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

submitted 1 year ago by billygoat@catata.fish to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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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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[–] billygoat@catata.fish 5 points 1 year 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!

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] billygoat@catata.fish 1 points 1 year ago

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