Grouping notification devices

[SebyM]

Hi all,

Is there currently any way to group notification devices somehow ?

While using Hubitat in an office I have people joining and leaving and I need an easier way to add/remove them for notifications, instead of going into each app/rule I'd love to be able to add them to a group (say Warnings - like 'ya left the fridge door open', Arming Alerts - like 'everyone left and the office is not armed!!', Critical - like 'A thief is on premise!!!')

[mark.cockcroft]

You could try the follow me app mabey
It creates a single notification device which you could use in rules then the app farms out the messages

It's a guess you would have to give it a try

[bertabcd1234]

Never used Follow Me, and maybe it would work too; otherwise, this is an app and driver "Notification Proxy" that I threw together for myself a while back that sounds like exactly what you were looking for:

Global Notification Device Variable?

Try this Notification Proxy app and driver combo I wrote to address this need for myself. You can create a virtual device using the proxy driver, then you can use that virtual device in all of your rules/apps instead of the real ones. The Notification Proxy app allows you to assign "real" devices to that virtual device and switch them out at will. (You can also create multiple virtual devices for different needs--I have one that only does my mobile devices and one that does those plus my tablet…

[UKMedia]

I have created a Global Variable called 'Notification', along with a rule called 'Sub Notification', which outputs a standard Notification message plus the Notification GV.

I then use the Action 'Run Actions', please see below. This means that I only have to maintain the Rule 'Sub Notification'.

Sub Notification Rule:

Edit: I use the prefix 'Sub' to indicate a rule with no triggers, that is called from other Rules.

[SebyM]

Hi and thank you for the links.

I've used this app/driver combo, seems to work so far.
One note, I've added the app twice to use two proxies.

[SebyM]

Aaaand I went overboard a little and also created a Presence device called Everyone that a Rule Machine rule updates.

Trigger: when Presence of [X,Y,Z] changed
Actions:
IF (X,Y,Z any present) then
Run custom action Everyone.arrived() //this is more like Someone/Anyone but well...
ELSE
IF (X,Y,Z all not present) then
Run custom action Everyone.departed()
ENDIF
ENDIF

Now I can also use Everyone to know if there are people in the office, and I only need to add the people in this one rule.

Maybe sometime I'll add this into the code for the app. Sometime...