Home Assistant

Syslog

The syslog platform allows you to deliver notifications from Home Assistant to the local syslog.

To enable syslog notifications in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  - name: NOTIFIER_NAME
    platform: syslog

Configuration variables:

  • name (Optional): Setting the optional parameter name allows multiple notifiers to be created. The default value is notify. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME.
  • facility (Optional): Facility according to RFC 3164 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164). Default is ‘syslog’ if no value is given. Check the table below for entries.
  • option (Optional): Log option. Default is ‘pid’ if no value is given. Check the table below for entries.
  • priority (Optional): Priority of the messages. Default is ‘info’ if no value is given. Check the table below for entries.

The table contains values to use in your configuration.yaml file.

facility option priority
kernel pid 5
user cons 4
mail ndelay 3
daemon nowait 2
auth perror 1
LPR   0
news   -1
uucp   -2
cron    
syslog    
local0    
local1    
local2    
local3    
local4    
local5    
local6    
local7    

For details about facility, option, and priority please consult the wikipedia article and RFC 3164.

To use notifications, please see the getting started with automation page.