Calling IFTTT from an alert

1

I’ve been able to call IFTTT as an action in an automation as follows:

automation:
…
…
action:
- service: ifttt.trigger
data: {“event”: “GarageLeftOpened”}
- service: timer.start
entity_id: timer.garage_door

ifttt:
key: !secret ifttt_key

I’m now trying to call the same IFTTT call from an alert, which requires one to specify a list of notifications. The documentation says you can use a group notification to call other services such as twillow. But my attempt below to call IFTTT is failing. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

alert:
  garage_door:
    name: Garage is open
    done_message: Garage is closed
    entity_id: cover.garage_door_opener
    state: 'open'
    repeat: 10
    can_acknowledge: True
    skip_first: True
    notifiers: ifttt_garage_alert

notify:
  - name: ifttt_garage_alert
    platform: group
    services:
      - service: ifttt
        data:
          target: {"event": "GarageLeftOpened"}
 
ifttt:
  key: !secret ifttt_key

@gureyes since you proposed using alerts, maybe you might know something about using group notifiers? Apparently they can be used elsewhere.

2

This won’t work because the alert requires a notify component which is one of the ones listed here: https://www.home-assistant.io/components/notify/

Notify groups won’t work either because they also require notify component.

We really need a notify template for this to work. Templates allow you to create custom components where you specify the parameters to call. For example a notify template for ifttt would call the ifttt trigger with the payload you specify. I’m surprise this doesn’t exist yet.

3

There is an IFTTT component. Is there anything in it that might be useful?