Automation not working- please help

Configuration
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please help me with simple automation, I don’t know what to do. I want to receive a notification on my mobile when I turn on the bathroom fan. It keeps giving me an error :-(. I’m using Shellymini to turn on the fan. The code I’m entering is this: -alias: Notification - bathroom fan on
description: Sends a notification when the bathroom fan turns on
trigger:

  • platform: state
    entity_id: switch.shelly1minig3_84fce63bfe58
    to: “on”
    action:
  • service: notify.mobile_app_iphone_pet
    data:
    title: “Bathroom fan”
    message: “The fan just turned on :dash:”
    mode: single
2

Please follow Community Question Guideline #11 by properly formatting you configuration code. This is important so we can see if their is a syntax issues and to avoid errors that can be caused by the copy/paste process.

3

Hi, sorry, I’m attaching here how I have it in HA, but it doesn’t work. Can you think of where the error could be? I tried the action, send a notification to the mobile phone and it works great. I don’t know.

- alias: Upozorneni - ventilator koupelna zapnut
  description: Pošle notifikaci, když se zapne ventilátor v koupelně
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: switch.shelly1minig3_84fce63bfe58
      to: "on"
  action:
    - service: notify.mobile_app_iphone_pet
      data:
        title: "Ventilátor koupelna"
        message: "Ventilátor se právě zapnul 💨"
  mode: single
4

There shouldn’t be a hyphen in front of alias and every line needs to be 2 more places to the left

alias: Upozorneni - ventilator koupelna zapnut
description: Pošle notifikaci, když se zapne ventilátor v koupelně
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: switch.shelly1minig3_84fce63bfe58
    to: "on"
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_iphone_pet
    data:
      title: "Ventilátor koupelna"
      message: "Ventilátor se právě zapnul 💨"
mode: single
5

Hmm I tried. but the automation cannot be saved. I get this: Message malformed: extra keys not allowed @ data[‘description’]

6

Yaml is very specific about spacing. You should create this automation in the GUI.

7

Where are you adding this? In your configuration.yaml under the automation: key? If so, keep the dash. The dash must be indented one level in from where the key is. Make sure your editor uses spaces only and not tabs.