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Home-Dashboard Push Notification Guide

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The new version bring a deeper integration into Home Assistant. You can now register #Home-Dashboard as a Mobile App and allow sending notification to your device. No additional custom component required.

To enable this feature, please follow these 3 easy steps

1. Register Mobile App

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Go to Settings and enable Push Notification, Home-Dashboard will register new app within Home Assistant, just click Restart Home Assistant when the registration.

2. Test Sending Notification with Picture

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Home-Dashboard registered device will appear as a Mobile App, you can send notification directly into the device without additional custom component.

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A notification with picture will appear in your device.

3. Delete Mobile App Integration

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Go to Home Assistant > Configuration > Integrations > Mobile App: and click the recycle bin icon.

4. Automatically send Notification to Home-Dashboard

First, we need to edit configuration.yaml by adding the following line:

Allow Home Assistant write file into www folder:

homeassistant:
  whitelist_external_dirs:
    - /config/www

Add notify.ALL_DEVICES service: (Replace mobile_app_hdb_mobile_app_1234 with your registered device name)

notify:
  - name: ALL_DEVICES
    platform: group
    services:
      - service: mobile_app_hdb_mobile_app_1234
      - service: mobile_app_hdb_mobile_app_2345
      - service: mobile_app_hdb_mobile_app_3456


Send a simple notification when the light turned on 
automation:
  - alias: Notification Light Turned On
    trigger:
      - entity_id: light.light_1
        platform: state
        to: "on
    action:
      - service: notify.ALL_DEVICES
        data:
          title: Simple Notification 
          message: Light Turned On


Send a notification with image whenever garage door is opened (Replace http://home-dashboard.duckdns.org:8123/local/camera_1.jpg with your own data) 
automation:
  - alias: 'Notify when garage door opened'
    trigger:
    - entity_id: cover.garage_door
      platform: state
      to: "open"
    action:
    - data_template:
        entity_id: camera.camera_1
        filename: /config/www/camera_1.jpg
      service: camera.snapshot
    - delay:
        seconds: 1
    - data_template:
        title: Garage Door 
        message: Opened
        data:
          image: http://home-dashboard.duckdns.org:8123/local/camera_1.jpg
      service: notify.ALL_DEVICES

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5. Troubleshooting

Error 404 during Mobile App registration:

  • Make sure you have default_config: in configuration.yaml
  • If you don't, add this line to configuration.yaml and restart Home Assistant
mobile_app:

https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/app_integration_setup.html