šŸŒ Zone Notification Extended

Hi, nice work there.
One suggestion though: Could you add option for android auto?

car_ui: true/false

It would be nice to see notification on my car display if Iā€™m near store and have items in shopping list. This works fine be me on phone.

I am using the Life360 integration for presence. It provides the state ā€œdrivingā€. Problem is, this integration sees ā€œdrivingā€ as a zone, so it is sending me messages that the person ā€œhas arrived at drivingā€. I donā€™t want that. How can I exclude ā€œdrivingā€ as a zone in the automation?

First off, thank you so much for this blueprint. I am very new to Home Assistant in general, and even newer to the concept of blueprints.

Iā€™ve read through the entire ZNE topic/thread. Would it be possible to elaborate at a basic level the Notification Group setting? I looked at the ZNE FAQ and didnā€™t find any beginner level information on being able to send a notification to both the HA Personā€™s phone, and the spouse of the HA Personā€™s phone.

When I was working, many things were more intuitively obvious to me. Having been retired for over a decade, I sadly am finding less and less intuitively obvious. If someone were willing to be more ā€˜step by stepā€™ I would be quite appreciative. I hope someday I will get to the state where HA things are more obvious to me but unfortunately for me, (and for my wifeā€™s andriod notifications) I am not there yet.

Thank you again for the work youā€™ve done on the blueprint, and the time youā€™ve spent reading this.

Hi gar.nelson,
Welcome to the forum. Letā€™s see if I can be of any assistance.

Your best bet would be to look at the Blueprints Exchange - Home Assistant Community category and find a blueprint that one of the community members has written that will help you with this. I believe there are several. I have one that doesnā€™t do exactly that but similar as well.

If you are looking for tips on other things, The Home Assistant Cookbook - Index might be able to help there.

Thank you for your response. As I wrote earlier, Iā€™m specifically trying to get Zome Notification Extended notifications to go to both my phone, and my wifeā€™s phone. That is why I commented in this Zone Notification Extended comment area. My guess is that it would be a fairly common procedure to get notifications to two parties living in the same household, and thought it might appear as part of the FAQ. I know there is some sort of edit to a yaml file that I would guess many, many, many people have already doneā€“I just donā€™t ā€œgetā€ yaml files yet. Thatā€™s why I posted here, specifically looking for a solution to a shortcoming I have with Zone Notification Extended notifications specifically due to my current lack of Home Assistant yaml programming knowledge.

Yeah youā€™ll need to create a notification group in your configuration.yaml file. Did you get it figured out?

Not yet. I learn more every day, but I havenā€™t learned that yet. :slight_smile: I havenā€™t given up though, so Iā€™ll get it at some point and my phone will not be the only notification device.

Thank you for an outstanding blueprint. I am trying to apply waze travel time but for the sensor in your example wont work since each zone has it own sensor to home. I would appreciate if you can explain how to achieve that with an example code.

I didnā€™t use waze travel time. But it seems there are several sensors for the one integration that directs to the home zone?