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Not that clear how to use #32100

Closed GerhardKreuzer closed 5 months ago

GerhardKreuzer commented 6 months ago

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Hi, sorry, but it isn't clear, how to use a notification in an automation. I add the lines in configuration.yaml, but I never found a thing I can use in a automation. Is it an Entity, Service ??

A nice sample will be, 'Seend a mail at a dedicated time, easy to test and universal enough to start from.

With best regards Gerhard

URL

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/smtp/

Version

2024.3.3

Additional information

???

dannytsang commented 5 months ago

It's a service call. In the example, it created the SMTP with name

notify:
  - name: "NOTIFIER_NAME"

This should create a notify "service" with the same name and which you can use in a service call e.g - service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME

The first example is not the simplest example to show this off so I will have a think about your suggestion.