Notifications - Google Hangouts

I tried looking for something similar but no dice. It would be great to use Google Hangouts to send a notification.

Push bullet is pretty slick but you got my vote. The more the merrier! Just going to put this here for someone smarter than me.

https://developers.google.com/+/hangouts/getting-started

Yeah, I’m a big proponent of losing “some” functionality if it means less apps installed on phones and lower cost. My goal is to simplify the user experience as much as possible or else you lose support and funding from family. Right now we use MessageBird to send out SMS because well, everyone knows SMS, no apps to install etc. But it costs money and management is required. Ultimately, I’m hopeful that we will see Hass have an Android app that will be able to have notifications natively.

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Perfect idea but as per API website:

The Google+ API for Hangouts is no longer supported

For hangouts notifications i am using hangups on my pi:

shell_command:
testscript: ‘python3 /usr/local/sbin/send_hangouts_message.py --conversation-id XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --message-text “message”’

I made it with with:

and this script: https://github.com/tdryer/hangups/blob/master/examples/send_message.py

In HASS
shell_command:
hangups: python3 /home/homeassistant/hangups/send_message.py --conversation-id xxxx --message-text “test”

test_hangups:
alias: Test Hangups
sequence:
- service: shell_command.hangups

Or with variables:

shell_command:
hangups: python3 /home/homeassistant/hangups/send_message.py --conversation-id {{conversationid}} --message-text "{{message}}"

test_hangups:
  alias: Test Hangups
  sequence:
    - service: shell_command.hangups
      data_template:
          message: '{{ now() }}'
          conversationid: 'xxxxx'