Smart-home notifications

The front door opened, a leak sensor tripped, the washing machine finished — you want to know about such events right away, not once the floor is already wet. Notifly is easy to connect both to Home Assistant and straight to MQTT — your own push infrastructure with no third-party clouds.

Home Assistant: a REST command

Describe Notifly as a rest_command in configuration.yaml — and call it from any automation:

configuration.yaml

rest_command:
  notifly:
    url: 'https://api.notifly.ru/message?token=AGdjfk_L.dKe8q'
    method: POST
    content_type: 'application/json'
    payload: '{"title": "{{ title }}", "message": "{{ message }}", "priority": {{ priority }}}'

An automation for “front door opened”:

automations.yaml

- alias: 'Notifly: front door opened'
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: binary_sensor.front_door
      to: 'on'
  action:
    - service: rest_command.notifly
      data:
        title: '🚪 Front door opened'
        message: "Time: {{ now().strftime('%H:%M') }}"
        priority: 7

A leak sensor — at max priority already, so it gets through even in DND:

- alias: 'Notifly: water leak'
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: binary_sensor.leak_kitchen
      to: 'on'
  action:
    - service: rest_command.notifly
      data:
        title: '💧 Water leak in the kitchen!'
        message: 'Sensor triggered — shut off the water.'
        priority: 10

The washing machine finished (by a drop in power draw):

- alias: 'Notifly: washing done'
  trigger:
    - platform: numeric_state
      entity_id: sensor.washer_power
      below: 5
      for: '00:03:00'
  condition:
    - condition: state
      entity_id: input_boolean.washer_running
      state: 'on'
  action:
    - service: rest_command.notifly
      data:
        title: '🧺 Washing done'
        message: 'Time to hang it up.'
        priority: 5
    - service: input_boolean.turn_off
      target:
        entity_id: input_boolean.washer_running

Home Assistant: shell_command

If you’d rather reuse the shared wrapper, call notifly-send through a shell_command (the script must be accessible to the user HA runs as):

configuration.yaml

shell_command:
  notifly: '/usr/local/bin/notifly-send "{{ title }}" "{{ message }}" {{ priority }}'

MQTT bridge: topic → push

No Home Assistant, but you have an MQTT broker (Zigbee2MQTT, ESPHome, DIY on ESP32)? A small subscriber turns topic messages into pushes:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# /usr/local/bin/notifly-mqtt   — MQTT → Notifly bridge
set -eu
set -a; source /etc/notifly.env; set +a

# Listen to the topics you need. -v prints "topic payload".
mosquitto_sub -h 192.168.1.10 -t 'home/#' -v | while read -r TOPIC PAYLOAD; do
    case "$TOPIC" in
        home/door/front)
            [[ "$PAYLOAD" == *'"contact":false'* ]] && \
                notifly-send "🚪 Front door opened" "" 7
            ;;
        home/leak/*)
            [[ "$PAYLOAD" == *'"water_leak":true'* ]] && \
                notifly-send "💧 Water leak: $TOPIC" "Shut off the water!" 10
            ;;
        home/washer/done)
            notifly-send "🧺 Washing done" "$PAYLOAD" 5
            ;;
    esac
done

Keep the bridge alive with systemd — /etc/systemd/system/notifly-mqtt.service:

[Unit]
Description=Notifly MQTT bridge
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/notifly-mqtt
Restart=always
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo systemctl enable --now notifly-mqtt

Windows: PowerShell for local events

If your smart-home controller runs on Windows (say, a script polls the hub’s API), send a push with the same function Send-Notifly:

# a snippet polling the door state
if ($door.state -eq "open" -and $prev -eq "closed") {
    Send-Notifly -Title "🚪 Front door opened" `
                 -Message "Time: $((Get-Date).ToString('HH:mm'))" -Priority 7
}

Benefits

• Your own push with no third-party cloud. Home events go to your infrastructure.
• Priorities by importance. A leak is 10 (gets through DND), a door is 7, a wash is 5 (see priorities).
• A single point. Your phone, laptop and tablet get the same notification at the same time.

Further improvements

• Send a snapshot from the door camera via extra fields.
• Separate channels for “home” and “cottage” to split pushes by address.
• Tie it to monitoring: if the smart-home hub goes silent — a separate alert that the system itself is down.