How do I trigger an alert to test it?

Configuration
1

I’m trying to notify my discord server when I have updates to hacs and HA using Update notifications! Core, HACS, Supervisor and Addons

I have the alert for HA updates and it’s current state is on but no alerts. I have the discord notification system working and have sent test messages fine.

How can I manually trigger the alert to test it? Also where are the logs to see why it fails?

2

Use an input boolean to trigger the alert, then you can trigger it as needed until you have it working.

Check the logs at Config > Logs if its failing.

3

Where is this, in automation/scenes/scripts?

4
5

You can simply go to Dev Tools/states, click the entity that should trigger your alert (not the more-info), edit the state or attributes and set click ‘SET STATE’.
That’s how i test all my automations.

2 Likes
6

Yea this is what I do as well. Just force the entity to be in whatever state triggers your alert using dev tools and make sure it works

7

Thanks for all the help it’s been really useful!

I managed to get things figured out, ultimately I’m moving to Node Red since it’s seems a lot more powerful and the GUI is a bit more intuitive.