Facebook Messenger

The facebook notification integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] enables sending notifications via Facebook Messenger, powered by Facebook.

To use this notification integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file. After changing the configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file, restart Home Assistant to apply the changes. The integration is now shown on the integrations page under Settings > Devices & services. Its entities are listed on the integration card itself and on the Entities tab.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: facebook
    page_access_token: FACEBOOK_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN

Usage

With Facebook notify action, you can send your notifications to your Facebook messenger with help of your Facebook page. You have to create a Facebook Page and App for this action. You can control it by calling the notify action as described here. It will send a message on messenger to user specified by target on behalf of your page. See the quick start guide for more information. The phone number used in target should be registered with Facebook messenger. Phone number of the recipient should be in +1(212)555-2368 format. If your app is not approved by Facebook then the recipient should by either admin, developer or tester for your Facebook app. More information about the phone number.

# Example automation notification entry
automation:
  - alias: "Evening Greeting"
    triggers:
      - trigger: sun
        event: sunset
    actions:
      - action: notify.facebook
        data:
          message: "Good Evening"
          target:
            - '+919413017584'
            - '+919784516314'

You can also send messages to users that do not have stored their phone number on Facebook, but this requires a bit more work. The Messenger platform uses page-specific user IDs instead of a global user ID. You will need to enable a webhook for the “messages” event in Facebook’s developer console. Once a user writes a message to a page, that webhook will then receive the user’s page specific ID as part of the webhook’s payload. Below is a simple PHP script that reacts to the message “get my id” and sends a reply containing the user’s ID:

<?php

$access_token = "";
$verify_token = "";

if (isset($_REQUEST['hub_challenge'])) {
    $challenge        = $_REQUEST['hub_challenge'];
    $hub_verify_token = $_REQUEST['hub_verify_token'];

    if ($hub_verify_token === $verify_token) {
        echo $challenge;
    }
}

$input   = json_decode(file_get_contents('php://input'), true);
$sender  = $input['entry'][0]['messaging'][0]['sender']['id'];
$message = $input['entry'][0]['messaging'][0]['message']['text'];

if (preg_match('/get my id/', strtolower($message))) {
    $url      = 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.10/me/messages?access_token=' . $access_token;
    $ch       = curl_init($url);
    $jsonData = '{
        "recipient":{
            "id":"' . $sender . '"
        },
        "message":{
            "text":"Your ID: ' . $sender . '"
        }
      }';

    $jsonDataEncoded = $jsonData;
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $jsonDataEncoded);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']);

    if (!empty($input['entry'][0]['messaging'][0]['message'])) {
        $result = curl_exec($ch);
    }
}

Rich messages

You could also send rich messing (cards, buttons, images, videos, etc). Info to which types of messages and how to build them.

# Example script with a notification entry with a rich message

script:
  test_fb_notification:
    sequence:
      - action: notify.facebook
        data:
          message: Some text before the quick replies
          target: 0034643123212
          data:
            quick_replies:
              - content_type: text
                title: Red
                payload: DEVELOPER_DEFINED_PAYLOAD_FOR_PICKING_RED
              - content_type: text
                title: Blue
                payload: DEVELOPER_DEFINED_PAYLOAD_FOR_PICKING_BLUE