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[204.32 --> 212.74] But one of the things I honestly don't really know how to do well in home assistant is actually how to send out notifications to external messaging platforms like, say, Telegram.
[212.84 --> 214.72] I could send her a Telegram message, for example.
[214.92 --> 216.26] I've never done that with home assistant.
[216.38 --> 217.80] I'm not even sure if that's the right way.
[218.16 --> 222.88] And I'm just wondering if people do something like this and what they've done and if they could share it with me.
[222.92 --> 223.48] Have you done?
[224.36 --> 225.72] Have you done anything like this?
[225.72 --> 229.40] Do you let Kat know like any kind of automations for when you're traveling or stuff like that?
[229.82 --> 235.28] I don't specifically send notifications from home assistant, but we've covered what I think will end up being your solution.
[235.72 --> 236.78] Do you remember AppRise?
[237.40 --> 238.44] No, no.
[238.66 --> 238.96] Geez.
[239.26 --> 241.66] Well, we covered this on the show back in episode 48.
[242.16 --> 247.54] An AppRise is basically just a notification kind of consolidation framework.
[247.72 --> 254.04] So rather than you having to integrate Home Assistant with three or four different notification services,
[254.04 --> 260.92] you integrate with AppRise and then they integrate with Telegram or Pushover or whatever it might be.
[261.58 --> 266.10] And so you can just configure in Home Assistant using the AppRise URL that you have,
[266.52 --> 271.36] send a notification containing this content, and you can do all the kind of interesting
[271.36 --> 275.12] templating state stuff you can do with Home Assistant's templating language.
[275.36 --> 280.96] You can configure that to be the notification, you know, with your current location and estimated time
[280.96 --> 282.88] to come back, that kind of stuff.
[283.42 --> 287.76] And then that way, if you ever want to dump Telegram for something else, a little more freedom
[287.76 --> 290.48] respecting, that seems to be your current trajectory at the moment.
[291.14 --> 295.42] You know, you can do that without having to completely rewrite everything in Home Assistant.
[295.42 --> 298.80] This is exactly what I need to dig into, isn't it?
[299.36 --> 300.78] I am so glad you remembered this.
[301.46 --> 302.10] You're right.
[302.26 --> 305.86] And I also could definitely see moving away from Telegram.
[306.04 --> 309.00] I do not like the trajectory of Telegram in general.
[309.14 --> 311.48] And I've been experimenting with Fluffy Chat.
[312.34 --> 313.52] Yes, Fluffy Chat.
[313.90 --> 316.64] That is a Silicon Valley whiteboard.
[317.12 --> 318.30] I can just picture it right now.
[318.36 --> 322.06] There's 15 different app names and they've circled Fluffy Chat as the one.
[322.20 --> 322.94] Oh, my God.
[322.94 --> 326.74] But maybe the cute name will help with spousal approval factor.
[327.10 --> 327.60] I don't know.
[327.70 --> 331.84] Maybe it's an early days Telegram when the Telegram UI was a lot simpler.
[332.00 --> 334.22] It looks a lot like that, but it's a front end to Matrix.
[334.94 --> 339.02] So I'm hoping maybe I could move some family members that direction.
[339.58 --> 345.54] Now, in terms of triggers on the Android side, I'm not sure quite what Graphene or Calix or
[345.54 --> 347.34] wherever you're on this week supports.
[347.74 --> 352.58] But what I'd probably be tempted to do is look into, are you familiar with Tasker?
[352.94 --> 353.36] Yes.
[353.36 --> 354.92] I used to use Tasker back in the day.
[355.22 --> 355.34] Yeah.
[355.42 --> 358.16] It's not the most user-friendly of applications.
[358.16 --> 365.04] It does take quite a few batteries to be included before it is usable by humans, in my opinion.
[365.30 --> 373.26] But for more complex automations and the stuff like you're talking about, Apple do the plumbing for you on shortcuts.
[373.26 --> 379.44] On the Android side, obviously, you know, user build its own fiefdom instead.
[380.30 --> 381.58] That's probably what you want to look at.
[381.64 --> 382.40] Something like Tasker.
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[531.02 --> 543.22] Now, talking of privacy respecting changes, this week I've made a change on my personal blog that I've been meaning to make for a year plus.