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title: "File notification support"
description: "Instructions how to add file notifications to Home Assistant."
date: 2015-06-22 10:00
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The file platform allows you to store notifications from Home Assistant as a file.

To enable file notifications in your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  name: NOTIFIER_NAME
  platform: file
  filename: FILENAME
  timestamp: 1 or 0
```

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`.

Setting `timestamp` to 1 adds a timestamp to every entry.

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