--- layout: page title: "Notifications" description: "Instructions how to add user notifications to Home Assistant." date: 2015-01-20 22:36 sidebar: false comments: false sharing: true footer: true --- Home Assistant currently supports the awesome [PushBullet](https://www.pushbullet.com/), a free service to send information between your phones, browsers and friends. To add PushBullet to your installation, add the following to your `configuration.yaml` file: ``` notify: platform: pushbullet api_key: YOUR_API_KEY ``` ### Automation example 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. ``` automation: alias: Sun set notification platform: state state_entity_id: sun.sun state_from: above_horizon state_to: below_horizon execute_service: notify.notify service_data: {"message":"YAY"} ``` For more automation examples, see the [getting started with automation page]({{site_root}}/components/automation.html).