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title: "PushOver"
description: "Instructions how to add user notifications to Home Assistant."
date: 2015-01-20 22:36
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logo: pushover.png
ha_category: Notifications
ha_release: pre 0.7
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The [PushOver service](https://pushover.net/) is a platform for the notify component. This allows components to send messages to the user using PushOver.

To use PushOver notifications, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  name: NOTIFIER_NAME
  platform: pushover
  api_key: ABCDEFGHJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ
  user_key: ABCDEFGHJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ
```

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*): This parameter is optional but should be configured, in order to get an API key you should go to https://pushover.net and register a new application.
- **user_key** (*Required*): To retrieve this value log into your account at https://pushover.net

This is a quote from the pushover website regarding free/open source apps:

<blockquote>
  If you are creating a client-side library, application, or open source project that will be redistributed and installed by end-users, you may want to require each of your users to register their own application rather than including your own API token with the software.
</blockquote>

When setting up the application you can use this [icon](https://home-assistant.io/images/favicon-192x192.png).