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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.
Home Assistant currently supports a wide range of services for notifications. Please check the sidebar for a full list of platforms.
If your are running into troubles with your notification platform, a simple way to test it is to use Call Service from the Developer Tools. Choose your service (notify/xyz) from the list of Available services: and enter something like the sample below into the Service Data field and hit CALL SERVICE.
{"title":"Test", "message":"A simple test message from HA."}
This will send a single message to your notification platform configured in your configuration.yaml file.
{% linkable_title Examples %}
{% linkable_title Automation %}
Notifications are great to be used within Home Automation. Below is a an example configuration that you can add to your configuration.yaml file to be notified when the sun sets.
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.