How to use notify.file

Configuration
1

before abusing, i would just love to get it to wrok in the first place…

tried it like this, but no file gets created. Please spot the error?

# https://home-assistant.io/components/notify.file/
- name: notifications
  platform: file
  filename: notifications
  timestamp: True
2

Try providing a full path to notifications.

if that wasn’t it, tell us what the error you’re getting is :wink:

3

This is from configuration.yaml:

notify:
  - name: mbac_operation
    platform: file
    filename: mbac.txt

and I’m writing there after execution of a script:
scripts.yaml:

someScriptNameHere
  alias: "someScriptAlias"
  sequence:
  - service: someServiceExecutedHere
    data:
      packet: packetSentToThatService
  - service: notify.mbac_operation
    data:
      message: "here you input what should be written in the file"

I’m using Hass.io and file mbac.txt is created and in the config folder.

Hope that this helps.

4

Well, there’s your problem. Please read the documentation and compare what’s you’ve written, to what’s there:

notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: file
    filename: FILENAME

You’ll note that in yours you’ve added - to lines that shouldn’t have them :wink:

5

Oops. Actually my config is without second and third dashes. My bad in typing it here…

And it is working fine for me - Mariusthvdb is having issues :slight_smile:

6

well, issues as in nothing happening…

as @Tinkerer suggested ive provided the full path:

# https://home-assistant.io/components/notify.file/
- name: notifications
  platform: file
  filename: /config/notifications
  timestamp: True

but no file notifications is being created. also tried it with an extension filename: /config/notifications nothing happening.

solved! : How to forward all notifications to notify.file