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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 10 months 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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