Add notification message as parameter in restful notify configuration

Configuration
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Hi, I configured a rest notification in my HA that sends a notification to Alexa using notify me on a certain trigger. The configuration looks like this:

notify:
  - name: SmallBathRoomNotification
    platform: rest
    resource: https://api.notifymyecho.com/v1/NotifyMe?notification='Bathroom%202%20Window%20has%20been%20open%20for%20more%20than%2010%20minutes!'&accessCode=<my_alexa_access_token>

The notification is working fine, but as you can see I’m adding the message as part of the endpoint in the configuration.

I want get the message from the automation action itself instead of adding it in the configuration, so the question is how to add message from the automation action as a parameter in the notify resource?

In other words, can I change the configuration to something like:

notify:
  - name: SmallBathRoomNotification
    platform: rest
    resource: https://api.notifymyecho.com/v1/NotifyMe?notification=<message>&accessCode=<my_alexa_access_token>

where = replaces with the message given in the automation action?

Thanks for help.

2

Not sure how this works with Alexa, but normally you set the message parameter in your notification, like so:

- name: notification_persistent
  platform: rest
  resource: 'http://localhost:8123/api/services/persistent_notification/create'
  method: POST_JSON
  headers:
    authorization: !secret hass_access_token_persistent_notification
    content-type: 'application/json'
  message_param_name: message
  title_param_name: title
  target_param_name: target

Maybe this helps in your case as well. :slight_smile:

EDIT: Forgot, you then call this notification with message as a parameter:

- platform: group
  name: notification_level_1
  services: 
    - service: notification_persistent
      data_template:
        message: "{{ message }}"
        title: "{{ title }}"
        target: "{{ notification_id }}"
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Does this mean that the post message will have these 3 kyes and their values?

  • message_param_name
  • title_param_name
  • target_param_name

What if I want the post message to have different key names than those?
like:

  • notification
  • accessCode