New notify entity platform
The notify platform is now available as an entity platform. The MVP for the new notify platform implements the method and service send_message. It accepts message as a required attribute.
Unlike the legacy notify.notify service we have no targets as argument, as it is an entity we can target multiple notify entities when calling send_message.
The architecture discussion is ongoing, and is about the device classes to implement and the implementation of recipient support in the form of contacts via a contact registry.
Existing integrations that implement the legacy notify services will be migrated in phases. The first step is to migrate the integrations than only use message as a parameter to notify.
The integrations identified for migration are:
- circuit
- clickatell
- clicksend
- command_line
- demo
- ecobee
- flock
- free_mobile
- knx
- mastodon
As soon as we have title and/or recipient support we can migrate more integrations to use the new platform.
When integrations are migrated, users will need to use the new notify.send_message service, so the migration changes will cause automations to break after the deprecation period is over.