Conditional Pushbullet notifications

Configuration
1

So I have many automations that send notifications to my wife and myself using pushbullet

here is an example

  - service: notify.pushbullet_notifications
    data_template:
      target:
      - !secret pauls_secret_email
      - !secret tracys_secret_email
      title: Zigbee Devices Offline
      message: message here

Sometimes I would like to be able to turn off notifications for one person or the other, but just for a while. I do have a input boolean for each person named “enable_notifications_paul” , etc. Was wondering if anyone had a recommendation on a conditional template for the “target:” based on that?

2

I have this from a different automation

condition: "{{ is_state('input_boolean.notify_paul','on') }}"

and also

condition: "{{ is_state('input_boolean.notify_tracy','on') }}"

Could I do a template within a template for the target: based on these?

Just trying to wrap my head aroind the template within a template

3

Does this look like it would work? I’ll test out later tonight,but was looking for a warm fuzzy. :slight_smile:

  - service: notify.pushbullet_notifications
    data_template:
      target: >
        {% if states('input_boolean.notify_paul') == 'on' and states('input_boolean.notify_tracy') == 'on' %}
           - !secret pauls_secret_email
           - !secret tracys_secret_email
        {% elif states('input_boolean.notify_paul') == 'on' and states('input_boolean.notify_tracy') == 'off' %}
           - !secret pauls_secret_email
        {% elif states('input_boolean.notify_paul') == 'off' and states('input_boolean.notify_tracy') == 'on' %}
           - !secret tracys_secret_email
        {% else %}
           - noone
        {% endif %}
      title: Zigbee Devices Offline
      message: message here
4

Try something like this:

  - service: notify.pushbullet_notifications
    data_template:
      target: >
        {% if states('input_boolean.notify_paul') == 'on' %}
           - !secret pauls_secret_email
        {% elif states('input_boolean.notify_tracy') == 'on' %}
           - !secret tracys_secret_email
        {% endif %}
      title: Zigbee Devices Offline
      message: message here

To simplify.

5

If they both had the input boolean turned on, would both receive the message? If so, that looks perfect

6

That’s the theory.

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7

Great, thanks. I’ll try it out tonight and report back as the solution or not.

8

In your example tracy will never receive an email when paul does. Although i’m not so good at the templates i guess something like this would work, but i’m not sure what happens when there are no targets defined:

- service: notify.pushbullet_notifications
    data_template:
      target: >
        {% if states('input_boolean.notify_paul') == 'on' %}
           - !secret pauls_secret_email
        {% endif %}
        {% if states('input_boolean.notify_tracy') == 'on' %}
           - !secret tracys_secret_email
        {% endif %}
      title: Zigbee Devices Offline
      message: message here
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9

Ah you’re right, I just threw something together quickly to trim down the ifs for him.

Thanks for the correction.

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10

Only issue I have is that it’s not formatting correctly for some reason.

In the template editor it ends up like this

- !secret pauls_secret_email
        
        
         - !secret tracys_secret_email

But even this shows up the same way

        {% if states('input_boolean.notify_paul') == 'on' and states('input_boolean.notify_tracy') == 'on' %}
           - !secret pauls_secret_email
           - !secret tracys_secret_email

Edit: I should have stated, this is not working because of the formatting. Not sure how to get it to format correctly

Edit2: This is the error I see in my logs with the current formatting issue

Invalid target syntax: - !secret pauls_secret_email

 

 - !secret tracys_secret_email

edit 3:

gave up for the moment. I’ll come back to it later.

Was trying to end up with this

  action:
  - service: notify.pushbullet_notifications
    data_template:
      target:
      - !secret pauls_secret_email
      - !secret tracys_secret_email
      title: Doors left unlocked
      message: message

Just could not get the - !secret… to work

Edit 4: 12-22
still no go. Tried this most recently

  - service: notify.pushbullet_notifications
    data_template: >
     {% if states('input_boolean.notify_paul') == 'on' and states('input_boolean.notify_tracy') == 'on' %}
      target: 
      - !secret pauls_secret_email
      - !secret tracys_secret_email
     {% elif states('input_boolean.notify_paul') == 'on' and states('input_boolean.notify_tracy') == 'off' %}
      target: 
      - !secret pauls_secret_email
     {% elif states('input_boolean.notify_paul') == 'off' and states('input_boolean.notify_tracy') == 'on' %}
      target: 
      - !secret tracys_secret_email
     {% else %}
      target: 
      - noone
     {% endif %}
      title: "Goodbye Routine has ran"
      message: "All lights have been turned off. Garage door has closed and locks have been locked"