Webhooks: The Universal Home Assistant Integration

This week we are diving deeper into the realm of Webhooks. Because they have the power to expand the reach of your smart home.

With a webhook you can not only trigger an automation, but you can pass data to your #homeassistant powered #smarthome. Meaning if a service or a device can call a webhook you can integrate it into Home Assistant. Think of Webhooks as a Universal Translator for Smart Home Services.

In this video we are going to walk through using iOS Shortcuts, and If this Than That (IFTTT), and we will touch on Zapier. And by the end of the video you will be able to harness the power of this simple built-in integration.

Chapters:
00:00 - Use Webhooks to Integrate Anything in Home Assistant - Intro
01:38 - Using iOS Shortcuts to call a Home Assistant Webhook
05:11 - Integrate any IFTTT Service into Home Assistant
07:15 - Using IFTTT to call a Home Assistant Webhook

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My Name is Jeff. I am an DIY-er and Automator of boring things. And, of course, a huge Home Assistant fan. Oh, I also live in a house that tweets.

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[SmartHomeMakers]

Great video and cool use case with the iOS we hook, got me thinking :)

[arkadian-labs]

great tutorial, thanks for sharing Jeff.

[syukrishahabuddin]

Nice tutorial. I am using this to pass on a message input that would have either a notify or TTS or Assistant Relay command as action. I basically have a shortcuts button to prompt a notification to my wife, to broadcast TTS over nest mini and/or to trigger my smart devices using webhook through HA instead of linking an action to iOS shortcuts.

[vPeteWalker]

I don't use IOS or IFTTT, so I would have loved you to show off a method just using software on the PC (like Postman or Insomnia). Thank you!

[Mr-Coke]

Hello, very nice video. Can you send a post command from homeassistant to a webhook from a other service too? with a specified message in it?

[aaronp]

can you fo a video on sending a webhook from home assistant as an action

[russtuff]

This is exactly what I was looking for!
How would you go about adding a condition based on what's in the JSON payload? I only want the action to take place if the message contains specific words, but nothing I've tried has worked.

[AshishK-el]

Can you let me know if we can integrate RTI AND ELAN controllers in home assistant

[poweringindependence]

Maybe i'm missing something. But this video is about using webhooks as a trigger for home assistant automation. Can you also use it the other way around?
Let Homeassistant send a webhook to Zapier? So for instance. If my garbage container is full i can scan the NFC tag connected to home assistant and it will send a webhook to Zapier, and Zapier will send a email through Gmail to the garbage company asking them to empty the container? This is what i'm looking for.

[ofcorsin]

Very nice video, thanks! I can now toggle on and off my lights with my Kronaby Smartwatch (Watch is only IFTTT compatible and the lights are Home Assistant compatible)

[kodeypatterson]

Just discovered this as well.. Love the video but lost me when you went into IFTT

[Mr-Coke]

Hello, i want to use an webhook to lets talk alexa a message. This works fine, but can i set an command that alexa is speaking the text which i send in the post message?

[BeardedTinker]

Nice video Jeff!! Should use webhooks more in my setup! I think I use them only in Synology integration to get notified if it detects motion on cameras.

[federicos]

My webhooks automation triggered by external nabu url works whenever it wants, it’s not reliable at all, is that normal? I’m doing exactly as in your video and running the nabu URL in shortcuts 😟

[enricodalonzo]

Great video! Do you know how to send back a message from home assistant to the webhook sender? I am trying to connect google actions to home assistant via node red. I am able to send webhook to home assistant but not to reply.

[waynenocton]

I just can’t follow the JSON stuff, anyone know of a reasonably priced online class where I can learn this stuff?

[PrimalDashes]

'After some crude remarks about it's intimate relationship with it's mother..." sounds like me with issues too lol

[michaelsorensen]

Very helpful, thank you! Is there a way to store the "message" in a variable that can be displayed in a lovelace dashboard? I have a webhook sending a message that gets updated every minute. Hoping to have my dashboard text updated each time the webhook is updated.

[KennethWill-jbox]

How do you go about giving someone a weblink. When they visit that weblink, it turns on one of my lights? I've got the HA part, but not sure which weblink to give them. I get lost on the post method part. I keep seeing that you can't trigger from a browser, but it's clear that there is a way, as I've seen people do it.

[kerbalette]

What’s the security implications for allowing an outside untrusted device to run any automation/device action?