Synology - send System Notifications to Homeassistant & Companion App

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Hi.

I got permanently all those notifications by my Diskstation through e-mail, which started to annoy me. So I investigated how I could improve this process. There is an app by Synology for push notifications but since I try to bundle all my smart home notifications in the HA companion app, I found a way to do that. The whole setup takes less than 5 minutes. You can also use this to do other things in Homeassistant, like trigger automations based on Synology notifications etc.

First go to the Synology Control Panel → Notification → Push Service → Application Webhooks → Manage Webhooks.
Add a new webhook and select Custom.

Choose any provider name and a subject. The subject will be the first line of the notification. I just left it as is.
Then enter the URL of your HA webhook (more information here: Automation Trigger - Home Assistant).
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The header section should be already pre-filled to send JSON:
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In the request body add a field and give it a name (e.g. Message)
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Specify that this field you added is the Message Content
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In Homeassistant set up an automation to process the incoming webhook data. Here is my example, where I just forwarded the notification to my companion app:

trigger:
  - platform: webhook
    webhook_id: some_hook_id
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_florian
    data:
      title: Synology
      message: "{{trigger.json.Message}}"
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Great! I loved when everything is integrated in one place.

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This looks really nice!

However I have an old Synology DSM 6.2.4, which seems not to have the Webhooks yet. They must be available from DSM 7.x.

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I’ve got it in push service on the bottom of the page.

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Very nice !!! Removed email notification and switched to this. All in 1 place

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Small upgrade to automation:

trigger:
  - platform: webhook
    webhook_id: some_hook_id
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.mobile_app_florian
    data:
      title: Synology
      message: "{{trigger.json.Message}}"
      data:
        actions:
          - action: URI
            title: OPEN WWW
            uri: http://ip_address_synology 
          - action: URI
            title: OPEN APP
            uri: app://com.synology.DSfinder
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Hi
I believe that with a DSM update the configuration has changed slightly.
With DSM 7.2. I don’t understand where to set up Message Content.
As from the screenshot, I receive the webhook but not the content of the same.

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I have no experience with Webhooks, can someone help me?

Thank you

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For me it still looks in 7.2 as in my guide.

In your screenshot everything seems to be already preconfigured. You should get the text in Home Assistant with trigger.json.text

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I said I had no experience with Webhooks… :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Thanks a lot @FPro

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Sorry @emanuele.bordon, @FPro - I’m stuck here as well.
I’m basically receiving an empty message.

What exactly do I need to put into the ‘HTTP Body’ section?

OK - Got it:
I had to replace the word ‘text’ that’s shown in the screenshot above as
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with the word ‘Message’ - and while I was at it, I added a new message title as well:

{
  "Title": "Synology Event",
  "Message": "@@TEXT@@"
}