Unavailable entity detection & notification

Blueprints Exchange
22

Thanks for the update. We are all here for the community :wink:

23

@gmlupatelli ciao. can you add an option to run the check every X minutes instead of once per day?

1 Like
24

@gmlupatelli I implemented expanding devices - see pull request at GitHub :slight_smile:

1 Like
25

Merged. Thanks for adding the feature.

26

Been using this for a while and itā€™s very helpful, thank you!

I have this in an auto entities dropdown in an admin dashboard, but is there a way to just show devices which have any unavailable entities instead of the entities themselves? Some of these devices have like 10 entities and I donā€™t need to see them individually because when they go offline itā€™s always all of them.

27

Hello I have a little problem, using your notificationā€™s text now I donā€™t receive nothing. anyway blueprint continue to discover unavailable entities. How I can receive a notify with these entities?
thank you

28

Is it possible to add an option to repeat the notification and the control every few hours?

1 Like
29

I have done that White a extra automation.

30

I like this automation very much, and when i read this form i think there are some improvements:
add include, add every hour (i have done that with a extra automation),
and add the possibility that when every thing is in order there wil not send a notification.
I am not a master in blueprints:-(

31

After investigation it appears that the original blueprint does not send a notification if there are no missing entities, it was my automation that triggered the blueprint and then sent a notification. The only question now is how can I trigger this blueprint every hour?

32

Thanks for this great template. I just have one additional question how can I get the room or the given name of the unavailable sensor? Currently I receive something like this ā€œlumi.remoteb1acn01 ā€¦ā€

33

I tried this blueprint but it does not work.
Ot always stops in the traces asking for an entries in the data field but i have no idea or found any hint what needs to go into the data field

34

To trigger it evrey hour you need to change this block of the blueprint:

# Triggers
trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: !input 'time'

Here is the link to the Blueprint creation wiki: Creating an automation blueprint - Home Assistant

1 Like
35

The original blueprint in the first post returns the names, e.g. Office - Light Controler, not the ID.

If you want to change what is returned, the part of the blueprint below is where the magic happens :slight_smile:
Unfortunately, I donā€™t know enough to include room data in the blueprint.

  entities: >-
    {% set result = namespace(entities=[]) %}
    {% for state in states %}
      {% if exclude.entity_id is defined %}
        {% if state.state == 'unavailable' and not state.entity_id in exclude.entity_id %}
          {% set result.entities = result.entities + [state.entity_id] %}
        {% endif %}
      {% else %}
        {% if state.state == 'unavailable' %}
          {% set result.entities = result.entities + [state.entity_id] %}
        {% endif %}
      {% endif %}
    {% endfor %}
    {{"ā¤µ \n- "}}{{result.entities|join('\n- ')}}
36

It only execute the actions block if there is at least one unavailable entity, otherwise it just stops.

37

Iā€™m still looking if I did something wrong. Loaded the blueprint, built the automation, renamed etc.

Set the time ahead some amount of minutes, saved and logbook shows it triggered, but send notification to my phone got nothing. Rebooted HA also.

I know my SM-800 tablet is turned off and should have triggered a message to my phone. Correct? :thinking:

alias: An entity detection & notification
description: ""
action: []
use_blueprint:
  path: gmlupatelli/unavailable_entities_notification.yaml
  input:
    actions:
      - action: notify.mobile_app_sm_s918u1
        metadata: {}
        data:
          message: Entities unavailable
          data:
            ttl: 0
            priority: high
    time: "11:40:00"