Group-Notification to only certain members - based on status

[phischmi (Philipp)]

Hi all,
I’m looking for a way, to send a notification to group of users based on their status in that group.
E.g. I have a group “family” where the status is either home or not_home - depended on whether at least one member of the group is home or not.
Now i want to send a notification to only those members of that group, who are at home at the time being.
How could i achieve that?

Thank you all very much!

Philipp

[Piggyback (René)]

Have a look at this thread. It explains how to select automatically based on attributes.

PSA: Turn on/off all lights in Home Assistant 0.104+ (group.all_* changes)

Seeing that group.all_* was removed from states, here are some useful canned items that will get you the same result as before. Using Services to perform an action on all entities Using all inside the entity_id field will allow you to use turn everything on or off inside a domain. You just need to pair it with the correct command. This should work for pretty much every service that has entity_id. Replaces # Do not use, this is out of date. - service: homeassistant.turn_on entity_id: grou…

[phischmi (Philipp)]

Thanks for your reply, first of all
Unfortunately, I do not know exactly how i could utilize those attributes for my plan.

Maybe I should give some more insights into my setup…

I have one notifier-group:

notify:
  - name: familie
    platform: group
    services:
      - service: mobile_app_iphone_von_philipp
      - service: mobile_app_carlas_iphone

And one Group to check whether one of the members is at home or not:

Familie:
  name: Familie
  entities:
    - person.philipp
    - person.carla

Now I only want to send a notification only to members of ‘Familie’ who are e.g. at home.
Thanks for your further help.

[Piggyback (René)]

@phischmi

Familie: name: Familie entities: - person.philipp - person.carla

Hi Philip,
I am not at all an expert, but i would think that you would need to play around with the condition and the trigger. I think this example is a good start as it selects those that are at home as you want:

PSA: Turn on/off all lights in Home Assistant 0.104+ (group.all_* changes)

The trigger is tricky. Probably the easiest without listing all the devices: trigger: - platform: event event_type: state_changed condition: - condition: template value_template: "{{ trigger.event.entity_id.split('.')[0] == 'device_tracker' }}" The condition is also tricky, but easier - condition: template value_template: "{{ states.device_tracker | count == states.device_tracker | selectattr('state','eq','home') | list | count }}"

So basically you keep your trigger and then the notify service goes to those that fit the template, i.e. being at home.