REST

The rest notification platform allows you to deliver RESTful notifications from Home Assistant to another party.

To enable the REST notification in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: rest
    resource: http://IP_ADDRESS/ENDPOINT

Configuration variables:

• name (Optional): Setting the optional parameter name allows multiple notifiers to be created. The default value is notify. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME.
• resource (Required): The resource or endpoint that will receive the value.
• method (Optional): The method of the request. Default is GET.
• message_param_name (Optional): Parameter name for the message. Defaults to message.
• title_param_name (Optional): Parameter name for the title. Defaults to none.
• target_param_name (Optional): Parameter name for the target. Defaults to none.
• data (Optional): Dictionary of extra parameters to send to the resource.
• data_template (Optional): Template dictionary of extra parameters to send to the resource.

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