Add sensor value to notification message

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I’ve got this example event set up, to show an notification on my tablet frontend (using tileboard):

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Look like that on my tablet:

warning

As you can see, the message does not appear as intended. What I’d like to see is the content of this variable (yellow marker in screenshot):

states

How can I add an attribute of the sensor state to the JSON message?

Thanks for any help!

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You probably need to use {{states.sensor.**sensor-name**.state}} to get the desired value parsed into a template.

There is a very usefull feature in HA to test these things out. It’s called Template editor and its found in the side bar under Developer tools.
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Go there, delete the existing code and paste yours, see what the result is, and go from there.

Edit: the template editor has been now moved to Developer Tools - > Template editor tab

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It works in the template editor:

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But unfortunately, if I use the same message format in the event:

{
   "command": "notify",
   "message": "{{states.sensor.dwd_weather_warnings_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_headline }}"
}

it still looks like that :frowning:

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Try removing the quotes?

{
   "command": "notify",
   "message": {{states.sensor.dwd_weather_warnings_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_headline }}
}
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Without quotes: Error parsing JSON: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: expected property name or '}' at line 3 column 17 of the JSON data

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I dont know how tileboard notifications work,
Maybe you need to open another bracket in the json and give it some data_template in order to parse the template data?

Here’s how my automations work with html5 notifications, maybe it’ll help you out:

...
  action:
  - data_template:
      message: Stella has left the house {{ now().strftime('%H:%M')}}
      title: Presence
    service: notify.notify_html5
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I don’t think the automation editor supports templates. You will have to write it in yaml.

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it supports templates

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As far as I can see, I’m using the same syntax:

{
   "command": "notify",
   "message":  "{{ states.sensor.dwd_weather_warnings_current_warning_level.state }}"
}

So it probably is a problem with the TileBoard component?

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I tried many different variations in YAML, without success.

e.g.:

  action:
  - event: tileboard
    event_data:
      command: notify
      icon: mdi-weather-lightning-rainy
      id: dwd_warnung
      lifetime: '28800'
      data_template:
        message: 'State {{ states.sensor.dwd_weather_warnings_current_warning_level.state }}'
      title: Wetterwarnung
      type: warning
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For what it’s worth, here’s my (working) automation rule:

  action:
    - service: switch.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.sonoff_*hidden*
    - service: notify.debug
      data:
        message: "DEBUG ToTheLiving - Timer finished, lamp is going out again. Bowlamp: {{ states.switch.sonoff_*hidden*.state }}"

I’m using simplepush as a notification platform.

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your var need to be like this!
{{ states(‘PUT_YOUR_ENTITY_HERE’) }}

:slight_smile:
Hope that you still looking for an anwser :wink:

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13

Hello,
I’m new to this board and quite new to HASS, but I’m loving this system and loving this community, especially this thread, because now I found a way to monitor the tracker of my dog.

Have a nice day.

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Welcome, enjoy :smiley:

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As the answer is not here and I have been searching for it for hours you need to use this:
state_attr(‘sensor.livingroom’, ‘Battery numeric’)

So do not use states.

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This worked for me! Thanks :slight_smile:

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I know your Question is Years old but hopefully this can help others too.

First you should check the Sensor in Developer Tools → States.

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Then head over to Developer Tools → Template to play around.

Shows the State
{{ states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.state }}

Shows all Attributes
{{ states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes }}

Shows only one Attributes
{{ states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_headline }}

Now you can do something like this, it may look complicated but try to one value at the time

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{{ states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_headline }} in {{ states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.region_name }}. {{ states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_description }}
{% if as_timestamp(states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_start) | timestamp_custom('%Y-%m-%d') == now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') %}
Von heute {{ as_timestamp(states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_start) | timestamp_custom('%I:%M') }} bis {{ as_timestamp(states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_end) | timestamp_custom('%I:%M') }}
{% else  %}
Vom {{ as_timestamp(states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_start) | timestamp_custom('%I:%M (%d.%m)') }} bis {{ as_timestamp(states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_end) | timestamp_custom('%I:%M (%d.%m)') }}
{% endif %}

{% if states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_instruction != none %}
  Es gibt folgende Hinweiße: {{ states.sensor.wetter_warnungen_kreis_garmisch_partenkirchen_current_warning_level.attributes.warning_1_instruction }}
{% endif %}
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This is perfect. Thanks. Just what I needed to learn.

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Hi, that worked for my sensor too. But how do I learn this. Is there a guide for that? I’m other programming software you get suggestions when you type the dot. Will this come to HA as well?

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I have been trying to do this for alexa notification where the text for the notification message comes from the value of a template sensor. After several attemps, finally the below worked for me. Hopefully can be of help to someone else trying to do the same:

service: notify.alexa_media_kannan_s_2nd_echo_dot_2
data:
  data:
    type: tts
  message: "{{states(\"sensor.front_door_people_announce\")}}"

So you have to put the backslah before the quotes.