diff --git a/homeassistant/components/notify/pushover.py b/homeassistant/components/notify/pushover.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3ebd9030683
--- /dev/null
+++ b/homeassistant/components/notify/pushover.py
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+"""
+Pushover platform for notify component.
+
+Configuration:
+
+To use the Pushover notifier you will need to add something like the following
+to your config/configuration.yaml
+
+notify:
+    platform: pushover
+    user_key: ABCDEFGHJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ
+
+VARIABLES:
+
+user_key
+*Required
+To retrieve this value log into your account at http://pushover.com
+
+"""
+import logging
+
+from homeassistant.helpers import validate_config
+from homeassistant.components.notify import (
+    DOMAIN, ATTR_TITLE, BaseNotificationService)
+
+_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+_API_TOKEN = 'a99PmRoFWhchykrsS6MQwgM3mPdhEv'
+
+def get_service(hass, config):
+    """ Get the pushover notification service. """
+
+    if not validate_config(config,
+                           {DOMAIN: ['user_key']},
+                           _LOGGER):
+        return None
+
+    try:
+        # pylint: disable=unused-variable
+        from pushover import Client
+
+    except ImportError:
+        _LOGGER.exception(
+            "Unable to import pushover. "
+            "Did you maybe not install the 'python-pushover.py' package?")
+
+        return None
+
+    try:
+        return PushoverNotificationService(config[DOMAIN]['user_key'])
+
+    except InvalidKeyError:
+        _LOGGER.error(
+            "Wrong API key supplied. "
+            "Get it at https://www.pushover.com")
+
+
+# pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
+class PushoverNotificationService(BaseNotificationService):
+    """ Implements notification service for Pushover. """
+
+    def __init__(self, user_key):
+        from pushover import Client
+        self.user_key = user_key
+        self.pushover = client = Client(self.user_key, api_token=_API_TOKEN)
+
+    def send_message(self, message="", **kwargs):
+        """ Send a message to a user. """
+
+        title = kwargs.get(ATTR_TITLE)
+
+        self.pushover.send_message(message, title=title)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c4b2160c38c..9f0352ccef1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -36,3 +36,6 @@ pydispatcher>=2.0.5
 
 # sensor.systemmonitor 
 psutil>=2.2.1
+
+#pushover notifications
+python-pushover>=0.2
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