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title: "Notifications"
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description: "Instructions how to add user notifications to Home Assistant."
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date: 2015-01-20 22:36
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---
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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.
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Home Assistant currently supports the awesome [PushBullet](https://www.pushbullet.com/), a free service to send information between your phones, browsers and friends.
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To add PushBullet to your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:
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```
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notify:
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platform: pushbullet
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api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
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```
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### Automation example
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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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```
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automation:
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alias: Sun set notification
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platform: state
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state_entity_id: sun.sun
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state_from: above_horizon
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state_to: below_horizon
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execute_service: notify.notify
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service_data: {"message":"YAY"}
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```
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For more automation examples, see the [getting started with automation page]({{site_root}}/components/automation.html).
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