Google API Gmail LINE Notifications Part 1

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.

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Project: Self Hosted Zapier Alternative

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? 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. 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. [Read More]

Send a notification through LINE with AppDaemon with Home Assistant

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.

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