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title: "Notifications"
description: "Instructions how to add user notifications to Home Assistant."
date: 2015-01-20 22:36
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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:
- [Instapush](/components/notify.instapush.html)
- [Notify My Android (NMA)](/components/notify.nma.html)
- [PushBullet](/components/notify.pushbullet.html)
- [PushOver](/components/notify.pushover.html)
- [E-Mail](/components/notify.smtp.html)
- [Syslog](/components/notify.syslog.html)
- [Jabber (XMPP)](/components/notify.xmpp.html)
### 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).