How to get Phone Push Notifications from Home Assistant - Tutorial

[@Klaus-macht-Bilder_de]

Good to see you back When I started HA last Feb your videos had been one of my main sources to learn about HA

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Oh, that's so cool to hear ❤️

[@glm4955]

Nice to see you back, if considering a part 2 I would love to see adding a picture to the notification. My security camera creates a snapshot based on motion and I'd really like to include the snapshot. Really appreciate your video's

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thanks! Yes, more people would like that. Not sure if this is possible, but I will definately dive in to this.

[@KaleoMgmt]

I was researching the SMTP Integration yesterday and saw that you can attach images in the email. Not an app notification, but it could be a possible workaround for you.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@KaleoMgmt well, I got it working with the notification at the moment. It's not perfect because the timing of the snapshot is a bit difficult with a ring doorbell, but when I click on the message it takes me to my camera dashboard in Home Assistant. Will try to create a video shortly.

[@onnodekker6799]

Nice to see you again! It's been a while. Nice video again. Next time a video on Actionable Notifications which gives you sound notifications on your mobile. If possible with Android.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Actually this video should do this. You will hear the sound of your home assistant companion app. Our do you mean sending like a mp3 to your phone that plays?

[@dmk1802]

No the actionable notification, for example "it is been a will since you left your door open, do you want me to close it? " if I say yes, it will close the door, if no, the door will remain open.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@dmk1802 oooh, that would be really nice to implement. I'm not sure if this is possible at the moment with push messages tbh.

[@onnodekker6799]

@@SmartHomeJunkie actually I mean the persistent notifications in Home Assistant.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@onnodekker6799 can you explain a little bit more? I'm not sure what you mean exactly.

[@peejayw]

Great to see you back, I have missed your clear and helpful videos, looking forward to more.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thank you so much for your kind words. 🙏🏻

[@SBinVancouver]

Thanks for this. One of the things I haven't figured out is how to make a notification (for example) based on compound conditions. For example, "Notify if the PIR sensor sees someone at the door, unless the the door sensor was recently activated".

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thx. What you might try is using a helper which stores the time that the door sensor was last triggered and use that helper in the condition section of your automation. This is how I do this

[@setmane]

Thk you for yr time and pls if have time i woul like more advanced feztures Thank you very much

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

You're very welcome. I will plan some more advanced features.

[@johndoudar6395]

Great to see you back.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@davidlangley833]

Awsome to see you back. I was concerned that you may have been a 'bad' covid stastic. Glad to see you are OK and look forward to more video's.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thank you David. I'm fine and never had Covid. It was just a mad house with work and my study. I am actually creating these videos too to find my study to become a music therapist and help people who are mentally ill. Really meaningful work. But, working, studying, having a family and creating videos is challenging sometimes.

[@davidheron1505]

Good to listen to your content again. It was informative and entertaining. I chuckled about the warning message when your girlfriend arrives home and appreciated the picture of Stonehenge as your phone screen save. A touch of class. The automatic link for the re-ordering of ink was a good taster for more sophisticated automations, which is a critical part of H.A. A video on the next level of notifications, therefore, would be a good idea and much appreciated.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Hahaha. Thank you. Will try to create more advanced notifications including showing a snapshot of your camera on motion for example.

[@MrJester23384689]

"Shall I say warning?"🤣🤣

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

😂😂😂

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

Maybe it is as with most tech guys, the girlfriend comes home unannounced: "Oh, no more automation scripts, can't you just watch porn like a normal guy" 😂

[@making-memories-nl]

Nice to see you back again. Thanks for this informational video again :)

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thank you!

[@BigBird2202]

Very helpful thank you very much

[@Steve61]

The weakness of the notify option is that you need to have the HA app on your phone. My wife does not want the app on her phone, so the only way to send a message to her would be to sign up for a third party SMS service. I know they can be cheap, but something in-house would be nicer.

[@KaleoMgmt]

What type of Notification would be "acceptable" if not from the App or SMS? I'm curious if HA could send an email as a notification. I believe there's a way to connect to Telegram if she has that app. This is a curious one. I'd love to hear what you end up doing!

[@Steve61]

@@KaleoMgmt SMS would be good, but I don’t see how you can do that in HA - without buying a 3rd party service.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Indeed, you can use Telegram for instance, but that's an app too.... Other solution might be too send a voice message to your Google Home or Alexa speaker, but those are listening all day to what you say. Not sure what's the best option for your wife.

[@KaleoMgmt]

Another option could be to use the SMTP Integration and notify via email. You could probably even send an SMS via email.

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

In my view, it is a little bit more "a weakness of your wife". Saying "I want all the functionality for free, but not with any extra apps whatsoever" is asking for too much IMO. I'm not disrespecting your wife, but it is a bit like eating the cookie and still have it to me. I don't feel like the HA app is more "unprivate" or "unsecure" than any other app.

[@paulpringle6441]

Thanks for a great video

[@davidwentireland]

Hi, Where have you been???????

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Yeah, very busy year..... Sooooo sorry.....

[@davidwentireland]

@@SmartHomeJunkie Ek is net bly jy is OK.

[@jeppenielsen5898]

Nice to see you back ed 😀

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thx Jeppe. Laat year was very busy. I am planning to create more videos now.

[@michiel2797]

Goed dat u weer terug bent!!

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thx Michiel. Fijn dat je me steunt!

[@HoGalant]

Happy to see you created new videos!

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thank you so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@MrDVG1990]

Could you share the sunrise sunset card on your lovelace dashboard? That looks really cool!

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Haha! You can install it through HACS as frontend integration. It's really simple.

[@MrDVG1990]

@@SmartHomeJunkie ah i found it. Thanks! :)

[@mikegodin23]

Perfect. Thank you.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Glad you like it!

[@xtremeideaz]

Welcome Back! Where have you been? Its been ages!

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

I know!!! Last year was really busy with work and study, but I finally found time to create videos again. There will definately be more coming.

[@malikramirez5728]

Nice to see content from you again :)

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thank you for your kind words. I will try to create more again.

[@loovanloon3884]

Can you do a video on the following? Automation goal: DRY programming (Don’t Repeat Yourself) I want to have quite a lot zone notifications sent to my devices. But not a lot of automations. I want to keep it DRY. So I thought to put multiple “person” triggers per zone event (“enters”) and have the notification message filled with a template. I don’t want to make the “same automation” for each person individually. My aim in human-words / pseudo-code will be : When person Jacqueline or person Ton leaves zone Den Haag, send notification with message “{{person}} leaves {{zone}}” to group. This is my automation so far: alias: "Notify Location: Den Haag - Leaves >> group JacqTon" description: "Notify Location: Den Haag - Leaves >> group JacqTon" trigger: - platform: zone entity_id: person.jacqueline zone: zone.den_haag event: leave - platform: zone entity_id: person.ton zone: zone.den_haag event: leave condition: [] action: - service: notify.jacqton data: message: "{{ person_name }} leaves {{ zone_status}}" title: "Location update {{ person_name }} leaves {{ zone_status}}" mode: single Output of automation: “leaves” Wished for output: “Ton leaves Den Haag” or “Jacqueline leaves Den Haag” - depending on who triggered Problem: The notification is sent, but the message shows “leaves” , it doesn’t resolve the templates {{ person_name }} and {{ zone_status}} I guess because the automation does not know which one to take in the conditions part I cannot ( or don’t know how to) select “if a certain person has triggerd” Questions: What template attributes can I use to get this information? In pseudo-code something like “triggered.person_name” or “triggered.zone_status” or “this.person_name” Or is my approach bassically worng? What would be a better approach?

[@hachogonzalez8649]

I have 10 motion sensors, i want to "arm" them when i go away and have a notification on my phone showing what name of the sensor that was triggered

[@KaleoMgmt]

Just finished something similar today. I created a 'binary_sensor' Group for my Door/Window sensors. If anything in that group is open, then 'binary_sensor.doors_windows' (the name of the Group) is set to On. I'm using that state change as the Trigger, then using the Template for each of the individual sensors so that I can find out exactly which one caused the Group State change. The Message Template looks like: {% if states("binary_sensor.lumi_door_back_on_off")=="on" -%}The Back Door is Open.{%- endif %} {% if states("binary_sensor.lumi_door_front_on_off")=="on" -%}The Front Door is Open.{%- endif %} {% if states("binary_sensor.lumi_window_dining_room_1_on_off")=="on" -%}The Front Dining Room Window is Open.{%- endif %} There's probably a cleaner way to iterate through the sensors, but this works for now!

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Totally doable, even in one automation with trigger IDs. I will create a video about trigger IDs in the near future.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@Chris Yes, it can be done way cleaner using trigger ID'S.

[@KaleoMgmt]

@@SmartHomeJunkie That would be amazing! I'm just now jumping into yaml edits and variables, so I'm still figuring things out. My coding background is all PHP and MySQL, so I'm trying to "translate" some ideas.

[@therealsprint]

Hey there, is it possible to add a symbol or picture INSTEAD of the message/title in the HA companion app (Android)? I've read everywhere but found nothing, I could format the text a little bit (HTML codes) but thats all. I want to polish my notification I get if something is put into my mailbox in front of my house. In the data section I can put another symbol, ok, but can it used in the textbox too?

[@thorsten_w]

Cool, thank you very much

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thank you for watching and for your kind words! Your support means a lot to me.

[@prasadgosavi6394]

Thanks for video...I am following your videos to setup HA. I am new to HA so your videos quite helpful. If you know how can i setup etwist (Remeha) thermostat in HA that will be really helpful. I see that etwist is mainly used in NL, so i didn't find much more info on HA community. Hope you can help me.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Hi Prasad, I do not own an eTwist Thermostat myself, so I'm afraid I cannot really help you unfortunately :(

[@AndrewBPowers]

Thank you for your video. Great work and very helpful... ! :-)

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Glad it was helpful!

[@repomannv]

Good tutorial, thank you! As for the girlfriend (or maybe ex-girlfriend now), maybe use "Notice:" instead of "Warning!!!!" 🙂

[@FrankGraffagnino]

i would love to use the home assistant app for notifications for family members, but there is no reasonable way to have permissions or configuration per user. I can't have young family members or guests seeing all sorts of tabs and options for logs and also other lovelace cards.

[@KaleoMgmt]

Another idea would be to use Twilio. That way you can send an Text alert rather than just an app notification. I have that set up so I can send importants alerts to my wife (medication time, traveling, etc.) via Text, and inconsequential alerts (washer or dryer are finished) via Notifications. If you wanted an alert sent to the kids you could send it via Text, and not need to worry about the app.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

You can create notification groups and send a notification to a specific group if you like.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

You can hide certain tabs on your dashboard per user I believe.

[@FrankGraffagnino]

@@SmartHomeJunkie if so, make a video and show us. Or paste it here.

[@KaleoMgmt]

Setting someone as a "User" limits the side menu option, and in the Manage Dashboard page you can set Dashboards to "Admin Only". We have a User dashboard called "Guest Phones". I set it up for our babysitter so that she can kill the lights or run scenes, timers, etc. when she's getting the kids ready for bed. I agree, though, it would be nice to have deeper permission option for Users.

[@Notmy00000]

Kan het ook andersom, van de telefoon. naar home assistent zodat er een lamp aan gaat wanneer er een bericht binnen komt of de lader van je apple watch wordt uit geschakeld

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Dat zou ik niet weten eerlijk gezegd. Ng niet geprobeerd.

[@Notmy00000]

@@SmartHomeJunkie ik zelf denk dat er op een iPhones. eerst met opdrachten een flow moet gemaakt worden, maar hoe dat moet ????

[@ronaldmerema4216]

Hello, I have a question. I want to add the notifications but i don't have a device for notification to my mobile phone. How is did possible? it looks like homeassistant don't see my mobile android phone (Galaxy S22) do you know what i have to do ? so i can sent notifications to my phone?, and i have installed the companion app.

[@gerthjan]

Hey bedankt voor je duidelijke video's. Ik zag dat je ook een notificatie gemaakt hebt voor welke bak er aan de weg moet. Zou jij deze kunnen/willen delen? Ik ben er zelf mee aan het stoeien, dat ik de dag ervoor een melding op mijn telefoon wil krijgen welke bak ik aan de weg moet zetten. Maar ik loop steeds vast. Thanks, en ga door met het maken van de informatieve videos

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Hope this helps: alias: 'Notify: Send message if garbage needs to be put at the street' description: '' trigger: - platform: time at: '19:00:00' condition: - condition: state entity_id: sensor.afvalwijzer_days_until_collection_date state: '1' action: - data: title: Afvalwijzer message: Morgen wordt het {{ states("sensor.afvalwijzer_next_type") }} opgehaald. service: notify.mobile_app_iphone_x_ed mode: single

[@gerthjan]

Top dank je wel! Ik ga ermee aan de slag!

[@Notmy00000]

Bedankt 🙏 👍👍👍

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Graag gedaan!

[@vaughanza]

Hi , Thanks for a great video. Please can you explain why my Back Door does not show up under devices ? I only see it under entities as a Binary_sensor ? Is there a way to change it to a device ?, thanks

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Not sure, probably because of the type of device. But you can still use it in automations of you catch the state of the entity.

[@vaughanza]

@@SmartHomeJunkie Thanks

[@Klaus-macht-Bilder_de]

Is there any possibility to play a sound on the device instead of a message?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

You can send sounds to a smart speaker like Google Home or Alexa. I don't think you can send it to your phone.

[@CrazyAngelfire]

Can you make a video on how to add and configure a Synology And to home assistant. There's a certain step that I can't figure out on other videos.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Hi Darren, I do have A Synology NAS integrated in my Home Assistant. You should be able to do this with the default integration, but maybe I'm missing something. What exactly would you like to achieve?

[@CrazyAngelfire]

@@SmartHomeJunkie just monitor the details like cpu and temp on the dashboard. i have tried to use the default integration but it asks for "host" and i cant figure out how to proceed. Also thank you for your videos, i am very new to home assistant i.e. a week old now lol. and your light animations have help so much. thank you

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@CrazyAngelfire Ah! The host is the ip-address of your Synology NAS I believe.

[@CrazyAngelfire]

@@SmartHomeJunkie AHH!! Thank you. keep making those videos they are so helpful

[@mjkl9658]

How to get that notification only when you are/arrived home?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Yes, this can be done with a condition that checks of your state is "home"

[@vacob6494]

🤣 I like gf arrive home warning...

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

😂😂😂

[@niravpatel2468]

Nice videos. What software do you use to record your tutorials and to show your phone screen?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Nowadays I use Davinci Resolve.

[@GosZk]

Dank voor je video's Smart Home Junkie! Voor mij als beginner is dit echt heel leerzaam. Het stukje variabele meldingen aanmaken via YAML, zoals meldingen bij trager internet internet, begrijp ik nog niet. Is dat in een tekstje berichtje makkelijk uit te leggen? Of heb je anders een linkje? Ik zag ook dat je meldingen lijkt te krijgen als er nieuwe apparaten verbinding maken met je netwerk. Daar ben ik ook benieuwd naar :)

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Graag gedaan. Ik ga nog een video maken over variabelen waarin ik dit uitgebreid uit zal leggen.

[@GosZk]

@@SmartHomeJunkie heb het gevonden en het werkt :) Wil ook graag een melding wanneer er een nieuwe Wifi verbinding wordt gemaakt in het netwerk. Dat zou toch moeten kunnen? Kunt u een tip geven in welke richting ik de juiste 'Trigger' kan vinden? Ik zou 'Gebeurtenis' zeggen maar kom in die richting niet heel ver.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@GosZk Ik denk dat je een integration voor je router moet installeren die dat kan detecteren. Ik weet niet wat je router is een of er een integration voor bestaat.

[@2-os2nq]

thank you so much for the video, video was helpful to make a notification automation:) I have a question. I used it to notify me when the curtain is opened by the presence sensor automations in the morning.(between 7 to 9 AM) how can I stop notificafion after the curtain is finished opening? it keeps sending "curtain has been opened" but I don't know how to send the message only ONCE.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

You probably trigger on the wrong trigger. I think you should trigger on the state of the curtain. Or is it opening and closing multiple times?

[@2-os2nq]

ah ha!! you are right. I was triggering by the presence... silly me :( hahaha... thank you for the reply!!!

[@HaydeBitter]

Is het ook mogelijk om een melding te krijgen met daarin een keuze mogelijkheid? Bijvoorbeeld of ik het alarm wel of niet wil inschakelen?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Jazeker. Zie deze video: How to use Actionable Notifications in Home Assistant to Alert for Empty Printer Cartridges kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJytpXeghK92eNk

[@johnrobertson6338]

I would like to set up a notification that would let me know if my garage door is still open at a specific time such as 8:00 pm or sunset etc. Not often, but the garage door has been accidentally left open all night.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Definitely possible by using a door sensor (see my list of devices) and an automation that checks if the door sensor is still open at specific times.

[@peledudok]

Hi, Geprobeerd om het zelfde te configureren. Weet je toevallig waarom ik geen lijst zie bij geurtenis uitvoeren-gebeurtenis?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Heb je de Home Assistant Companion app op je telefoon geïnstalleerd?

[@peledudok]

@@SmartHomeJunkie ja die heb ik geïnstalleerd. Moet daar iets in geconfigureerd worden‽

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@peledudok Nee, ik dacht dat je bedoelde dat je de lijst van telefoons niet ziet?

[@peledudok]

@@SmartHomeJunkie die zag ik ook niet. Moest wel wat aanpassen in companion

[@mandeepmails]

Hi Ed, i'm sure you could do anything with HA. your ALL videos are great quality to build the foundation required by anyone to get moving. Truly appreciate your work ;-) For few weeks i've been trying to get the 2 minute thing working but unable to do so, may be you can help or guide me with what i'm doing wrong. Scenarios is i'm willing to automate the telegram notifications from the HA+Frigate that've built. so far only i've been able to use the Developer tools to call service Telegram bot send video or clip but not via the yaml itself.( nothing gets triggered. simply i want to only use the telegram bot to send me Notification+Media (the image/clip) if anything gets detected as an event.. i've been through the HA guides which are very neat and clean but considering my limited knowledge on jinja2 templates or yaml (deep knowledge) i am stuck... could you please help.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thank you for your kind words. I guess you already went through this: www.home-assistant.io/integrations/telegram/ I will put it on my list for a video.

[@mandeepmails]

@@SmartHomeJunkie yes Ed, I did. And trust I would’ve been the happiest guy on this planet if I was able to get it. But here I am. Question - we can make entities on our own for what we’re planning to achieve ? Another Question, if using developer tool we know telegram bot integration is working. And we’ve a blueprint for the same, how can we utilise that ? Reason there’s one related to this by “hunter jim” which is there on HA mentioned and appreciated by folks but I couldn’t use it to trigger the automations. Which led me to believe it’s the automations.yml that I need to fix

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@mandeepmails Not sure. I never used the Telegram integration before, but I will check it out and create a video about it too help people that use it.

[@mandeepmails]

@@SmartHomeJunkie yeah that will be awesome. I find this topic very hot

[@benilev7328]

Do I need to install home assistant companion app .installaled in every phone to make notification. for exmple 6 phones. Or is there another way?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

You need to install the companion app indeed. But, there's also a possibility to send a mage via Telegram for instance. This is still on my list to create a video about.

[@benilev7328]

thanks

[@nikhils6089]

I've setup an irritation system in my garden whose pump is connected to a smart wifi switch. Some times, Google home shows the device "offline" even when the device is online and can be controlled with the native Android app (smart life). Is there a way to get a push notification on the Google home app itself for the automation events which triggers the garden pump to be "on" and "off" at a set time? Grateful for your advice. Thanks

[@Krypt000n]

I love the idea of an irritation system. I have one in the form of three cats.

[@RvdB82]

Can you send some alarm sounds to the telephone ?

[@jost459]

Yes, this is usefull if you have water in the basement. How could a water sensor bring an alarm sound to the mobile phone?

[@paulhyland3528]

Great video as always, so ive made some notifications based on my location via zones. I found if i sit in my location for to long eg a train station my devices are getting sent multiple notifications especially the wifes phone "paul has arrived at station" is there a way to send only one notification?? thanks

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Interesting! It might be that your triggers and conditions need some tweaking for this. That's my best guess. You can also use a toggle helper that you can set to on once a message has been sent en is set to off again once you leave the zone. And then use that helper as condition in your notify automation, but that seems a bit much.

[@paulhyland3528]

@@SmartHomeJunkie thanks for such a quick response Ill have play thanks for your advice

[@protoTYPElab44]

Hi, just found this video. I have a question, can you reset the app notification, mine has reached the limit og 500.

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Ow, I never experienced this issue tbh. No clue.

[@protoTYPElab44]

@@SmartHomeJunkie i figure it out thank you

[@protoTYPElab44]

@@SmartHomeJunkie i read the documentation and found out that it resets at midnight and a max of 500 notifications are allowable per day

[@bgable7707]

Question, these notifications only work if you are within your wifi network range, correct? Or are you using a cloud service to get them while you are away?

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Yes, they work also if you can connect remotely. You can use Nabu Casa or DuckDNS work nginx reverse proxy for this.

[@roycejamie8250]

@@SmartHomeJunkie Just used DuckDNS to set up dynamic dns + nginx for ssl connections and it's working great so far. Nginx only accepts https connections over port 8124, port forwarded the same port in my router and now the only traffic allowed over my dynamic dns url is my secure Home Assistant Traffic. Thanks for the idea!

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

@@roycejamie8250 That's great!

[@protoTYPElab44]

My home assistant app do not send anymore app notification because of the limit even if the automatiin is triggered

[@bgable7707]

What service is applying the limit ??? What is the err msg and if is from home assistant of your cell phone provider.

[@protoTYPElab44]

@@bgable7707 i figured it out, it resets in midnight, 500 notif per day is allowable in the app, i was testing some sensor and not knowingly i consumed all the 500, there is no error messages in the logs btw

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

I'm glad that you figured it out

[@Auld_Moaner]

👍

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Thanks!

[@Jcarlier50]

very interesting.. can you explain the "media_player.play_media" to send a mp3 file. i got always the error 'Sorry, text to speech can only be called with the notify.alexa_media service' maybe because i am in amazon.fr.. thanks

[@SmartHomeJunkie]

Yes, I can! I have this working in multiple automations myself on Google Home.