I have a question regarding notifications. There are some things I have to keep in mind if e.g. temperatures drop below 0 °C (and which cannot be automated… yet! ;)). I want to use HA to send some reminders of things I need to do in these cases. This works, but spams me with reminders as I monitor some conditions every 30 minutes or so. So I was wondering how you would implement such a reminder…
I was thinking of impementing a switch, which will be on if the first notification has been triggered and is switched off again in certain intervals.
Are there maybe easier (more intuitive) ways of implementing such a reminder?
Which switch platform would you recommend if this is the way to go. So far, I did not find something like a “generic switch” and the “switch template” also seemed not to be what I am looking for. But maybe I’m mistaken.
Thanks, I’ll have a look into the alert component, it looks promising, although I think it will not solve all my problems (that would be great ).
Do you have experience with this component? From the first read I did not yet find an answer to the following question or am not sure whether I understood it correctly:
Can I reset it, e.g. every day at midnight, as some reminders should be daily, even if the triggers did not change and I acknowledged it once?
I’d probably use an input_boolean (notification_sent) that gets set to true when the trigger sends off the notification in the first automation and is reset at midnight every day by a second automation.
Thanks for your hint with boolean @chairstacker, that helped a lot to solve it quickly. Now it seems to be working just fine with standard notifications.
@tom_l: I found a use for alerts though and will implement them next.
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