LlamaLab Automate
The llamalab_automate
integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] uses Googles Cloud Messaging Services to push messages from Home Assistant to your Android device running the LlamaLab Automate
Prerequisites
Go to https://llamalab.com/automate/cloud/
Configuration
To use this notification integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml
The configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file.
After changing the configuration.yaml
The configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. The integration is now shown on the integrations page under Settings > Devices & services. Its entities are listed on the integration card itself and on the Entities tab.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
- name: NOTIFIER_NAME
platform: llamalab_automate
api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
to: YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS
Configuration Variables
Setting the optional parameter name
allows multiple notifiers to be created. The notifier will bind to the notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
action.
Example Automation:
- action: notify.entity_id
data:
message: "This is the message"
data:
priority: Normal
Message delivery priority
in the nested data
section is optional (default value: Normal).
Value “High” attempts to awaken the receiving device.
Receiving cloud messages in Automate:
- Add a new flow
- Insert block “Messaging -> Cloud message receive”
- Insert block “Interface -> Toast show”
- Connect OK from Flow beginning to IN of Cloud receive
- Connect OK from Cloud receive to Toast show
- Connect OK form Toast show to IN of Cloud receive
- Tap Cloud receive and select the email account as setup in your configuration
- Assign a variable name for the Payload
- Tap Toast show and set the message value to the variable you’ve specified
If you have multiple devices paired to one Google Mail account and want to control each instance of Automate individually, you can set the notifier to target a specific device. To determine your devices name, add a Cloud Message send block to your flow, tap it and scroll all the way to the bottom. Device names are case sensitive.