v0.4.5

🚀 Universal Notifier: Last version with YAML configuration, next version will be with UI integration. I hope..

This is a pre-release, use it as a beta app

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGE: Dynamic Targeting for Voice Notifications
The most significant update is the transition to Dynamic Runtime Targeting. You are no longer required to hardcode a single target or media_player in your configuration.yaml.

universal_notifier:
  channels:
    amazon_alexa
      service: notify.alexa_media_echo_dot
      is_voice: true
    google_home:
      service: tts.speak
      target: tts.google_translate_it_it
      is_voice: true

action: universal_notifier.send
data:
  message: "Water leak detected in the basement!"
  priority: true
  targets: 
    - google_home_tts
  target_data:
    google_home_tts:
      entity_id: media_player.google_nest_hub

🛠 Core Improvements

• Intelligent Queueing (FIFO): Voice notifications are now handled by a background worker using asyncio.Queue. This prevents audio overlapping by playing messages sequentially.
• Snapshot & Resume 2.0: Improved state capturing. The system saves the state (volume, track, and app) of media players before a notification and tries to restore it only after the entire queue is empty.
• Smart Volume Management: Priority Volume: Introduced a dedicated volume level for emergency/priority alerts.
• Time-Slot Awareness: Automatic volume adjustment based on the time of day (e.g., softer at night, louder during the day).
  Content Sanitization: Automatic removal of URLs and Markdown characters specifically for TTS engines to ensure natural-sounding speech.

📊 Monitoring & Diagnostics

• Dynamic Volume Sensor: A real-time sensor that displays the exact volume percentage to be used for the next notification, automatically calculated based on the current active time slot.
• DND Binary Sensor: A dedicated entity that clearly indicates whether "Do Not Disturb" mode is currently active or inactive.

What's Changed

• Update init.py by @jumping2000 in #6

Full Changelog: v.0.3.3...v0.4.5

Improvments in voice assistant

1. Voice notifications use asyncio.Queue
2. UniNotifier tries to resume previous streaming on GH/Nest
3. Also title is bolded when you choose "bold_prefix"

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Universal Notifier is a custom Home Assistant component that centralizes and enhances notification management.
It manages:

🔹Telegram (with telegram_bot integration)
🔹Companion app
🔹Other messages systems like Pushover and Pushbullet
🔹TTS Speak
🔹Amazon Alexa

What's Changed

• Test by @jumping2000 in #8

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...v0.4.4

New improvment: resume streaming on GH/NEst

1. Voice notifications use asyncio.Queue
2. UniNotifier tries to resume previous streaming on GH/Nest
3. Also title is bolded when you choose "bold_prefix"

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Universal Notifier is a custom Home Assistant component that centralizes and enhances notification management.
It manages:

🔹Telegram (with telegram_bot integration)
🔹Companion app
🔹Other messages systems like Pushover and Pushbullet
🔹TTS Speak
🔹Amazon Alexa

Added queue for voice notification

Voice notifications now use asyncio.Queue: no more voice interruption.

---

Universal Notifier is a custom Home Assistant component that centralizes and enhances notification management.
It manages:

🔹Telegram (with telegram_bot integration)
🔹Companion app
🔹Other messages systems like Pushover and Pushbullet
🔹TTS Speak
🔹Amazon Alexa

Added a true queue for voice notifications

Voice notifications now use asyncio.Queue: no more voice interruption.

---

Universal Notifier is a custom Home Assistant component that centralizes and enhances notification management.
It manages:

🔹Telegram (with telegram_bot integration)
🔹Companion app
🔹Other messages systems like Pushover and Pushbullet
🔹TTS Speak
🔹Amazon Alexa

bug fix and improvment

1. fixed bugs of v0.3.1,
2. improved managemenr of title in both audio and text messages

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Universal Notifier is a custom Home Assistant component that centralizes and enhances notification management.
It manages:

Telegram (with telegram_bot integration)
Companion app
Other messages systems like Pushover and Pushbullet
TTS Speak
Amazon Alexa

bug fix

fixed bugs in v0.3.1, I hope...

---

Universal Notifier is a custom Home Assistant component that centralizes and enhances notification management.
It manages:

Telegram (with telegram_bot integration)
Companion app
Other messages systems like Pushover and Pushbullet
TTS Speak
Amazon Alexa

Bold Prefix - Minor fixes

Bold prefix choice: if active, the assistant name and time will be bolded in visual notifications (supports HTML/Markdown).

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Universal Notifier is a custom Home Assistant component that centralizes and enhances notification management.
It manages these channels:

• Telegram (with telegram_bot integration)
• Companion app
• Other messages systems like Pushover and Pushbullet
• TTS Speak
• Amazon Alexa

General optimization

Some optimization in every managed channels .

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Universal Notifier is a custom Home Assistant component that centralizes and enhances notification management.
It manages these channels:

• Telegram (with telegram_bot integration)
• Companion app
• Other messages systems like Pushover and Pushbullet
• TTS Speak
• Amazon Alexa

Some minor fixes

Universal Notifier is a custom Home Assistant component that centralizes and enhances notification management.
It manages:

• Telegram (with telegram_bot integration)
• Companion app
• Other messages systems like Pushover and Pushbullet
• TTS Speak
• Amazon Alexa