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Twilio Call

The twilio_call notification platform enables sending notifications via Voice, powered by Twilio. Passed message will be read by Text-to-speech service.

The requirement is that you have setup Twilio.

Configuration

To use this notification platform in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: twilio_call
    from_number: E164_PHONE_NUMBER

Configuration Variables

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from_number string Required

An E.164 formatted phone number, like +14151234567. See Twilio’s guide to formatting phone numbers for more information.

name string (Optional, default: notify)

Setting the optional parameter name allows multiple notifiers to be created. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME.

Usage

Twilio is a notification platform and thus can be controlled by calling the notify service as described here. It will send a notification to all E.164 phone numbers in the notification target. See the notes above regarding the from_number configuration variable for information about formatting phone numbers.

# Example automation notification entry
automation:
  - alias: "The sun has set"
    trigger:
      platform: sun
      event: sunset
    action:
      service: notify.twilio_call
      data:
        message: "The sun has set"
        target:
          - +14151234567
          - +15105555555