Hello everyone, I am working on setting up my door and motion sensors within HA. I have the automations configured, and now I am working on the notifications portion; what I would like to do is have HA send me an SMS every time one of the alarms are triggered. I want to fine tune this later on, depending on the time/status, such that lights will turn on, camera(s) will record, and possibly a siren will go off, but that is for a later post
My question is, based on everyoneās experience, what are the best choices for notifications? I have narrowed my choices down to Telegram, Simplepush, Instapush and possibly Notify My Android, and I wanted to see if I could get any feedback on them before I commit. I am leaning towards Telegram or Simplepush; any reason for choosing any one of these in particular?
To add to not helping you about your choices I use pushover. For a small one time fee per platform ($4.99) type you get 7500 message per month. It supports desktop/ios/android.
Iāve narrowed it down to Telegram, Simplepush and Pushover, and Iām leaning towards the latter two. I am going to a 7 day trial of Simplepush to test it, and I wanted to ask you about Pushover.
How fast and reliable is the service? I noticed that it doesnāt use SMS/Texting to send the notifications, that it sends via the internet. Has this been an issue for you? I am a bit concerned, because I donāt always have good strength on my phone, so I am afraid there will be a delay in receiving the notification. Have you encountered any issues? Thanks in advance!
Honestly it has probably been the most stable add-on I have. I actually prefer using data as I only have a small message plan since most people who text me have an iPhone and it goes over data instead of sms anyhow. I live in Chicago so coverage is not an issue, and honestly Iām usually in a wifi area anyhow (work/home). I havenāt noticed any messages being lost/missed. All in all itās been solid for me, and Iāve held on to it over native iOS notifiations for the multiplatform support.
Awesome, I appreciate your honesty, and continued replies. Iām going to give it a both Simplepush and Pushover a shot, as they both have 7 day trials. The more I read about Pushover, though, it looks like Iāll be going with them. Again, I appreciate your help and suggestion!
Sorry to keep bugging you, but Iāve got Pushover up and running, but I am not getting any notifications. Iāve been trying to figure out what Iāve done wrong, but I cannot see the error. Would you be able to help me with that?
Iāve added the following to my configuration.yaml file:
And the following to my automations.yaml (via the Automations page):
- action:
- data:
message: Front Door Open!
service: persistent_notification.create
- alias: pushover test
data:
message: Front Door Open!
service: notify.fr_door
alias: Front Door
id: '1502846230926'
trigger:
- above: '1'
entity_id: sensor.Front_Door_OpenClose
platform: numeric_state
- action:
- data:
message: Movement Sensed!
service: persistent_notification.create
alias: Motion Sensor
id: '1502846376976'
trigger:
- above: '1'
entity_id: sensor.motion_sensor_alarm_level
platform: numeric_state
Do you see an error? I am beginning to suspect that my phone may be the issue. I have an Huawei Ascend XT. I went through the troubleshooting page on Pushoverās site and ensured that Pushover would stay awake and running no mater what. But, that didnāt help. Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot, I will try it asap tomorrow. I havenāt set up a VPN connection to it yet, so itāll have to wait until after work tomorrow. I tried my brain a bit too much tonight to try it now
Okay, Iāve been working on it tonight, and I followed your instruction. The pushover.net and calling the service from the Dev Tools tests both worked. So, I edited my automations.yaml a few times based on your script, as well as what I read in the docs; from the States page, if I manually trigger the Automation by clicking on āTriggerā, it works perfectly. But, if I physically move the sensor, I get nothing. Here is what my code looks like:
- action:
- data:
message: Front Door Open!
service: notify.fr_door
alias: Front Door
trigger:
- platform: numeric_state
entity_id: sensor.Front_Door_OpenClose
above: 1
Any suggestions?
EDIT: Never mind, I was able to finally get it through some more trial and error. My code now looks like this:
- action:
- alias: Front Door Open
data:
message: Front Door Open!
service: notify.fr_door
alias: Front Door
id: '1503544302817'
trigger:
- above: '1'
entity_id: sensor.front_door_openclose
platform: numeric_state
That seems to have done the trick. Now, I will have to copy these over to my other sensors and see if I can get them going. Thanks again for your help!