Send notification to user as opposed to device

[jcat2]

Currently when setting up an automation that send a notification the script needs the device name. Instead of selecting a device what about selecting a User such that all signed in devices under that User receive the notification?

[pkscout (Kyle Johnson)]

Just in case you didn’t know, you can do this now, it’s just that you have to manually add all a person’s devices. So the feature request to have this more automatic might be interesting (i.e. if you add devices to a person in the GUI). Any, to do it now, in configuration.yaml I have:

notify: !include notify.yaml

Then in notify.yaml I have:

- platform: group
  name: kyle
  services:
    - service: mobile_app_kyles_ipad
    - service: mobile_app_kyles_iphone

And then in an automation I can use:

  - data:
      message: "the message"
      title: "the title"
      data:
        push:
          badge: "1"
    action: notify.kyle

[Didgeridrew]

Similar existing FR’s:

Notify person

I would like the option to notify a person, just like the device trackers it would be nice to assign the notify.device to a person. Then if you change the notification service you do not need to change all the automations and besides this it makes managing persons/users a lot easier.

Improved notifications

Right now, using notifications for users is pretty cumbersome. You need to duplicate the message you want to send for each user. It would be nice if there was a more streamlined notification system that effectively let you do bulk notifications and more easily attach information like photo captures from cameras, or statuses from entities, etc. Having an automation that lets you “notify” and you just checkbox the users and the message and data would be ideal. Especially if you can then allow u…