Why are device notifications in HA so poorly designed? The idea that a device name (which changes at the whim of its user) must be hardcoded in yaml to send a notification is truly unbeleiveable. It should be brain dead simple to push a noticiation to all devices with the companion app installed. WTF am i missing?!
I have to thank you for a good laugh. 
I think your title actually explains it. HA is open source. It is supported by you and me. I am not perfect and I suspect that you are also not perfect. I notice that while I was writing this you corrected your spelling of worst which you had written as woerst Such as it is with HA.
So if it is so simple (definitely not for me), you fixit. That’s what open source is. Please be sure to test your code before you release it.
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I assume you mean something like, " Your Dashboard has Change , Please Refresh Browser/App ( Well i believe the APP actually does that it self, or ? )
PS: i didn’t corrected your “noticiation”
Notifications - Home Assistant .
notify.notify ( with no target ) could work ( depends on your setup )
Group could work, if you decide so
Group - Home Assistant .
Touche (or should I say Touché). A fair point you make. My frustration got the better of me and that surfaced in tone of my message. Given how well Home Assistant does so many things, I just can’t wrap my head around why notifications are so difficult.
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Post your code example of how you are trying to send a notification.
Each device is an independent installation hence you must send the notifications to each of them.
I am testing Advanced Notification System nowadays, which is supposed come up with a solution for your ask. (GitHub - txxa/hass-ans: Home Assistant integration for intelligent, centralized notification routing with advanced filtering, rate limiting, retries, and multi-channel delivery. · GitHub)
Instead of targeting individiual devices, you send your notification to a central place and then, you decide who gets what deciding on severity (critical, low, high) and type (alarm, warning).
This sounds a lot like a discussion for the Feature Request forum where devs will actually read it. Especially if you have good examples and preferred design rather than just grumbling that you don’t like it or it doesn’t do what you need it to without any actual input…
If you are extending notifications to for instance phone notifications, the phone apps are completely different software code, and you would need to feature request on those.
it sounds like a task( Implant ), for the “next” AI “Improvement” , isn’t that What Elon Musk is elaborating with, in southern US ?
None of our device names has changed in years.
What is causing this behavior?