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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:

# 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.