You can now send WhatsApp notifications from HA

[mkjustuk]

Many thanks for this, works perfectly and means I can send messages for those that don’t have Telegram (yet!!).

[Rolzzz]

this is so cool, thanks for setting this up!
Any progression on being able to send images?

[Rolzzz]

Did some tinkering and managed to get Whatsapp to send a weblink to an internal image that I wanted to share. Only issue though is you need a static IP (or functional Dynamic DNS name) and appropriate FW rules. But it works!

[mani943 (Usman Aslam)]

Can someone guide please how to send whatsapp mesaage to multiple numbers. I have got 2 api keys and struggling with yaml code. I tried following but its invalid.

• name: WhatsApp

  platform: rest

  resource: https://api.callmebot.com/whatsapp.php

  data:

  source: HA

  - phone: +123456
  
    apikey: 123987
  
  - phone: +987654
  
    apikey: 689899

[Pippyn]

Something like this

notify:
  - name: Phone1
    platform: rest
    resource: https://api.callmebot.com/whatsapp.php
    data:
      source: HA
      phone: +987654
      apikey: 689899
  - name: Phone2
    platform: rest
    resource: https://api.callmebot.com/whatsapp.php
    data:
      source: HA
      phone: +123456
      apikey: 123987 

[lu4t]

Hi there,
yes, you have this option to send to HA notifications to whatsapp groups:

Sending notifications to a whatsapp group

Hi HA community, this video shows how to send notifications to a whatsapp group from within Home Assistant. It’s just a basic set-up guide which can be extended to any blueprint you’re using. Willing to see what you’re able to implement with it. Basic use case would be: family and friends on a whatsapp group will be able to get HA input (if they’re not already using the HA companion app ) [HOW TO: send group whatsapps from Home Assistant.]

Enjoy it!

[chjohans (Christer Johansen)]

Thanks, tried this and it does not work. I can send was messages to myself through that Api but it simply will not set up a group. The bot will create the group just fine as per the API instructions and add me as the admin, but when I send the “group-id” command to get the group id so I can actually send messages to the group the bot will just not respond back with the group ID as per the API description.

[lu4t]

The group-id should be working now, it was a bug that is already solved.

[chjohans (Christer Johansen)]

Thank you, I can confirm that this is indeed working now, thank you!

[Marsman]

The callmebot website must be collecting a lot of interesting information… How can this be secure?

[JacquesdeBruyn]

Hi, just checking if anyone else had this issue.
I have setup using the callme method, and it sends notifications…only if I trigger it once it will continue sending the same message over and over every couple seconds. I’ve tried adding a helper toggle and having it send a message when the toggle is of to try see if it’s maybe a command being repeated from HA but no use. Ended up blocking the bot just to have some peace and quiet.

[Faecon (Jo)]

I have this code

id: '1688280487861'
alias: whatsapp_Koelkast
description: als de koelkast 8 minuten open staat, krijgen we een whatsapp bericht
trigger:
  - type: opened
    platform: device
    device_id: ae02cd49848f14204d6c787934c239ba
    entity_id: binary_sensor.deursensor_koelkast_contact
    domain: binary_sensor
    for:
      hours: 0
      minutes: 8
      seconds: 0
condition: []
action:
  - service: whatsapp.send_message
    data:
      clientId: default
      to: [email protected]
      body:
        text: De koelkast in de keuken staat open !
mode: single

What is wrong with it ?

[poudenes]

Does someone know if you can send images to WhatsApp?

[Tamsy]

Just follow the link at the OP and you’ll get the answer

[sailorweb (Luiz)]

HI. You can display you configuration.yaml and our automation for callmebot api ?