AppDaemon
Send a HTML email through HA notify service
Hi, I am trying to send a HTML email through HA notify service
This works
self.call_service('notify/email_info', title = notification_title, message = notification_body)
This also works
self.notify(notification_body, title = notification_title, name = 'email_info')
but both sends out a plain text email message. is there any way to get to the built in html message body format
This does not work
self.call_service('notify/email_info', title = notification_title, html = notification_body)
Here are the HA docs https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/smtp/
automations.yaml to send html email:
- alias: x_email
trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
seconds: /10
condition:
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.testing
state: "on"
action:
- service: notify.email_info
data:
title: 'Email From Home Assistant - title' # Email subject line
message: "Email From Home Assistant - message" # This is required, NOT used for HTML emails
data:
html: >
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/19...
this works fine. NOTE: The double 'data:' just thinking this look different to other services?
Thanks
To clarify this further, below are all the files laying out what is needed to test.
with all this config it will send three emails:
- one by HA action service (HTML WORKS JUST FINE)
- the second email by HA Python scrypt (plain text only)
- and the third bt AppDaemon Python script (plain text only)
My issues are that I CANNOT send a HTML email via AppDaemon nor HA Python script (this method will not fit my needs)
The docs for AppDaemon are not very helpful neither is the rest of the internet https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/HASS_API_REFERENCE.html#appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi.Hass.notify https://appdaemon.readthedocs.io/en/3.0.4/HASS_API_REFERENCE.html
Any help would be appreciated
configuration.yaml
python_script:
automation:
- alias: x_email_send
trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
seconds: /10
condition:
# Run if switch is on
- condition: state
entity_id: input_boolean.mail_testing
state: "on"
action:
# Send email from HA python script
- service: python_script.send_py_mail
# Send email from here (HA)
- service: notify.email_info
data:
# Email subject line
title: 'Email From Home Assistant - title'
# This is REQUIRED, but NOT used in HTML emails
message: "Email From Home Assistant - message"
data:
# HTML email body
html: >
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<h1><b>Email From Home Assistant - HTML Body</b></h1>
</body>
</html>
input_boolean:
mail_testing:
name: mail_testing
icon: mdi:sync-alert
initial: false
notify:
- name: email_info
server: !secret email_server1
sender: !secret email_sender1
sender_name: !secret email_sender1_name
platform: smtp
port: 25
timeout: 15
encryption: none
recipient:
- !secret email_address1
Then add button entity 'input_boolean.mail_testing' to the UI/dashboard so you can start/stop the emails
/config/python_scripts/send_py_mail.py
notification_title = 'Email From Python Script - title'
notification_body = 'Email From Python Script - body plain'
# Plain text working
hass.services.call('notify', 'email_info', {'title': notification_title, 'message': notification_body})
/config/appdaemon/apps.yaml
send_ad_mail:
module: send_ad_mail
class: send_ad_mail
/config/appdaemon/apps/send_ad_mail/send_ad_mail.py
import appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi as hass
class send_ad_mail(hass.Hass):
def initialize(self):
# Run every 10 seconds
self.run_every(self.run_callback, self.datetime(),10)
def run_callback(self, kwargs):
# Run if switch is on
if self.get_state('input_boolean.mail_testing') == 'on':
# Plain text working
self.notify(notification_body, title = notification_title, name = 'email_info')
# Alternative plain text working
#self.call_service('notify/email_info', title = notification_title, message = notification_body)
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/appdaemon-smtp-app/22961/8
ReneTode sorted the question
/config/appdaemon/apps/send_ad_mail/send_ad_mail.py
self.notify('aaa', title = notification_title, name = 'email_info', data = {"html": notification_body})
self.call_service('notify/email_info', message = 'aaa', data = {'html': notification_body})
Both of the above work for HTML emails from AppDaemon
from what I see in the email and internet headers of the received email, is that the ‘message’ field is required but it is not actually used for a HTML message.
This really does need some better documentation... well I guess this is it!
like i stated on the forum, this is about how to translate yaml to python dicts. i dont think its up to AD to learn people that (allthough i am always happy to help people who struggle with it on our discordserver)
For what it's worth, I wrote an App to do this, jump into discord if you are still interested
