📍 State Notifications & Actions

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@Blacky a few feature requests (pretty please)

The below BP is not longer maintained but has 2 features that are killer…

  1. Repeating notifications (every N hrs, min, sec)

Reoccurring notifications are very helpful not just for saving energy. I use them extensively since sometimes a door or window will look closed and will not be closed ‘completely’. This not only wastes energy but it may cause a door lock or sensor to not work properly.

  1. auto-clear notification when end-state occurs.

  1. Notification Groups
    Groups would be really nice for a few reason… including logging. A Log shows all separate mobile notifications. When using your template with individual entities, the Log Book will display 3 lines for each single notification since your blueprint seems to actually send a separate notification trigger for each Entity. If using notify.notify or notify group, it would be only 1 log entry.

  2. Variable use in the Title of the notification.

I found a hack/workaround but I suspect this may be a bug?..

Message body must be ONLY a space character, then you can do something like this in the Title…

{{ states[trigger.entity_id].attributes.friendly_name }} {{ states[trigger.entity_id].last_updated.strftime(" : %m-%d-%y") }}

@Blacky update… this is the error we get in the log

Error while executing automation automation.notify_motion_deck_small: value should be a string for dictionary value @ data[‘message’]

… but when using a space it works fine. Looks like Notify requires a Message be entered.

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