Use Alert Integration to send email / persistent notification?

Configuration
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I am trying to use the Alert integration to get notifications. I cannot get any type of notification to fire from the Alert I have created.

Note - anywhere [email protected] or example_tofof_exa appears I’ve sterilized the actual email. Since the automation works correctly and manually triggered notifications using the developer tools work correctly I’m confident the unsterilized versions are working correctly.

  • Manually triggering a notification using the dev tools - persistent, direct email using example_tofof_exa, and grouped email using furnace_email - all work as expected.
  • Sending email using the example_tofof_exa service within an automation works as expected.
  • The binary sensor used in the alert changes to ‘problem’ as expected.
  • The alert changes then changes to ‘on’ as expected, but no notifications appear.

I want to use the Alert integration since that’s what it’s explicitly for, not an automation - in particular, I want to be able to trigger multiple notifiers and to re-send the automation every x minutes, both of which are easily supported by Alert.

I have tried many variations and no matter what I do I can’t get Alert to trigger any sort of notification.

Here is the relevant yaml:

notify:
  - platform: group
    name: furnace_email
    services:
      - service: example_tofof_exa
        data:
          target: [email protected]
          title: Change Furnace Filter

alert:
  change_filter_alert:
    name: "Furnace Filter Expired"
    entity_id: binary_sensor.furnace_pressure_drop_is_high
    state: "on"
    repeat: 1
    skip_first: false
    can_acknowledge: false
    message: "Pressure drop across the furnace filter is {{ states('sensor.furnace_pressure') }}."
    notifiers:
      - furnace_email
      - example_tofof_exa
      - persistent_notification

I have an automation that sends an email when the alert changes to on that is working:

alias: send email alert
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - binary_sensor.furnace_pressure_drop_is_high
    to: "on"
condition: []
action:
  - service: notify.example_tofof_exa
    metadata: {}
    data:
      message: >-
        Pressure drop across the furnace filter is {{ states('sensor.furnace_pressure')
        }}.
      title: Change Furnace Filter
      target: [email protected]
mode: single
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Hi, have you found a solution? I also encounter problem sending email notification, push notification seems to work fine