Pushbullet to specific device

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I’m using the pushbullit plugin. It sends messages to my desktop without a problem. However, I would like to have the message sent to my phone, so I installed pushbullet as app on my windows phone. It appears as device in my pushbullet dashboard.with name “Windows Phone”

I changed my config like this:

{
“plugin”: “pushbullet”,
“device”: “Windows Phone”,
“apikey”: “…l8d”
},

this is my rule, which evaluates false:

{
“id”: “deurbelpushbullet-2”,
“name”: “DeurbelPushBullet 2”,
“string”: “if Ikea Lamp is turned on then push title:“De bel gaat” message:”/home/pi/newpicture.jpg" type:“file”",
“active”: true,
“valid”: true,
“logging”: true,
“conditionToken”: “Ikea Lamp is turned on”,
“actionsToken”: “push title:“De bel gaat” message:”/home/pi/newpicture.jpg" type:“file”",
“error”: null
}

(don’t think about why I would like to have a picture sent when the light is turned on, it’s just a test)

But I get this message:

2015-09-01 22:14:48error [pimatic]: Error on evaluation of rule condition of rule deurbelpushbullet-2: The param ‘device_iden’ has an invalid value.
22:14:48error [pimatic]: rule deurbelpushbullet-2 error executing an action: The param ‘device_iden’ has an invalid value.>!

Any idea?

@vanturenhout I am just doing guess work here. Are you shure the name of your device is actually the device id (device_iden as named by the pushbullet API? To obtain the device id this should work as follows (sneaked from https://couchpota.to/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5013):

• go to pushbullet website
• click your device from the " device list " on the left
• look at the URL, it’ll say " https://www.pushbullet.com/?device_iden=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
• pick the value from there and enter it in the device field

If device_iden contain the name you have assigned, the space char will be escaped for sure. Hope thos helps as it will be used as part of URLs.

I didn’t even know that it is possible to send to a specific device. Is it also possible to define multiple ‘pushbullet devices’ in pimatic with different device to send to? I could send urgent messages to all users, but admin related stuff only to my smartphone.

@Anduril said:

Is it also possible to define multiple ‘pushbullet devices’ in pimatic with different device to send to?

No, unfortunately, this is not possible at present.

@mwittig This answer helped me out, it looks a little different in the url, but it works now. Nice, thanks
( the URL for the devices looks like “https://www.pushbullet.com/#devices/AbabAbabbabaBAbbab”)

@vanturenhout Great!

Does it mean, the value for the “device” property of the plugin configuration is “AbabAbabbabaBAbbab”? Just asking as I would be happy to document it as part iof the README

@mwittig Correct:

{
“plugin”: “pushbullet”,
“device”: “AbababAbbababaABBa”,
“apikey”: “xyXYxyyxyxyXYyxyAPIxx”
},

@vanturenhout Thanks!

I’m sorry to reply to an old topic, but is it also possible to send notifications to multiple accounts with different API keys? For example, my gf has a different API key than I have.

@mwittig I know this is a quite old thread but I wonder if supporting multiple devices will be possible at some point…?

@GuybrushMR80 I’ll have a look into this. I also notice that something is going wrong with respect to channel versus device settings

@mwittig awesome. one idea how to impelment this: allow a parameter that can be used in a rule to overwrite the default device ID… that way it’s fully backwards compatible and doesn’t annoy users that have only one device anyhow.