Hi,
I am getting started with HA. I would like to get notified/alerted in certain circumstances, e.g. if windows are left open for too long, humidity levels are excessive, a water leak sensor triggers etc.
Now I am wondering how to best do this. There are notifications, which can be configured in quite a bit of detail (cf. Introduction | Home Assistant Companion Docs).
There also is the Alert integration (Alert - Home Assistant).
I am wondering what exactly the Alerts have as a distinguishing feature. They can trigger in intervals, but other than that I don’t understand how they are different from notifications. Plus, they need to be configured in YAML as far as I can see, while notifications are easier to use in the GUI.
Is the Alert integration slowly steering towards deprecation?