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Pushbullet

There is currently support for the following device types within Home Assistant:

Note

The free tier is limited to 500 pushes per month.

Prerequisites

Notification Mirroring allows users to see their Android device’s notifications on their computer. It must be first enabled in the app and is currently only available on the Android platform. For more information, please see this announcement on the Pushbullet Blog.

Go to https://www.pushbullet.com/#settings/account to retrieve your API key/access token.

Configuration

To add the Pushbullet integration to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & Services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select Pushbullet.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

Sensors

The following sensors are created after setting up the integration:

  • Application name: The application sending the push.
  • Body: The notification message body.
  • Notification ID: The ID of the notification.
  • Tag: The notification tag (if the application sending supports it).
  • Package name: The name of the sender’s package.
  • Receiver Email: The email of the push’s target.
  • Sender Email: The email of the sender.
  • Sender device ID: The ID of the sender’s device.
  • Title: The title of the push.
  • Type: The type of the push.

“Body” and “Title” are enabled by default. The rest can be enabled from the UI.

Notifications

The Pushbullet notification platform sends messages to Pushbullet, a free service to send information between your phones, browsers, and friends. The free tier is limited to 500 pushes per month.

Usage

Pushbullet is a notify platform and thus can be controlled by calling the notify action as described here. It will send a notification to all devices registered in the Pushbullet account. An optional target parameter can be given to Pushbullet to specify specific account’s devices, contacts or channels.

Type Prefix Suffix Example
Device device/ Device nickname device/iphone
Channel channel/ Channel tag channel/my_home
Email email/ Contact’s email address email/[email protected]
SMS sms/ Contact’s phone number sms/0612345678

If using targets, your own account’s email address functions as ‘send to all devices’. All targets are verified (if exists) before sending, except email.

Example action payload 


  message: A message for many people
  target: 
    - device/telephone
    - email/[email protected]
    - channel/my_home
    - sms/0612345678

To use notifications, please see the getting started with automation page.

URL support 

actions:
  - action: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
    data:
      title: "Send URL"
      message: "This is an url"
      data:
        url: "google.com"
  • url (Required): Page URL to send with Pushbullet.

File support 

actions:
  - action: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
    data:
      title: "Send file"
      message: "This is a file"
      data:
        file: /path/to/my/file
  • file (Required): File to send with Pushbullet.

File URL support 

actions:
  - action: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
    data:
      title: "Send file"
      message: "This is a file URL"
      data:
        file_url:  https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/06/03/19/38/test-361512_960_720.jpg
  • file_url (Required): File to send with Pushbullet.

Single target 

actions:
  - action: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
    data:
      title: "Send to one device"
      message: "This only goes to one specific device"
      target: device/DEVICE_NAME
  • target: Pushbullet device to receive the notification.

Important

Don’t forget to allowlist external directories, so Home Assistant has access to them.