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Mastodon	Instructions on how to add Instapush notifications to Home Assistant.	mastodon.png	Notifications	0.67

The mastodon platform uses Mastodon to deliver notifications from Home Assistant.

Setup

Go to Preferences in the Mastodon web interface, then to Development and create a new application.

Configuration

To add Mastodon to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: mastodon
    access_token: !secret mastodon_access_token
    client_id: !secret mastodon_client_id
    client_secret: !secret mastodon_client_secret

{% configuration %} access_token: description: Your Mastodon access token. required: true type: string client_id: description: Your Mastodon client ID required: true type: string client_secret: description: Your Mastodon client secret. required: true type: string base_url: description: URL of the Mastodon instance to use. required: false type: string default: https://mastodon.social {% endconfiguration %}

To use notifications, please see the getting started with automation page.