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Joaoapps Join

The joaoapps_join integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] exposes actions from Join. In Home Assistant, the Joaoapps Join features are divided up in two locations, the Join integration, and the Joaoapps Join notify platform. The notify platform allows us to send messages to Joaoapps Join devices, the integration allows us to access the other special features that Joaoapps Join offers. When in doubt, you can reference the API documentation this is based on.

In the configuration.yamlThe 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 you need to provide the API key and device id or name of the target device. You can find your device id and API key here.

To set it up, add the following information to your configuration.yamlThe 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.yamlThe 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:
  - platform: joaoapps_join
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
    device_id: DEVICE_ID
    device_ids: DEVICE_ID_1,DEVICE_ID_2
    device_names: DEVICE_1_NAME,DEVICE_2_NAME
    name: NAME
joaoapps_join:
  - name: NAME_OF_GROUP
    device_id: GROUP.GROUP_NAME
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
YAML

Configuration Variables

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api_key string Required

The API key for Join.

device_id string (Optional)

The id of your device or group

device_ids string (Optional)

Comma separated list of device ids or groups.

device_names string (Optional)

Comma separated list of device names.

name string (Optional)

The name parameter is optional but needed if you want to use multiple notification platforms. The platform will be exposed as notify.<name> action. The name will default to notify if not supplied. See the Notifications integration for more details.

Use only one of device_id, device_ids, or device_names, this will determine the notification recipient(s).

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - platform: joaoapps_join
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
    device_id: DEVICE_ID1
    name: NAME1
  - platform: joaoapps_join
    api_key: YOUR_API_KEY
    device_id: DEVICE_ID2
    name: NAME2
YAML

The notify action has several optional parameters: icon, smallicon, image, sound, url, notification_id, category, tts, tts_language and vibration. You can use them like so:

message: Hello from Home Assistant!
title: Home Assistant
data:
  icon: https://goo.gl/xeetdy
  smallicon: https://goo.gl/xeetdy
  vibration: 0,65,706,86,657,95,668,100
  image: https://www.home-assistant.io/images/favicon-192x192-full.png
  sound: https://goo.gl/asasde.mp3
  url: https://home-assistant.io
  notification_id: hass-notification
  category: Custom Notification Category
  tts: Notification from Home Assistant
  tts_language: english
  actions:
    Netflix:
    Tweet:
      - Tweet from HASS!
    Sleep:
YAML

The actions exposed in the joaoapps_join integration can be used with the action data described below:

Action Data
joaoapps_join/ring
joaoapps_join/send_sms {"number":"5553334444", "message":"Hello!"}
joaoapps_join/send_tasker {"command":"test"}
joaoapps_join/send_url {"url":"http://google.com"}
joaoapps_join/send_wallpaper {"url":"http://www.planwallpaper.com/static/images/ZhGEqAP.jpg"}
joaoapps_join/send_file {"url":"http://download.thinkbroadband.com/5MB.zip"}

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