Top up salt alert

[steuerlexi]

Since the latest update, I receive frequent alerts informing me not to refill salt in my washing machine. How can I disable these alerts? I prefer to be notified only when there's no salt left.

[kingy444]

there is no way to disable specific alerts at the moment, you can only turn off the alerts entirely.
You can turn off the notifications entirely if you go into CONFIGURE for the integration

[kingy444]

the main issue here is the device never stops alerting (in the api) so I we cannot just treat an alert as completed. When you dismiss it HA deletes the instance of it but the API never stops telling us the issue exists.
I am able to keep it to 1 notification per alert using a unique identifier - but by definition the issue still exists (as the api is still yelling at us)

The best i think we could do is break out the above screenshotted option to each category of alert (but i dont know what all those are either)

So far have seen ALERT, WARNING and DIAGNOSTIC - so we could have 3 tick boxes instead of just one ?

[albaintor]

Hi @kingy444 I was just digging around this and just saw your latest messages.
I think that we shouldn't make it too complicated : either disable the notifications if they are annoying, and if you want some specific alerts you can configure automations for this.
Classify alerts as you suggest may be the best thing to do

[steuerlexi]

Hi @albaintor @kingy444 An Automation would be fine but there is no entity for the salt alert.

[kingy444]

For now the easiest option for you is to disable all notifications and create a template sensor based on the attribute of the alerts sensor

[Sascha-L]

I would recommend to totally remove the notifications, because none of any other integration sends notifications. It's up to the user to create an automation, if he wants a specific notification. Thanks for the hint, that there is an option in the config dialog to disable the notifications, because I was also annoyed about these new notifications.

[kingy444]

Alerts was actually a feature request 😀

There are definitely some that are useful for other devices though so I think they should stay.

I'll look at enabling the granular alert settings as mentioned above, but for instance an alert that fridge door is open is important (and has ALERT status not WARNING)

I think we just need to update the README to cover disabling them as desired. I'll probably make ALERT default on and WWARNING as off

[gregersn]

Just because it is a feature request, doesn't make it right.

I have never seen any other integration giving alerts like that in notifications, and to be hones it is a very weird place to have them.

How can I disable notifications from this integration?

[bartkummel]

I would recommend to totally remove the notifications

That's not needed, since you can disable it. Other people might find it useful!

I have some questions about alerts:

• Would there be an option to translate/localize the alerts? And apply some filters to them so they look nicer? In templates you can do things like |replace("_"," ")|capitalize to convert it from SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to something more human friendly.
• How should I interpret the following:

  Alert: DISH_ALARM_RINSE_AID_LOW
  Severity: WARNING
  Status: NOT_NEEDED
  

  The rinse aid is low, it's a warning, but then... something is not needed? I assume it's meant to say that immediate action is not needed or something? It's a bit confusing if put like this...