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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Critical notifications in Home Assistant (companion.home-assistant.io)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just got a large batch of water leak sensors and was setting an automation to send a notification to my phone and I was worried that I would miss the notification. I found this page in the documentation for doing critical alerts. On iOS the notification stays persistent, even after unlocking the device. What’s really nice is that if you have an Apple Watch, the notification will also show up there and play a sound if the watch is on silent mode.

Even though I hope I never get one of these notifications, I’m really glad that this functionality exists within Home Assistant.

Just thought that was really neat.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I did not know that you could send notifications to an Nvidia Shield. I’ll have to look into that this evening. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It works well, and the TV app is free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.cyberdream.androidtv.notifications.google&hl=en_US&gl=US, you just need to download it from the Play Store on the Shield. There's a companion app for phones that costs money, but you don't need that one - it's only for sending messages from your phone to the TV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Set it up last night. Can confirm it was quick and easy. Thanks!