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Integration Guide: Home Assistant

Send real-time SMS alerts or voice text-to-speech calls from your smart home automation system using ClickSend and Home Assistant.

Updated over 3 weeks ago

Send SMS from Home Assistant

To send SMS messages through ClickSend, follow these steps:

Setup

  1. Visit the official Home Assistant guide:

    • Notify with [ClickSend setup]

  2. Add the provided configuration in your configuration.yaml file.


Trigger SMS Automatically

Once configured, call the service:

[notify.clicksend]

with the following service data:

json
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{
"message": "This is an example SMS message!"
}

You can use this in automations to notify you when events happen (e.g., motion detected, door opened, etc.)


Send Voice (Text-to-Speech) Call

ClickSend also supports sending voice calls by converting text to speech.

Setup

  1. Visit the official Home Assistant TTS guide:

    • [ClickSend TTS setup]

  2. Add the necessary configuration to your configuration.yaml file.

Trigger Voice Call Automatically

Once configured, call the service:

 clicksend_tts.send_say_call

with the following service data:

json
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{
"message": "This is an example voice call!"
}

This can be used for more urgent or attention-grabbing alerts through phone calls.

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