# Recipe - Notify Someone Who Isn't a Home Assistant User

Source: https://supernotify.rhizomatics.org.uk/latest/recipes/recipient_without_account/

## Purpose

Keep someone in the loop who has no Home Assistant account, like a relative, a neighbour keeping an eye on the house, or a cleaner. Notify them by e-mail and Telegram, without repeating their address and chat id in every automation.

## Implementation

A **Recipient** added by name in the integration, with their e-mail address, and their Telegram chat id as a custom target. No YAML is needed.

Supernotify gives them a recipient id, `user.` followed by their name in lower case with underscores, and a *Notify Entity*, `notify.recipient_` followed by the same. Either can be used as a target, and stands in for everything set up for them - the e-mail delivery gets their e-mail address, and the Telegram delivery gets their chat id.

## Prerequisites

- The [email transport](https://supernotify.rhizomatics.org.uk/latest/transports/email/index.md) with a mail server connection, of its own or reused from the SMTP integration
- The [Telegram Bot](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/telegram_bot) integration, with the recipient's chat id allowed. The [telegram transport](https://supernotify.rhizomatics.org.uk/latest/transports/telegram/index.md) is set up automatically once it is there
- Their Telegram chat id - one way to find it is to have them message the bot, and look at the `telegram_text` event in *Developer Tools → Events*

## Adding the Recipient

Go to *Settings → Devices & services → Supernotify → Add recipient*.

1. Give their **Name**, such as `Granny Smith`, leaving **Person** and **User** empty
1. Fill in:
   - **E-mail address** - `granny@example.com`
   - **Custom targets** - `telegram_chat_id:215678938`

That's it. They're listed under the integration as *Recipient - Granny Smith*, with `notify.recipient_granny_smith` and `switch.supernotify_recipient_granny_smith` entities.

## Sending Notifications

Address them by their recipient id:

```yaml
action: supernotify.notify
data:
  title: Sunday lunch
  message: Roast at 1pm
  target: user.granny_smith
```

or their notify entity, from anything that takes a standard Home Assistant notify target:

```yaml
action: notify.send_message
target:
  entity_id: notify.recipient_granny_smith
data:
  title: Sunday lunch
  message: Roast at 1pm
```

Either sends an e-mail to `granny@example.com`, and a Telegram message to chat `215678938`. Their recipient id can also be mixed in with other targets, such as `person.bob`.

Only the deliveries that are selected

A recipient is only sent to by the deliveries selected for the notification. If the e-mail or Telegram delivery is only used when asked for - its **Inclusion** is `explicit` or `scenario`, or **Default Inclusion** is `explicit` in the integration's *Delivery Control* options - nothing is sent to them unless the notification names the delivery, or a scenario switches it on. That can mean nothing at all for someone with no mobile devices, and the archived notification lists them under `unassigned_targets`.

To always use a delivery for them, change their recipient, and under **Advanced - Delivery Overrides** set **Deliveries** to:

```yaml
email:
  enabled: true
telegram:
  enabled: true
```

See [Enabling a Delivery Just for One Recipient](https://supernotify.rhizomatics.org.uk/latest/configuration/people/#enabling-a-delivery-just-for-one-recipient).

A notification with no `target` goes to every recipient, so they get those too. To keep them off one delivery, use **Advanced - Delivery Overrides** on their recipient - see [Disabling a Delivery for One Recipient](https://supernotify.rhizomatics.org.uk/latest/configuration/people/#disabling-a-delivery-for-one-recipient). To pause them altogether for a while, turn off their switch.

## Variations

- Add a **Phone number** too, for an SMS delivery
- Other custom targets work the same way, such as a `discord_channel:` for the [discord transport](https://supernotify.rhizomatics.org.uk/latest/transports/discord/index.md)

## See Also

- [People](https://supernotify.rhizomatics.org.uk/latest/configuration/people/index.md)
- [Targets](https://supernotify.rhizomatics.org.uk/latest/usage/targets/index.md)