Hello, I’m new for Home Assistant.
I think it would be useful in the person settings to specify the mobile phone number, telegram id and other attributes that could be useful in automations.
Hello, I’m new for Home Assistant.
I think it would be useful in the person settings to specify the mobile phone number, telegram id and other attributes that could be useful in automations.
You can already do that by creating custom attributes using the customization functionality for the person entity (or any other):
Just a side note that info might not be as useful as you’d think.
For example HA has a telegram integration but you have to set up a bot, put it in a chat and get the chat ID just to set it up. You can’t just have HA message a random telegram user in the middle of an automation. All telegram identifiers are entered as part of integration configuration.
For SMS, HA has these integrations. I do notice here that some of the options allow you to specify a phone number as the target
so I suppose that could help there. Although in case you’re unaware pretty much all the SMS options cost money. You either have to sign up for a cloud service like Twilio or own a GSM modem. And the text won’t actually come from your personal phone number for any of these.
Thank you. Yes, a lot of things can be configured manually using customizations, but I think it would be useful to have such a setting in the interface.
I purchased a Huawei E3272 modem and am using native integration. However, I could fill in the phone number in the profile and specify it in automations, instead of specifying it in each automation or setting it up through customizations.
Fair enough. Yea I suppose the phone number one does have value. It feels odd to have that information in the state engine since it seems more like config to me but I can see how it works.
The telegram one though will pose a challenge, even if you put it in customizations.