You can do it from Tautulli.
Go to settings and then on the left menu panel click on Notification Agents.
After the right side changes, click on “Add a new notification agent” at the bottom and then you can select how you want to get notified.
A modal will pop up to configure it. I chose Email just as an example, but it opens to the configuration tab which is where you enter all your settings. Click the trigger tab and for what you want you want to check off playback start.
Next, the conditions tab is where you will set the conditions to be checked. In the description there is a link to see the descriptions of all the parameters.
Text tab, which you’d move onto next configuring from left to right, is where you will put the text that you want sent. You would again put this on playback start. Again, the description for that tab has links to see additional information to help you fill that tab out.
Lastly is the test tab where you can verify that the notification type (in this case email) is actually working.
I don’t personally have any notification agents setup that send any notifications. I am using “script” for my agents and I use a kill_stream.py script from JBOPS/utility at master · blacktwin/JBOPS · GitHub to kill streams that are paused for too long or that are playing at less then 4 Mbps (though that might stop once the new quality change feature has been implemented in more clients).
I can try to help out if you have any questions and I’m sure if others that use Tautulli to send notifications they can help also.
-Shark2k
