---
title: Twilio
description: Instructions on how to add Twilio notifications to Home Assistant.
ha_category:
  - Hub
ha_release: '0.40'
ha_config_flow: true
ha_domain: twilio
---

The `twilio` integration enables the sending of notifications via SMS and the creation of calls with [Twilio](https://twilio.com).

A free trial account is available at [Twilio](https://twilio.com) website providing free calls to verified phone numbers.
Calls are limited to 10 minutes and will play a short trial message before your message runs. Upgraded accounts have no limitation.

## Configuration

To use this notification integration in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
twilio:
  account_sid: ACCOUNT_SID_FROM_TWILIO
  auth_token: AUTH_TOKEN_FROM_TWILIO
```

{% configuration %}
account_sid:
  description: "Your Twilio Account SID which can be found in your [console](https://www.twilio.com/console). It starts with the letters `AC`."
  required: true
  type: string
auth_token:
  description: "Your Twilio AUTH TOKEN which can be found in your [console](https://www.twilio.com/console). It should be directly under where you found the `account_sid`."
  required: true
  type: string
{% endconfiguration %}

### Usage

After configuring the base Twilio component, add and configure either or both of the [Twilio SMS](/integrations/twilio_sms) and [Twilio Phone](/integrations/twilio_call) integrations to utilize the notification functionality.

To be able to receive events from Twilio, your Home Assistant instance needs to be accessible from the web and you need to have the external URL [configured](/docs/configuration/basic) in Home Assistant..

To set it up, go to the integrations page in the configuration screen and find Twilio. Click on configure. Follow the instructions on the screen to configure Twilio.

You will get a URL of the following format: `https://<home-assistant-domain>/api/webhook/9940e99a26fae4dcf6fe0a478124b6b58b578ea4c55c9a584beb1c9f5057bb91`. To generate inbound events, you have to configure your webhooks with [Twilio](https://www.twilio.com/docs/glossary/what-is-a-webhook)

Events coming in from Twilio will be available as events in Home Assistant and are fired as `twilio_data_received`. The data specified by Twilio will be available as the event data. You can use this event to trigger automations.

You can then consume that information with the following automation:

```yaml
automation:
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: twilio_data_received
    event_data:
      action: call_service
  action:
    service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.office
```
