How do I...

[dstrohl]

OK, again, I apologize for not understanding things well enough. I think that most of the questions that I have relate to how the sections relate to each other. Specifically...

1. If I want to setup a notification that uses TTS on 3 of my 5 media devices,

• do I need to setup recipients for these?
• do I setup each of the devices as an individual recipient or target... then do I reference all three in the notification? or do I setup a notification group using the normal HA notification group function? or setup one recipient with all three devices?
• then... how to I reference that? the examples all seem to show referencing either people.name, or key.text (like "phone.1234567890")

2. if I have a person (recipient) defined with a phone number, mobile device, and email address, how do I setup something that first sends out a persistent message using the mobile device, then if that isn't cleared in x minutes, send a text, then if that isn't responded to by x minutes, send an email. then finally, use TTS to announce to the whole house. (I assume that much of that is in the automation, mostly I'm wondering... if I've defined all options in a recipient, is there a priority that it will only send to one of those? or can I say send to "person:dan:phone" (or something)

3. in looking at the "area, floor, and label targets" section, if I define a label_id and an area_id, and in that area I have 3 devices, is the label_id treated as an AND? (so it will send to just devices in label_id hat have label_id), or an OR, (so it sends to all devices that are in area_id, as well as all devices in the system that have label_id?)

[jeyrb]

1. You only need recipients for real people - they could have a media_player assigned, if for example you want to target a speaker in their personal workspace, but that's probably an edge case.

If the speakers have an area, floor or label assigned, then you can use one of those as a selector to bulk select. Otherwise, create a delivery like one of mine, with a specific list of targets

    alexa_inform:
      alias: Alexa speaking rather than announcing via all Echo devices
      transport: alexa_devices
      target:
        - notify.bedroom_speak
        - notify.kitchen_alexa_speak
        - notify.living_room_flex_speak
        - notify.studio_speak

You can then choose alexa_inform from the delivery choice on any notification action.

2. That's not available yet, though its being discussed here, and some way of acknowledging the message to stop further escalation.

3. The area/label thing is done as part of the standard Home Assistant target selectors (https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/blueprint/selectors/#target-selector) so happens before it gets to the actual Supernotify notification. It works as an OR selector - give me all everything that is in area X OR has label Y. Wish HomeAssistant made that clearer.