Pushover Automation issue - error "Invalid config for [automation]: required key not provided @ data['action']. Got None"

Configuration
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Hi guys,

I’m trying to setup pushover notifications from an automation, I followed several examples I’ve found but none seem to work for me, I’m now consistly getting an error:

Invalid config for [automation]: required key not provided @ data['action']. Got None
required key not provided @ data['trigger']. Got None. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 13). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/automation/
Invalid config for [automation]: [data] is an invalid option for [automation]. Check: automation->action->0->data. (See /config/configuration.yaml, line 13). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/automation/

I’ve checked line 13 in my configuration.yaml - it’s “group: !include groups.yaml” so I don’t see how it’s related.

I can trigger a pushover notification from the Services tab fine and I receive it on my phone.

My configuration.yaml contains


# Pushover
notify:
  - name: Powercut_PushOver
    platform: pushover
    api_key: xxxxxxxxxxx
    user_key: xxxxxxxxxx

And my automation for this notification is as follows:


- id: '1567961259606'
- alias: 'Powercut'
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.apc_ups_status
  condition: []
  action:
  - data:
     service: notify.powercut_pushover
     message: "APC UPS Status Change"
     title: "Power Event"

Any ideas please? Thanks.

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Look at the docs

  action:
    # Actions are scripts so can also be a list of actions
    - service: notify.notify
      data:
        message: Beautiful sunset!

for example. You’ll notice that the formatting is quite different to your action.

Yours should be

  action:
  - service: notify.powercut_pushover
    data:
      message: "APC UPS Status Change"
      title: "Power Event"```
3

Thanks Tinkerer, all working fine now :slight_smile: