home-assistant-sendgrid

The SendGrid Home Assistant notification component allows you to send notifications from Home Assistant to an email recipient via SendGrid. Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform. SendGrid is a proven cloud-based email platform.

This was accepted upstream and will be included in the 0.14 release of Home Assistant: home-assistant/core#1419

Installation

Place sendgrid.py in <config directory>/custom_components/. For more information, check out Home Assistant's custom components.

Configuration

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

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  name: NOTIFIER_NAME
  platform: sendgrid
  api_key: API_KEY
  sender: SENDER_EMAIL_ADDRESS
  recipient: YOUR_RECIPIENT

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.
• api_key (Required): SendGrid API key - https://app.sendgrid.com/settings/api_keys
• sender (Required): E-mail address of the sender.
• recipient (Required): Recipient of the notification.