Fixed: Node-red + Notifications = error

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Trying to send notifications via pushbullet to my phone. 2 things. I dont know how to install push bullet. I however have “Notify” setup in HA. This works prefect in HA but not node-red.

Error message

5/29/2019, 8:37:07 AMnode: 65e4e73c.a856c8msg : string[82]

“Call-service API error. Error Message: required key not provided @ data[‘message’]”

EDIT: FIXED: i installed pushbullet https://www.iotwithus.com/using-pushbullet-to-get-notifications-from-node-red/

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You can use HA notify. You have to supply the call-service node with a message property in the data field.

Data Field: {"message": "test message"}

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Thank you Kermit!

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@Kermit

I have some notifications working in Node Red using the call-service.
Now I am trying to add one that send data from a NWS (National Weather Service) alert sensor.

The sensor attributes look like this (currently zero alerts):

title: null
display_desc: null
spoken_desc: null
friendly_name: NWS Alerts
icon: mdi:alert

I was thinking the data for the node would be something like:

{
"title":{{sensor.nws_alert.title}},
 "message":{{sensor.nws_alert.display_desc}}
}

but that isn’t working - and I haven’t found anything on the forum yet for sending a call service to HA with a sensor reference like this.

UPDATE:
Okay, after more reading, and finding a page on states/attributes, I think I have it working.

{
    "title": "{{states.sensor.nws_alerts.attributes.title}}",
    "message": "{{states.sensor.nws_alerts.attributes.display_desc}}"
}

This appears to be working - but any feedback (better way, or cleaner… aka I don’t need one of the above pieces) is always welcome!

Thanks!
DeadEnd

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