iOS Alerts

HAChris · February 20, 2021, 4:44pm

Hi,

I’m fairly new to HomeAssistant and have been muddling my way through moving some automation to HomeAssistant. I’ve been a little stumped on how to send iOS alerts to my phone and how to include a variable in my alert notification. I have 4 automations set up that trigger based on real time electricity pricing. They all seem to trigger and work properly, yet only 1 send an iOS notification (Turn on Mini Fridge automation). Also, I’d like it to output the current price when it does so, but currently it just spits out this:

Comed price is {state.sensor.comed_5_minute_price}
Mini Fridged turned back on.

Any help or points in the right direction are appreciated.

- id: '1611002510461'
  alias: Turn off Mini Fridge
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
    above: '4'
  condition: []
  action:
  - domain: switch
    entity_id: switch.mini_refrigerator
    device_id: b66547973fab91f046e4f45a7eb9d479
    type: turn_off
  - device_id: 3f8d5522b14ec128970965ee77b37493
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Mini Fridge turned off
    title: Comed Hourly Price is {{sensor.comed_5_minute_price}}
  mode: single
- id: '1611018874449'
  alias: Turn on Mini Fridge
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
    below: '4.0'
  condition: []
  action:
  - domain: switch
    entity_id: switch.mini_refrigerator
    device_id: b66547973fab91f046e4f45a7eb9d479
    type: turn_on
  - device_id: 3f8d5522b14ec128970965ee77b37493
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Mini Fridge turned back on
    title: Comed price is {state.sensor.comed_5_minute_price}
  mode: single`

Burningstone · February 21, 2021, 10:28am

Both of your templates are wrong:

Should be

title: "Comed price is {{ states('sensor.comed_5_minute_price' }}"

Take a look at the template docs here

You can always check your templates with Developer Tools -> Templates

HAChris · February 21, 2021, 3:39pm

Great, thanks very much for the point in the right direction and the help! The developer tools indicate this is working now.

HAChris · February 22, 2021, 4:14pm

Hi, I’m using this now and it still send the message as Comed price is [state.sensor.comed_5_minute_price}

title: "Comed price is {{ states('sensor.comed_5_minute_price') }}"

cyn · February 22, 2021, 4:56pm

I’ve never had any luck with templating the title on a notify service.
Try swapping your title and message around.

HAChris · February 22, 2021, 8:55pm

Thanks. I’ll give that a try. The other thing I have not figured out is why only 1 of my 4 notifications works. 1 works literally every time. The others have not worked at all.

Burningstone · February 23, 2021, 7:09am

Probably the title is not templatable then.

Your 4 automations, do they work whrn dou execute them manually?

cyn · February 23, 2021, 1:21pm

post your configuration as it now stands

HAChris · February 23, 2021, 1:43pm

I may have figured it out. I think it was a combination of some of these changes, plus I had to reload the automations, which I must have forgotten to do after 1 of the changes. I’m monitoring it now. I also realized I need to tweak the last part of the automation, depending on time of day and year. I need to look into how to do that now.

- id: '1611002510461'
  alias: Turn off Mini Fridge
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
    above: '4.0'
  condition: []
  action:
  - domain: switch
    entity_id: switch.mini_refrigerator
    device_id: b66547973fab91f046e4f45a7eb9d479
    type: turn_off
  - device_id: 3f8d5522b14ec128970965ee77b37493
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: "Comed price is {{ states('sensor.comed_5_minute_price') }}"
    title: Mini Fridge turned off
  mode: single
- id: '1611018874449'
  alias: Turn on Mini Fridge
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
    below: '4.0'
  condition: []
  action:
  - domain: switch
    entity_id: switch.mini_refrigerator
    device_id: b66547973fab91f046e4f45a7eb9d479
    type: turn_on
  - device_id: 3f8d5522b14ec128970965ee77b37493
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: "Comed price is {{ states('sensor.comed_5_minute_price') }}"
    title: Mini Fridge turned back on
  mode: single
- id: '1611251451579'
  alias: Turn off Humidifier
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
    above: '4.0'
  condition: []
  action:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: a627867f10c929f0229240a9bacd2630
    entity_id: switch.humidifier
    domain: switch
  - device_id: 3f8d5522b14ec128970965ee77b37493
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Humidifier turned off
    title: "Comed price is {{ states('sensor.comed_5_minute_price') }}"
  mode: single
- id: '1611251648758'
  alias: Turn on Humidifier
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
    below: '4.0'
  condition: []
  action:
  - type: turn_on
    device_id: a627867f10c929f0229240a9bacd2630
    entity_id: switch.humidifier
    domain: switch
  - device_id: 3f8d5522b14ec128970965ee77b37493
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Humidifier turned back on
    title: "Comed price is {{ states('sensor.comed_5_minute_price') }}"
  mode: single
- id: '1611252261052'
  alias: Set Ecobee Comfort Profile to Precool when Hourly pricing is less than 0
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
    below: '0'
  condition: []
  action:
  - device_id: 3f8d5522b14ec128970965ee77b37493
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Comed price is low!
    title: "Hourly pricing is less than zero ({{ states('sensor.comed_5_minute_price') }})"
  mode: single

cyn · February 24, 2021, 1:43pm

If you are interested I can show you a way to consolidate those 5 automations into 1.

HAChris · February 24, 2021, 2:08pm

Very interested! I was realizing that it seems rather redundant, but was focused on making it work first and having them separate allowed me to make changes to just 1 and not others to test what worked. Thanks for your help!

cyn · February 24, 2021, 2:18pm

I think this should work. Change clockbright to your sensor.

- alias: monitor comed
  trigger:
    - platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: input_number.clockbright
      below: 0.0
    - platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: input_number.clockbright
      above: 3.9
    - platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: input_number.clockbright
      below: 4.0

  condition:

  action:
    - service_template: '{% if trigger.to_state.state|float > 3.9 %}switch.turn_off{% else %}switch.turn_on{% endif %}'
      entity_id:
        - switch.humidifier
        - switch.mini_refrigerator

    - service: notify.mobile_app_phone
      data:
        title: "Monitor Comed"
        message: >
          Comed price is {{ trigger.to_state.state }}.
          {% if trigger.to_state.state|float < 0 %}
              Comed very low!!!
          {% endif %}
        data:
          ttl: 0
          sticky: true
          priority: high

HAChris · February 24, 2021, 4:06pm

Will this automation also turn it back on when the price changes to below 4.0 as well?

cyn · February 24, 2021, 4:09pm

Yes it will, that’s what the service template handles for you.

HAChris · February 24, 2021, 9:12pm

It seems like this doesn’t replace the part about setting my EcoBee to pre-cooling that I have in my automations. I was hoping to do this when power is zero or less, but realized I only want to do this during the day in the winter, and anytime during the summer. Or maybe I could just set it to If Ecobee is set to heat mode, then do this, otherwise if set to cool mode do this…

cyn · February 25, 2021, 3:44pm

From what I see in the automations you posted, all you are doing is sending a message when the comed is below zero which is my “Comed very low messge”. Did I miss something else?

If you are looking at doing something else when below zero, You can add a condition in the action section at the end to test for < 0 winter/summer logic.

HAChris · February 25, 2021, 4:36pm

This sets my thermostat to a precool mode when pricing is below zero.
EDIT: No, you’re right. It only sends a message for now. I didn’t figure out that automation yet. My mistake.

- id: '1611252261052'
  alias: Set Ecobee Comfort Profile to Precool when Hourly pricing is less than 0
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: numeric_state
    entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
    below: '0'
  condition: []
  action:
  - device_id: 3f8d5522b14ec128970965ee77b37493
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: Comed price is low!
    title: "Hourly pricing is less than zero ({{ states('sensor.comed_5_minute_price') }})"
  mode: single

HAChris · May 7, 2021, 8:33pm

Hi,

I am finally returning to this. I’m wondering how I can use your suggestion and now just notify my phone when devices turn on/off. I’m ditching the EcoBee part for now since I think IFTTT will be able to do some of that for me with some logic they’re building.

Here’s what I have now:

- alias: monitor comed
  trigger:
    - platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
      below: 0.0
    - platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
      above: 3.9
    - platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: sensor.comed_5_minute_price
      below: 4.0

  condition:

  action:
    - service_template: '{% if trigger.to_state.state|float > 3.9 %}switch.turn_off{% else %}switch.turn_on{% endif %}'
      entity_id:
        - switch.humidifier
        - switch.mini_refrigerator

I used to have something like this in there to notify me of the changes. Any idea how I can incorporate this?

  - device_id: 3f8d5522b14ec128970965ee77b37493
    domain: mobile_app
    type: notify
    message: "Comed price is {{ states('sensor.comed_5_minute_price') }}"
    title: Mini Fridge turned off