Rocket.Chat


The rocketchat notify platform allows you to send messages to your Rocket.Chat instance from Home Assistant.

Configuration

To add Rocket.Chat to your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - platform: rocketchat
    name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    url: https://rocketchat.example.com
    username: YOUR_USERNAME
    password: YOUR_PASSWORD
    room: YOUR_ROOM_NAME
  • name (Optional): Name displayed in the frontend. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME.
  • url (Required): The URL of your Rocket.Chat instance.
  • username (Required): The Rocket.Chat username.
  • password (Required): The Rocker.Chat password.
  • room (Required): The chat room name to send messages to.

Script example

rocketchat_notification:
  sequence:
  - service: notify.NOTIFIER_NAME
    data:
      message: "Message to Rocket.Chat from Home Assistant!"
      data:
        emoji: ":smirk:"

Message variables

  • message (Required): Message to be displayed.
  • data (Optional): Dictionary containing any of the variables defined in the Rocket.Chat documentation

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