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Configuration
1

I want to use pushover for notification. All I find so far is entries in config.yaml. Is there some way I can setup a global push setup and use it from a automation?

2

Yes, pushover is configured in YAML.

Once you’ve done that, run a command line config check (to spot any YAML errors), and then restarted HA, you’ll find a notify service in Developer Tools → Services.

3

So, in YAML I create the notification for each automation I need and validate it, restart. Then I can call it in the automation. Sound right?

Thanks

4

You should only need a single pushover notification service in the YAML. Before restarting you can try reloading “Rest Entities and Notify Services” from the “YAML Configuration Reloading” section of developer tools, you might not need a restart.

Once it’s loaded you call it from each automation, and as tinkerer said, you can test it from the services tab in developer tools.

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The YAML configuration creates a notification service that you then use:

- service: notify.petunia
  data:
    title: "Incoming!"
    message: "The whale is falling"

You just change the title and message to suit each time you use it.

6

I got it working and the notifications are working, now a twist I want to make. I want a regular notification and another that is for emergencies. Here is what I added to YAML and ONLY one notify pushover shows up. what to do? Thanks

notify:
  - platform: pushover
    name: Pushover_Emergency
    api_key: API_Key
    user_key: User_Key 
        data:
          priority: 0
          sound: siren

notify:
  - platform: pushover
    name: pushover
    api_key: API_Key
    user_key: User_Key
7

Can there be two notify to the same platform??

8

This is why you should run the command line config check (which requires SSH) when making changes to YAML.

See this part of the docs which explain that you need to do either:

notify:
  - platform: pushover
    name: Pushover_Emergency
    api_key: API_Key
    user_key: User_Key 
        data:
          priority: 0
          sound: siren
  - platform: pushover
    name: pushover
    api_key: API_Key
    user_key: User_Key

or

notify:
  - platform: pushover
    name: Pushover_Emergency
    api_key: API_Key
    user_key: User_Key 
        data:
          priority: 0
          sound: siren

notify petunia:
  - platform: pushover
    name: pushover
    api_key: API_Key
    user_key: User_Key
9

I see my error I will give it a try.

Thanks alot

Ed

10

I used your first example. I created an automation and I could select each instance, pushover and pushover_emergency. Both sent a push to my phone when I ran the actions. The missing part is that the data portion did not go through. The sound and the priority were omitted or ignored by pushover.net

11

Probably then you had a problem with your YAML - you did run the check command I linked to?

(I know you didn’t as the YAML has an error in it :wink: )

12

I checked the config.yaml from the Developer Tools and it came out valid. Running ha core check from the cli now, this is really slow. It eventually timed out with a “context deadline exceeded” message I have been using Studio Code Server to edit the YAML file

13

Here is a automation config from the automation for a pushover Emergency

id: '1661130401039'
alias: Fire Alarm Basement
description: ''
trigger:
  - type: smoke
    platform: device
    device_id: 39f84bc5377ad237ed40db2867443c4b
    entity_id: binary_sensor.bsment_smoke_smoke
    domain: binary_sensor
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.pushover_emergency
    data:
      message: Smoke Detected
      title: Basement Smoke
mode: single

would the data ie Priority and sound entered into the config.yaml for this notify show up here? Where can I see a log of what was sent to pushover

14

That doesn’t look right if you check the docs - the last three lines don’t belong there, they’re part of the notification service call you make in the automation.

notify:
  - platform: pushover
    name: Pushover_Emergency
    api_key: API_Key
    user_key: User_Key 

action:
  - service: notify.pushover_emergency
    data:
      message: Smoke Detected
      title: Basement Smoke
      data:
        priority: 0
        sound: siren
15

OK I understand what you are saying I think. So how do I get that data into the action ?

16

I totally missed the Data entry in the automation. I have the priority and the sound there. Not working yet . I am going to start over and use only one notify and add the extra data and see what happens

17

I finally got it to do what I wanted. In the Action segment under Data I added:

priority: 2
sound: siren
retry: 20
expire: 3600

The priority and the sound didn’t work until I added the retry and the expire times.
Sorry if I was a PIA, I appreciate your patience with me.