Home Assistant

Notifications

The PushOver service is a platform for the notify component. This allows components to send messages to the user using PushOver.

To use PushOver notifications, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

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# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
    platform: pushover
    # Get this by registering a new application on https://pushover.net
    api_key: ABCDEFGHJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ
    # Get this by logging into your account on https://pushover.net
    user_key: ABCDEFGHJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ

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

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

James Cole has contributed the PushOver platform.