New alert feature, problem in configuration

Configuration
1

Is this correct as notifiers sintax?

in addition I receive this error
17-02-12 10:54:58 ERROR (Thread-1) [homeassistant.util.yaml] while parsing a block mapping
in “/home/hass/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml”, line 1412, column 9
expected , but found ‘’
in “/home/hass/.homeassistant/configuration.yaml”, line 1413, column 31

binary_sensor alert:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      temperature_low:
        value_template: '{{ states.climate.anna_thermo.attributes.temperature < 18 }}'
        friendly_name: 'Anna'stemperature is low'


alert:
  temperature_low:
    - name: Temperature is Low
      entity_id: binary_sensor.temperature_low
      repeat: 
        - 15
        - 30
        - 60
      notifiers: notify.push_html5
2

There is your problem. You need to escape the single quote in “Anna's”.
I think it should be:

friendly_name: 'Anna''stemperature is low'

i.e two single quotes instead of one.

Sebastian

3

Or use doble quotes:
"Anna'stemperature is low"

4

got it the ’ error.

Other thing

is it states.climate …
or
sensors.climate…

?

6

Try it like this, without the dash (-):

alert:
  temperature_low:
    name: Temperature is Low

also, remove the “alert” from this line:

binary_sensor alert:

Sebastian

7

I have many binary_sensor need to differentiate it

trying now without the -

8

Then it would be:

binary_sensor:
  - platform: template
    name: 'alert'
    ...

Sebastian

9

seems it works as above.

10

how to use multiple alerts?

alert 1:

alert 2:

or

alert:
  - name_of_first alert
...
  - name_of_second_alert

?

11

this seems not working

12

this also is giving problems

17-02-12 12:30:15 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Error during setup of component alert
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/bootstrap.py”, line 149, in _async_setup_component
result = yield from component.async_setup(hass, config)
File “/srv/hass/hass_venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/alert.py”, line 121, in async_setup
for entity_id, alert in alerts.items():
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘items’

13

I had to go back to .37.1 temporarily, so I can’t test.
It should be like:

alert:
  - first_alert:
      name: One
      entity_id: abc
      ...
  - second_alert:
      name: Two
      entity_id: xyz
      ...

Sebastian

14

tried that, it did not go.

Revert to have one alert only … and wait

15

sometimes I think is all crap … temperature went down and notify did not notify, and I don’t know why in the hell is that

17-02-12 18:11:55 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Unable to find service notify/notify.push_html5

16

The example documentation doesn’t use the notify. prefix. Have you tried just notifiers: push_html5?

17

will try that.

Could be that I have an automation and this alert, triggered by the same event, and both the same notify.push_html5?

Because both failed: automation and alert.

Now I changed automation to pushbullet, and alert to your suggestion

18

if they would ask me 2 words to describe home assistant I would use: cool and unreliable

19

It’s not yet at version 1, and you’re using a feature that’s only just been released, of course you can expect some rough edges.

That said, I’ve never found it unreliable. Tricky to get working, sometimes :wink:

Now, the alerts work perfectly for me, here’s my notification and alert settings, both in separate files using includes:

# Notifications via Pushover
- name: pushover
  platform: pushover
  api_key: API_KEY
  user_key: USER_KEY

And then the alert:

garage_door:
  name: Garage is open
  entity_id: binary_sensor.garage_sensor_12_0
  state: 'on'
  repeat: 10
  can_acknowledge: True
  skip_first: True
  notifiers:
    - pushover

Maybe if you posted your automations and alerts, correctly formatted, somebody might be able to help you.

20

You can try this:

alert:
first_alert:
name: One
entity_id: abc
…
second_alert:
name: Two
entity_id: xyz
…

1 Like
21

will try, which indentation?