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page Notifications Instructions how to add user notifications to Home Assistant. 2015-01-20 22:36 false false true true

One of the things most people want at some point in their home automation is to get notified when certain events occur. For this reason there is a notify component in Home Assistant.

Home Assistant currently supports a wide range of services for notifications:

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.NOTIFIER_NAME
  service_data: {"message":"YAY"}

For more automation examples, see the getting started with automation page.