I’m a new user setting up my first HA server, I don’t understand what most of the code or terminology means, and reading the documentation has made me even more confused as I’m not familiar enough with the basics for it to be of much use. Please dumb things down as much as is possible.
I’m trying to set up a custom notification in HA that sends out an email via SMTP, but when I try to trigger the notification as an action from an automation it says that it cannot find it. I also cannot call it from the Developer console. It doesn’t appear in the available notifications and when I try to type it in manually it says that it can’t find it.
I suspect that I’ve either put the notification in the wrong place, its malformed so that HA doesn’t recognize it, or there may be a permissions issue internal to HA.
When I run the built in code checker there are no error messages, and I’ve rebooted my HA server several times.
I’m using my own SMTP server (Not gmail) so the login credentials are correct, and I’ve confirmed that no requests are hitting the server to the notification isn’t going out and bouncing back. I’ve also confirmed that HA has full visibility of my SMTP server.
This is my custom notification, it’s in my Configuration.YAML
These are the error messages that I receive when I try to run it from the right click menu
Please ignore the differences in cases, I’ve tried combinations of upper and lower and get the same error message regardless. I get the same error if I try to trigger it from the development console, so the trigger isn’t the problem.
I am aware that there is no content to the email, but I’ve not even gotten that far yet. I’m going to put that in later.
I get this on the sever screen when I ask for log files.
