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The syslog platform allows you to deliver notifications from Home Assistant to the local syslog.

To enable syslog notifications in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
notify:
  name: NOTIFIER_NAME
  platform: syslog
  facility: SYSLOG_FACILITY
  option: SYSLOG_LOG_OPTION
  priority: SYSLOG_PRIORITY

Configuration variables:

• name (Optional): Setting the optional parameter name allows multiple notifiers to be created. The default value is notify. The notifier will bind to the service notify.NOTIFIER_NAME.
• facility (Optional): Facility according to RFC 3164 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164). Default is 'syslog' if no value is given. Check the table below for entries.
• option (Optional): Log option. Default is 'pid' if no value is given. Check the table below for entries.
• priority (Optional): Priority of the messages. Default is 'info' if no value is given. Check the table below for entries.

The table contains values to use in your configuration.yaml file.

facility	option	priority
kernel	pid	5
user	cons	4
mail	ndelay	3
daemon	nowait	2
auth	perror	1
LPR		0
news		-1
uucp		-2
cron
syslog
local0
local1
local2
local3
local4
local5
local6
local7

For details about facility, option, and priority please consult the wikpedia article and RFC 3164.

To use notifications, please see the getting started with automation page.