Unable to get notify to work

Configuration
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Hello

I am attempting to setup notifications. I have added Notify to my

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

tts:
  - platform: google_translate

http:
    base_url: https://#####.duckdns.org
    ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
    ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem

sun:

mobile_app:


group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml
sensor test: !include_dir_list ./sensors

homeassistant:
#  customize: !include customize.yaml
  customize: !include customize_glob.yaml
  

camera:
  - platform: ffmpeg
    name: Kitchen Camera
    input: rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/H.264

device_tracker:
  - platform: linksys_smart
    host: 192.168.0.1
    
notify:
  - name: pushbullet_message
    platform: pushbullet
    api_key: !secret pushbullet_api_key
    
google:
  client_id: !secret catchall_client_id
  client_secret: !secret catchall_client_secret
  
spotify:
  client_id: !secret spotify_client_id
  client_secret: !secret spotify_client_secret"

When I used developer tools and try to send a test message I get the following error message

Failed to call service notify/notify. expected dict for dictionary value @ data['service_data']. Got 'Test Message'

Any ideas/advice on what I am doing wrong?

thanks

2

Looks like the problem is with the automation you didn’t share :wink:

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I set up a test automation just to see if it worked

- id: auto_sunrise_time
  alias: Sunrise
  description: ''
  trigger:
  - platform: sun
    event: sunrise
  condition: []
  action:
  - service: notify.pushbullet
    data:
      Message: 'Sun has risen'
  mode: single

but I also just simply tried using developer tools which I assumed allowed me to test the protocol before setting up automations.

Screenshot-HA

thanks

4

and now after numerous server restarts, it has kicked into life :slight_smile: no idea how or why, but it is working now.

5

When you tried to call it via the services tab of developers tools you didn’t format the service data correctly. You left out “message:” before your actual message.

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FYI, HA is case sensitive. Message is not message, and as finity said, you needed the same key in the services tool.

  action:
  - service: notify.pushbullet
    data:
      message: 'Sun has risen'

or in the Service Data block just:

message: 'Sun has risen'
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Thank you, I now see what I did wrong. All working. Very much appreciated.