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 the awesome PushBullet, a free service to send information between your phones, browsers and friends.

To add PushBullet to your installation, add the following to your home-assistant.conf file:

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[notify]
platform=pushbullet
api_key=YOUR_API_KEY

Automation example

Notifications are great to be used within Home Automation. Below is a an example configuration that you can add to your home-assistant.conf 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.