Need Help with Simple alarm and/or automation notifications

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Hi ,

been having issues with my inverter so I want to know if it turns off… this alarm stuff is harder than I thought… what is a ‘notifier’ - I have mobile phone setup so it should work but NOPE. .below is code

configuration.yaml -

alert: 
  inverter_offline:
    name: Solar Inverter Fault Shutdown
    title: "Solar Inverter Fault"
    message: "Solar Inverter Shutdown:fault - [inverter offline]"
    entity_id: sensor.inverter_device_status
    state: "Offline: fault"
    repeat: 15
    notifiers:
    - notify.mobile_app_sm_g960f
    - mobile_app_sm_g960f
    - sm_g960f
    - notify.notify
    - notify
    
automation testing_fuuure:
    alias: "Fire TEST_confvers"

    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: sensor.inverter_device_status
        to: "Offline: fault"

    action:
      - service: mobile_app_sm_g960f
        data:
          title: "Wake up!confd"
          message: "The house is on fire and the cat's stuck in the dryer!confd"
          data:
            ttl: 0
            priority: high

automations.yaml -


- id: "Fire TEST"
  alias: "Fire TEST"
  trigger:
   - platform: state
     entity_id: sensor.inverter_device_status
     to: "Shutdown: fault"
  action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_sm_g960f
      - service: notify.notify
        data:
          title: "Wake up!"
          message: "The house is on fire and the cat's stuck in the dryer!"
          data:
            ttl: 0
            priority: high
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have a bunch of errors like:

Received invalid command: mobile_app/push_notification_channel
3:46:45 PM – (ERROR) Home Assistant WebSocket API - message first occurred at 3:46:45 PM and shows up 12 times

Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/alert/__init__.py", line 228, in watched_entity_change
    await self.begin_alerting()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/alert/__init__.py", line 240, in begin_alerting
    await self._notify()
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/alert/__init__.py", line 279, in _notify
    await self._send_notification_message(message)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/alert/__init__.py", line 307, in _send_notification_message
    await self.hass.services.async_call(
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/core.py", line 1442, in async_call
    raise ServiceNotFound(domain, service) from None
homeassistant.exceptions.ServiceNotFound: Unable to find service notify.notify.mobile_app_sm_g960f

Invalid config for [automation]: Service mobile_app_sm_g960f does not match format <domain>.<name> for dictionary value @ data['action'][0]['service']. Got None. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 9).
4:31:10 PM – (ERROR) config.py - message first occurred at 3:46:49 PM and shows up 4 times
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- id: "Fire TEST"
  alias: "Fire TEST"
  trigger:
   - platform: state
     entity_id: sensor.inverter_device_status
     to: "Shutdown: fault"
  action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_sm_g960f
        data:
          title: "Wake up NOW!"
          message: "The house is on fire and the cat's stuck in the dryer!"
          data:
            ttl: 0
            priority: high
      - service: notify.notify
        data:
          title: "Wake up!"
          message: "The house is on fire and the cat's stuck in the dryer!"
          data:
            ttl: 0
            priority: high
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thanks @AllHailJ

would this go in automations.yaml or just in configuration.yaml?

also know whats wrong with the alert syntax?

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If I was guessing - since the error message is quite clear that it is trying to find notify.notify.mobile_app_sm_g960f and that doesn’t exist - it’s probably stopping completely there and not trying anything else in the list.

As for your automation, the same problem - Service mobile_app_sm_g960f does not match format <domain>.<name> it’s expecting domain first (notify) followed by the name (mobile_app_sm_g960f).

The Alert integration exists specifically to send notifications on alert conditions, so it doesn’t need the notify part (I agree it’s a bit inconsistent).

back_door_low_temperature:
  name: Back Door Open - Low Temperature
  message: "*Back Door Open* The back door has been left open and the temperature outside is {{ states('sensor.outside_temperature') }}"
  done_message: "The back door has been closed"
  entity_id: input_boolean.back_door_open_low_temperature
  state: 'on'
  repeat: 15
  can_acknowledge: true
  notifiers:
    - tg_house_group
    - bedroom_chromecast
    - livingroom_chromecast

As you can see - none of mine have notify.

Fix both your automation and your alert syntax and it will work.

I’m also fairy sure this won’t work:

action:
      - service: notify.mobile_app_sm_g960f
      - service: notify.notify
        data:
          title: "Wake up!"
          message: "The house is on fire and the cat's stuck in the dryer!"
          data:
            ttl: 0
            priority: high

Because the service call to the mobile notify, contains NO data at all.
You are calling a notification to the mobile platform with no data, which will do nothing - but might log an error.
Followed be a call to the notify.notify platform which you should never use, because it is inconsistent what that will actually do - it will send the notification to the first loaded notification service, which may not always be the same.

Change your notifiers list in your alert to this:

    notifiers:
      - mobile_app_sm_g960f

(note your indentation for the notifiers was also incorrect)

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Automations.yaml