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title: "SendGrid"
description: "Instructions how to add email notifications via SendGrid to Home Assistant."
date: 2016-02-27 18:00
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ha_category: Notifications
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The `sendgrid` notification platform sends email notifications via [SendGrid](https://sendgrid.com/), a proven cloud-based email platform.

To enable notification emails via SendGrid in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  name: NOTIFIER_NAME
  platform: sendgrid
  api_key: API_KEY
  sender: SENDER_EMAIL_ADDRESS
  recipient: YOUR_RECIPIENT
```

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`.
- **api_key** (*Required*): SendGrid API key - https://app.sendgrid.com/settings/api_keys
- **sender** (*Required*): E-mail address of the sender.
- **recipient** (*Required*): Recipient of the notification.

To use notifications, please see the [getting started with automation page]({{site_root}}/components/automation/).
