From 95ee4dd20faff608ff6d8e64e8af117767226316 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabian Affolter Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:22:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add section about Developer tools and make titles linkable --- source/_components/notify.markdown | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/_components/notify.markdown b/source/_components/notify.markdown index 25cc13e7bd0..eecd3eccf7f 100644 --- a/source/_components/notify.markdown +++ b/source/_components/notify.markdown @@ -13,9 +13,19 @@ One of the things most people want at some point in their home automation is to Home Assistant currently supports a wide range of services for notifications. Please check the sidebar for a full list of platforms. -### Automation example +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**. -Notifications are great to be used within Home Automation. Below is a an example configuration that you can add to your `configuration.yaml` to be notified when the sun sets. +```json +{"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. ```yaml automation: