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Home Assistant

[Home Assistant] Send notification only when you are home or when you come home

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If you have a notification, which is only relevant for you when you are at home, it does not make sense to send it, if you are away. Instead, it would make sense to receive it the moment you get home.

To do this, simply add an Wait for a template action before sending the notification, with the following content. This can be done via YAML configuration

  - wait_template: "{{ is_state('person.nico', 'home') }}"
    continue_on_timeout: true

or via the web interface

If you are currently at home, means the entity status is already in the state home, it will be resolved immediately, otherwise it will wait until your status changes to home.

Home Assistant

[Home Assistant] Notify Groups

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Notify Groups are useful to send notifications to a group of devices or even to different channels like Home Assistant Companion App, Telegram, Signal etc.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/group/#notify-groups

I’m using it to create a group of Android Devices I want to send notifications to via the Companion App.

# Notify Groups
notify:
  - platform: group
    name: "family"
    services:
      - service: mobile_app_mi_8
      - service: mobile_app_redmi_note_8_pro

After that, go to Developer Tools and reload the Notify Services.

Now you should find a new notify service called “family” which can be used in automations.