Alert UI Configurator

Feature Requests
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Similar to automations and helpers, enable configuration of Alerts from the web interface.

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I also want to see alert states support templates. This will allow setting any condition for it to run, without having to rely on creating a template sensor

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Surprised to see this is not possible in the UI for automations. Please consider adding soon!

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Itā€™s curious that alerts canā€™t still be created/managed via the UI, while thatā€™s possible for almost everything else now (automations, scripts, scenes etc)

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Just adding on: it does seem odd that itā€™s possible to create relatively complex automations via the ui, but creating an ā€˜alert me if this temperature sensor goes over 25Cā€™ (which to the layperson seems a much simpler) requires a trip to configuration.yaml and possibly a template sensor as well!

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With the new focus on the UI this year of 2024, it would be nice to see Alerts get added in as well so we can manage that functionality without having to dive into the YAML.

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I have seen comments from core devs that Alerts are intended to be eventually deprecated and replaced by automations/blueprints, so I donā€™t think there is any interest in implementing new functionality for them.

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Are there any tutorials or guides for setting up an automation as an alert? If alerts are being deprecated Iā€™d rather use the new way if possible

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Are those comments visible in Discord or somewhere? I am interested in seeing them.

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Comments from github:

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Awesome, thanks for providing those! Thatā€™s pretty definitive and since its the same message from different people, very party-line. I will avoid sinking too much mental energy into alerts in the meantime and instead work with the automation feature

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Iā€™m very curious about this. Iā€™ve recently setup an alert via YAML and it was a very painful experience. Not that the feature itself was lacking, but just having to set it up with YAML and than needing to restart HA for every little change you makeā€¦

So apparently the plan is to replace the alerts feature with automations and blueprints. I wonder how that would work out. Apart from the way you need to configure it, the alert feature is actually quite powerful. It integrates well with the companion app, but can also use other notification mechanisms. It even has a mechanism for acknowledging alerts. I wonder if it will be possible to replace all that with automations.