New whatsapp integration for Home Assistant

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True! And if the developer doesn’t eleborate on this matter I’m happy to hear if there are better alternatives

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Just skip the Whatsapp, because it is not intended for such use.

Use Telegram, it is official, secure, and offers way more functions and works very well. I use it and is flawless!
Yes you need one more app on your phone, but you probably already have lots of unused apps on your phone and adding one more app will not make a difference.

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Hi,
Using this and working well on a remote site in PNG for generator updates as WhatsApp is the only messaging app they use.
Is there a way to insert a line break in the messages?
I’m sending service notifications and line breaks would allow the list of items to complete to be clear.
Thanks,

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Since HA operating system 15.0 the green api stopped working.

2025-03-17 21:18:37.388 WARNING (SyncWorker_0) [homeassistant.loader] We found a custom integration greenapi which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you experience issues with Home Assistant
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Is anyone using this successfully with HA OS >=15?

47

Works fine for me - just set it up this afternoon and I’m on 15.2

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The Russia-based and Russia-developed communication app Telegram? This is either a very lame joke or very ignorant. At least end-to-end traffic is encrypted with Whatsapp.

It turns out I was the ignorant one. After reading up on Telegram I figured I was wrong. It is developed by two Russians but they did a lot to make it it private and save, if you trust their servers, the app seems very safe and private. It is also used to spread child-pornography and terrorist messages but this just underlines the safety of the messages send with Telegram. Until 2024 they also did not comply with requests from governments for data, they do now if it it is a legally based request.

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Thanks @Tomer_Klein for your work!!
I have a doubt, I was able to send images of my cam, but I guess the length if the path is too short? I cant send if I create a timestamp file name, but if I put a short name, it works. IS that possible?

Can you give me details about that?

Thank you very much!! This is really helpful!!!

Eric

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I have been using the whatsapp addon by Giuseppe GitHub - giuseppecastaldo/ha-addons: Home Assistant Whatsapp Add-on from what I can tell it doesn’t use middleman servers. Seems they are using whatsapp web interface instead.

It had been working great until last Monday August 11th. I did manage to get it working again by adding a “1” between the country code and the area code, but sending to a group doesn’t seem to work anymore.

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Hi,

i can’t send images via green-api from HA 16.1.
I still get “Unknown error” when I define a file path as data:

grafik
grafik1068×489 15.8 KB

Can you help me further.

Thanks in advance!

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I’m on HAOS 16.1 and can’t get images to work either. Messages without images seem to work fine. Please let me know if my syntax is wrong???

  - service: notify.greenapi
    data:
      message: test
      target: "[email protected]"
      data:
        file: /local/ALL.jpg

the “ALL.jpg” file is in the “www” folder

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/local/ is how the access the www folder when accessing a file via the web.
Inside the docker container running Home Assistant the file path is actually /config/www/

So try /config/www/ALL.jpg Though be aware that things are case sensitive so the file must be called ALL.jpg if it is actually called all.jpg and you are trying to access it as ALL.jpg it won’t be found.

54

Thanks, it works now. This is the syntax for anyone else needing it.

  - action: notify.greenapi
    data:
      message: |
        📸 Motion detected at the front door!
        Check the snapshot
      data:
        file: /config/www/ALL.jpg
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Im getting the following error:

Platform error ‘notify’ from integration ‘greenapi’ - Integration ‘greenapi’ not found.

notify:

  • platform: greenapi
    name: greenapi
    instance_id: xxxx
    token: xxxx
    target: [email protected]

Am I missing something? Green API works fine as im able to send messages on the web gui but HA is not

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Hi!
Is it possible to send a GIF file to a group?
Both files exist, but this does not send any message:

alias: TEST
action: notify.greenapi
metadata: {}
data:
title: TEST
target: [email protected]
message: " "
data:
file: /config/www/images/test.gif

But this one works:

alias: TEST
action: notify.greenapi
metadata: {}
data:
title: TEST
target: [email protected]
message: " "
data:
file: /config/www/images/test.jpg

Please, advise. Thanks!

57

Hi! Any thoughts/ideas on this? Thanks!

58

Exactly the same issue.
I don’t know, what I missed.