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Updating notifications
(lemm.ee)
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I utilize scripts for all of my notification needs. It allows me to utilize logic based around certain criteria, like this on that will only notify family members at home. If no one is home it will wait and notify the first person to show up. This also allows me to be able to quickly toggle notifications for my wife when I'm testing automations with notifications.
I have something similar, but added user names to the mix. “names_iphone” works for “alert name” and similar.
This is really cool. I've been out and about and have gotten notification the laundry is done, and it's like, welp, that's not very useful information right now. Thanks!
The only issue with doing it this way is that the UI to call the script isn't as nice as calling the notification service directly, but it isn't too bad to switch to yaml mode and populate the parameters once you get used to it.
Yeah, I'm okay with the YAML mode, so that's not a major problem for me.