Why the heck is there no notify.persistent_notification service?

[Steven_Rollason]

As a workaround you use the RESTful notification platform and the HA REST API, as in this post:

Notify to persistent notification

I just wanted to be able to use the persistent notification as an actual notification platform/service, so that it can be used in alerts or in notify groups. I had seen complex solutions with automations detecting alert events or persistent notifications creations to then call another notification service, but I think I found a more straightforward solution. It simply uses the RESTful notification and the HA REST API: notify: - name: persist_it platform: rest resource: 'http://localh…

You do need to create a long-lived access token for it to work, but it works quite well.