"}

For more automation examples, see the getting started with automation page.