Notify service not appearing

Configuration
1

I’m unable to see “notify” in the dev-service tab. IIRC I used to be able to use ios_myiphone with the notify service. I’m not sure what I’m missing. I didn’t include ios: as the discovery: is supposed to take care of that. Any ideas?

Some of my configuration.yaml

# Discover some devices automatically
discovery:

notify:
  
device_tracker:
  - platform: icloud
    username: !secret icloud_username
    account_name: !secret icloud_username
    password: !secret icloud_password

I do see my devices in known_devices.yaml

myiphone:
  hide_if_away: false
  icon:
  mac:
  name: My iPhone
  picture:
  track: true

myipad:
  hide_if_away: false
  icon:
  mac:
  name: My iPad
  picture:
  track: true
2

on your iPhone in the HA app, make sure you enable / load notifications, you should then see a .ios.conf file and notifications should show up

3

I did that, but when I enter “notify” in the service tab, nothing is appearing. Is there something else I need to do to configure notify? After doing what you suggested I see new devices in knowndevices.

notify:
4

You won’t be able to send notifications like for the rest of the platforms, you need to create them manually
Check how I’ve done it


And automations

5

not to hijack this, please allow me this question:

is there any way to identify the Homeasistant instance sending the notification, other than editing the message and title manually for each notification:

1 have 2 systems, 1 Hassos and 1 Hassio, and they both show as Homeassistant in all notifying platforms. Ive named them differently, which shows in the frontend, but i can find no way to have a system identifier show up to differentiate easily.

thanks

6

I’m not aware of such feature. Other than setting some sort of identifier in the message itself, the message will always come form “homeassistant”…

7

thanks @lolouk44, guess I found a feature request :wink:

8

@FutureTense I know a lot of time has passed since your OP, but do you remember what solved your problem? I seem to be experiencing the same thing after I reset my ios privacy settings. Just rebooted a second time and all is well.