home-assistant/core

Core integration Alerts appears to no longer render template data in notifications

frederickjh opened this issue · 2 comments

frederickjh commented

The problem

Previously using a template, {{ now().strftime("%H:%M.%S") }}, to render the current time in an Alert notifications worked. Now the template is sent as part of the message.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.10.1

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

alert

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alert

Diagnostics information

home-assistant_alert_2024-10-23T17-56-10.426Z.log

Example YAML snippet

alert:
  electric_fencer:
    name: '{{ now().strftime("%H:%M.%S") }} Electric fencer is not using power'
    done_message: clear_notification
    entity_id: binary_sensor.electric_fencer_plug_device_in_use
    state: "off"
    repeat:
      - 5
    can_acknowledge: false
    notifiers:
      - mobile_app_frederick_s_sm_a515f
      - mobile_app_nokia_g42_5g
    data:
      tag: electric_fencer
      group: Electric Fencer
      clickAction: /food-forest
      persistent: true
      sticky: true
      channel: electric_fencer

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

This may be related to the following recent issues that also seem to be about templates not being rendered in Alert notifications.

#128557
#121607

home-assistant commented

Hey there @home-assistant/core, @frenck, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (alert) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!

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frederickjh commented

I not sure what changed, but I just figured out that the title: variable does allow for templates. There is no mention of templates being accepted in the name: variable. Previously I just had the name: variable set. Now I have it and the title: and message: variable set with the template in the title:.

So, I am closing this as is should have read the documentation better, as it does not appear to be an issue.