Mastodon
The mastodon
platform uses Mastodon to deliver notifications from Home Assistant.
Setup
Go to Preferences in the Mastodon web interface, then to Development and create a new application. If you want to grant only required accesses, uncheck all checkboxes then check only read:accounts and write:statuses.
Configuration
To add Mastodon to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml
The configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file.
After changing the configuration.yaml
The configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI.[Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. To view the changes, go to Settings > Devices & services > Entities.
# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
- name: NOTIFIER_NAME
platform: mastodon
access_token: !secret mastodon_access_token
client_id: !secret mastodon_client_id
client_secret: !secret mastodon_client_secret
Configuration Variables
The optional parameter name allows multiple notifiers to be created. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME.
URL of the Mastodon instance to use.
To use notifications, please see the getting started with automation page.