tags: - xmas - holiday - scenario - alexa - chime - recipe - condition title: Seasonal Greetings description: Use a Supernotify scenario to add a seasonal note to notifications, and override standard chimes with Christmas cheer

Recipe - Seasonal Greetings¶

Purpose¶

Add a Xmas, Halloween or whatever else flavour to messages;

Implementation¶

A scenario using Home Assistant date conditions that applies a message template with Amazon SSML only to specific delivery config, in this case one called alexa_general, and to the email text.

The enabled: with null value is used so that the delivery will be overridden only if its has already been selected before this scenario was applied, otherwise the scenario would add on these deliveries to every notification during the date condition period.

Example Configuration¶

Use a scenario with a condition to identify when in a date range.

The speech markup requires use of the speak rather than announce entities provided by Alexa Devices integration.

scenarios:
    xmas:
      alias: Christmas season
      conditions:
        condition: or
        conditions:
          - "{{ (12,24) <= (now().month, now().day) <= (12,31) }}"
          - "{{ (1,1) <= (now().month, now().day) <= (1,1) }}"
      delivery:
       email_general:
            data:
              message_template: '{{notification_message}} Ho Ho Ho!'
       alexa_general:
            enabled:
            data:
              message_template: '{{notification_message}}<break time="1s"><say-as interpret-as="interjection">bah humbug</say-as>'

    halloween:
      alias: Spooky season
      conditions:
        condition: and
        conditions:
          - "{{ (10,31) == (now().month, now().day) }}"
      delivery:
          alexa_general:
            enabled:
            data:
              message_template: '{{notification_message}}<break time="1s"><audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/horror/horror_04"/>'

    birthdays:
      alias: Family birthdays
      conditions:
        condition: or
        conditions:
          - "{{ (5,23) == (now().month, now().day) }}"
          - "{{ (11,9) == (now().month, now().day) }}"
      delivery:
       alexa_general:
            enabled:
            data:
              message_template: '{{notification_message}}<break time="1s"><say-as interpret-as="interjection">hip hip hooray</say-as>'

Variations¶

The Chime Transport Adaptor has lots more ways of doing this.

Set up aliases for common chimes, and a secondary seasonal version, in the Chime transport defaults:

transports:
  chime:
    delivery_defaults:
      options:
        chime_aliases:
          doorbell:
            alexa_devices: amzn_sfx_doorbell_chime_02
            switch:
              target: switch.chime_ding_dong
          xmas_doorbell: christmas_05
delivery:
  doorbell_rang:
    transport: chime
    data:
      chime_tune: doorbell

Then create a date condition scenario, that overrides the chime alias for your doorbell_rang delivery:

scenarios:
    xmas:
      alias: Christmas season
      conditions:
        condition: or
        conditions:
          - "{{ (12,24) <= (now().month, now().day) <= (12,31) }}"
          - "{{ (1,1) <= (now().month, now().day) <= (1,1) }}"
      delivery:
        doorbell_rang:
          enabled:
          data:
            chime_tune: xmas_doorbell