#can someone help me with notify groups?
calm lily
Outside of the Frigate blueprint, can you try making an automation and just saying Call Service -> notify.your_phone_group to make sure that group is working?
calm lily
You running into the same issue though?
I'm not, just trying to replicate your issue.
lyric rose
i'm pretty sure (no expert) that the indentation is incorrect for the 'all_phones' group as well as the 'zones' and 'labels' parts of your automation
burnt sphinx
I would be able to see that group in my entities if it was working I'd assume. I can with the groups created with group helper
calm lily
i'm pretty sure (no expert) that the indentation is incorrect for the 'all_phone...
I agree, which is why I was saying let's test the group first without the variable of the frigate blueprint.
lyric rose
yeah. i tried blueprints once and didn't care for them
calm lily
I would be able to see that group in my entities if it was working I'd assume. I...
Mine don't show up as entities. They do show up if I type "notify.my_group_name" in "Call a Service"
Stuff like Window and light groups show up as entities. I don't think notification groups work the same way, but I could be wrong.
If your groups aren't in the dropdown for the Service field when you type "notify." then they haven't been created, and I believe that indentation issue is where you should return to.
calm lily
Well, I haven't torn apart the blueprint to see how it works, but...
I saw this field where you have "notify_group: all_phones"
Have you tried, "notify_group: notify.all_phones" ?
burnt sphinx
I can try that. One sec. Weird that it worked fine before though too. Something had to have changed but I will check. Thank you for helping so far!
Unknown device 'False' error still with notify.all_phones set
I think I got it figured out. There are two sections on the blueprint. One is a specific device and the other is group the group. Sounds like I still need something entered in it for the automation to be happy.
"Select a device that runs the official Home Assistant app to receive notifications. If you wish to notify a group of devices or and Android/Fire TV use the field below to override this selection. This will be ignored in that case but it still required."
I just tested it and that does indeed work. Very odd though. Thank you very much