How to configure Alert to send notification to Web UI?

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Hi,

I have set up an alert for my aquarium which works fine with push notification, however it doesn’t send persistent_notification to the UI and also miss the button to acknowledge, I tried to add the “notify.persistent_notification” without luck, I think it’s a bit strange why HA doesn’t send alerts to UI by default. Any suggestion?

aquarium_pump:
  name: Aquarium pump is turned off!
  done_message: Aquarium pump is now turned on!
  entity_id: switch.kitchen_aquarium_plug
  state: "off"
  repeat:
    - 20
    - 60
  skip_first: false
  can_acknowledge: true
  notifiers:
    - mobile_app_mais_iphone_16_pro
    - notify.persistent_notification
2

Are you actually passing notify.persistent_notification any data?

3

Not sure you can send persistent notifications using the alert integration, as they are handled differently than other notifications:

Admittedly I never used the Alert integration; I always loved the idea but it also seemed quasi-abandoned by the developers so I just stuck with managing my own alerts via automations.

4

Thank you both!
I made it work, instead of notify. persistent_notification, it should just be persistent_notification.
Now I have issue with email notification, it doesn’t work :frowning:
I agree the alert is nice but seems abandoned, it’s handy as you can configure different intervals and mute notification.
I know everything can be done by automation, however the concept is good :+1:

5

It is abandoned which is unfortunate. I’ve tried to sub PRs to enhance and they have been rejected because they are not accepting any changes. I have hundred of alerts☹️At some point I’ll move over to the alerts2 custom components