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dan@upvote.au · edit-2 6 months ago

I don’t see anything in that article that says that Google store the contents of the notification. It just says that they link push tokens to emails, which is true - they have to know who to send the push notification to.

In any case, if you don’t want Home Assistant notifications being relayed through Google, you can use a persistent connection so that the app connects directly to your Home Assistant server.

dan@upvote.au · edit-2 6 months ago

There’s a few comments like this in this thread, from people that I guess didn’t actually read the post :)

They weren’t asking how to do it; they were asking why it works out-of-the-box with the standard Home Assistant notifications.

You don’t need ntfy; the standard Home Assistant app notifications work anywhere since they route via Google Firebase.

dan@upvote.au · 6 months ago

That’s what I was thinking of! It’s not in the settings section I’d expect it to be in (notifications) so I thought it wasn’t doable any more.

dan@upvote.au · edit-2 6 months ago

Notifications go through Google Firebase servers. This is documented here: https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notification-details/. Your HA server sends the notification to Google, which then sends it to your phone. They don’t store the notification they just relay it.

Most mobile apps do something like this. One reason is to improve battery life - your phone can have a single connection to a Google server instead of every app needing its own separate connection.

There used to be a way to use local notifications (meaning you have to be on the same network, either locally or via a VPN), but I can’t find the setting any more so maybe it’s gone now. (edit: this is still possible)

dan@upvote.au · 7 months ago

I love this! Thanks for the link.

dan@upvote.au · 8 months ago

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dan@upvote.au · 9 months ago

The Home Assistant developers rejected a pull request that added OpenID Connect support (https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/32926) and have not expressed any interest in it, so I don’t think we’re ever getting it. :/

dan@upvote.au · edit-2 9 months ago

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.

dan@upvote.au · edit-2 9 months ago

Put the image in the media directory in your Home Assistant config directory then use /media/… as the URL. This works for me.

For my security cameras, I have a Node-RED flow:

It:

Listens for MQTT events from Blue Iris
Builds a message based on the AI detection result and camera name (e.g. “Person detected at Front”)
Write image file from MQTT event to media/alerts/ directory
Send notification to phones and TV (currently just goes to one Shield - I need to set up the second one eventually)
If a person is detected, send notification to Google speakers

Here’s the JSON for the flow:

JSON

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        "type": "tab",
        "label": "Camera",
        "disabled": false,
        "info": "",
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        "id": "f64fc2c05427d1ff",
        "type": "mqtt in",
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        "datatype": "json",
        "broker": "e811c8eb637d26a5",
        "nl": false,
        "rap": true,
        "rh": 0,
        "inputs": 0,
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        "y": 40,
        "wires": [
            [
                "5d5d6c7623201f34"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "5d5d6c7623201f34",
        "type": "function",
        "z": "329ba4b7632a95c8",
        "name": "Process payload and build message",
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        "initialize": "",
        "finalize": "",
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        "y": 40,
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        "type": "file",
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        "filenameType": "jsonata",
        "appendNewline": false,
        "createDir": false,
        "overwriteFile": "true",
        "encoding": "none",
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    {
        "id": "6490fa5f55043f2a",
        "type": "api-call-service",
        "z": "329ba4b7632a95c8",
        "name": "Notify phones",
        "server": "b6f128b45d1d76f7",
        "version": 5,
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        "areaId": [],
        "deviceId": [],
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        "mergeContext": "",
        "mustacheAltTags": false,
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        "wires": [
            []
        ]
    },
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        "dataType": "jsonata",
        "mergeContext": "",
        "mustacheAltTags": false,
        "outputProperties": [],
        "queue": "none",
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        "y": 100,
        "wires": [
            []
        ]
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    {
        "id": "53f4a59537f2893e",
        "type": "switch",
        "z": "329ba4b7632a95c8",
        "name": "Is person?",
        "property": "message",
        "propertyType": "msg",
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            {
                "t": "cont",
                "v": "person",
                "vt": "str"
            },
            {
                "t": "cont",
                "v": "Person",
                "vt": "str"
            }
        ],
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        "repair": false,
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        "wires": [
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        "id": "31ec03e4d62909c3",
        "type": "api-call-service",
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        "name": "Notify Google Speakers",
        "server": "b6f128b45d1d76f7",
        "version": 3,
        "debugenabled": false,
        "service": "google_assistant_sdk",
        "entityId": "",
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        "mustacheAltTags": false,
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    },
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        "name": "MQTT",
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        "port": "1883",
        "clientid": "",
        "autoConnect": true,
        "usetls": false,
        "protocolVersion": "4",
        "keepalive": "60",
        "cleansession": true,
        "birthTopic": "",
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        "birthPayload": "",
        "birthMsg": {},
        "closeTopic": "",
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        "closePayload": "",
        "closeMsg": {},
        "willTopic": "",
        "willQos": "0",
        "willPayload": "",
        "willMsg": {},
        "userProps": "",
        "sessionExpiry": ""
    },
    {
        "id": "b6f128b45d1d76f7",
        "type": "server",
        "name": "Home Assistant",
        "version": 2,
        "addon": false,
        "rejectUnauthorizedCerts": true,
        "ha_boolean": "y|yes|true|on|home|open",
        "connectionDelay": true,
        "cacheJson": true,
        "heartbeat": false,
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]

dan@upvote.au · 9 months ago

I do the same (except on Android instead of iOS) and it works great. I have the alerts go to all our TVs (via our Nvidia Shield boxes and https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/nfandroidtv/) and Google speakers too.

Recently had one of the leak detectors detect a leak and the alerting worked great. Turns out the leak was a bottle of distilled water dripping out the back of the bottle.

dan@upvote.au · 1 year ago

Hue uses Zigbee though, doesn’t it? In my experience they’re the most reliable Zigbee lights with the most consistent light output, and work very well as routers.

dan@upvote.au · 1 year ago

Ecobee works great, and supports local control via HomeKit. Note that you don’t need any Apple devices to use HomeKit, as Home Assistant natively supports HomeKit devices.

Not all features are available via HomeKit as it’s just a basic thermostat integration. Ecobee also have an open API with access to all features, but unfortunately their API is all cloud-based rather than local.

dan@upvote.au · 1 year ago

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dan@upvote.au · 1 year ago

Yes!! I was going to post the exact same video hahaha