Part 2 in a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.

This will be a series of articles on implementing a notification system using Gmail and Line Bot.
The goal here is to be able to query gmail for a select set of emails. Process them and then send a notification. This could be altered to work with a Bot of some other service.

As part of my project Self Hosted Zapier Alternative; I am having to deal with doing regex searches against the three Japanese written forms, Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana.

I am currently in the process of working out how I might replace some of my Zapier services. Why would I want to do this?

1. I use the free tier. (The process only runs once every 15 minutes. It used to be once every 5 mins.) Which means it has become a bit slow in sending the notifications.
2. I want to learn how to use Docker

Once I get a bit further along I will hopefully publish the python code to GitHub and document some of the issues and successes as I move along. Check the Projects page section if you are interested.

The challenge

Living in Japan we generally default to using LINE for our messaging needs. At the time of this writing there is no integration for LINE within Home Assistant. Currently I use PushOver for some of my Home Assistant notifications. I also use Zapier with email to trigger notifications to my family LINE group. You can see how I did this here and here.

So I finally thought it was time to start doing some continuous integration testing as well as testing with multiple versions of Python.