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The rocketchat notify platform allows you to send messages to your Rocket.Chat instance from Home Assistant.

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

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

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - platform: rocketchat
    name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    url: https://rocketchat.example.com
    username: YOUR_USERNAME
    password: YOUR_PASSWORD
    room: YOUR_ROOM_NAME

• name (Optional): Name displayed in the frontend. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME.
• url (Required): The URL of your Rocket.Chat instance.
• username (Required): The Rocket.Chat username.
• password (Required): The Rocker.Chat password.
• room (Required): The chat room name to send messages to.

{% linkable_title script.yaml example %}

rocketchat_notification:
  sequence:
  - service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
    data:
      message: "Message to Rocket.Chat from Home Assistant!"
      data:
        emoji: ":smirk:"

{% linkable_title Message variables %}

• message (Required): Message to be displayed.
• data (Optional): Dictionary containing any of the variables defined in the Rocket.Chat docs

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