Can someone explain alert.can_acknowledge?

Configuration
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What’s the difference if I set can_acknowledge: true/false in an alert?

I tried sending me dummy alerts, and testing the boolean states of can_acknowledge. But I could not spot any difference. If I click on the notification, it disappears, and after the repeat interval the notification appears again. What might I have overlooked?

Because: not matter if I clicked on the alert or not. The alert is always repeated no matter if acknowledge is set to true or false…

2

Same here, did you ever find out the difference?

3

Unfortunately not :frowning:

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for me, it 's to authorize turn off alert with an automation and a telegram button for example .
like this:

  action:
    - service: alert.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: alert.my_alert
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I don’t understand the difference either. If I set the can_acknowledge to false I can still turn the alert off.