I’ve recently turned my attention to a self hosted app that @matthew919 and I took a look at ages ago. Back then I set it up, which is usually as far as I get with these things ( eg. N8N). But on this occasion I even made use of it.
I hooked it up to prowlarr which was nifty, but I also wired it into a few of my scripts that run routinely at home, like my backups.
Anyway, the push notifications to the companion phone app are top notch and it’s very easy to implement.
If you haven’t heard of it before, I recommend checking it out.
For those on Apple Architecture I found NTFY to be a bust with push notifications. I moved over to Pushover, so even though I rely on a public service it’s free and been reliable and flexible so far. My Matrix server covers information I don’t want made public via their API.
@jdownie & @shirbo is there any chance of a demo of your setups at one of the meetings in the future? Also, have you got anything tied in with Home Assistant?
I’ve been experimenting with an Uptime Kuma install over the last few days and think I’ll end up using it more broadly. Some sort of self-hosted notification service is an obvious next step, and something that could potentially be a “one stop shop” for all notifications (including Home Assistant) might be useful too. I’m curious to see what options are out there and why you picked the application/service you did.
That would be great. I have spent the morning stuffing around with uptime-kuma and duplicate piholes; one in the cluster and one in a docker container. That caused no end of pain. I have now deleted the cluster pihole and set all machines to the one pihole in docker. I now have a single point of truth … and failure.
I have used pushbullet in the past and have set that up for notifications. I doubt that it is the best app for that but I have a paid subscription.
… and speaking of N8N I installed that yesterday and am looking at some online tutorials. The general recommendation is to just start off and create a workflow. I can think of some great uses cases for when I was working (which seems to be a recurrent theme in the youtube videos) but would be interested in what other homelabbers are doing. @shirbo had some examples from earlier in the year at one of the Chermside meetings.
Thanks @shirbo that’s great. I’ve got you down for 8.15 pm on Tuesday. @Belfry thinks his ipv6 might go a little longer so we can aim to start earlier, say about 7.30 pm, or we could push the whole meeting forward to start at 7.00 pm AEST if everybody prefers that.
Sorry i’ve been asleep at the wheel everybody. We just got a new puppy and i underestimated what a drain he would be!
Thanks for stepping up to talk @shirbo. Over the holidays i put a little more love into my ntfy setup. By that i mean that i enabled authentication on it.
We got another Rottweiler. Vivian is 10 years old now and I don’t want to be without a pet that can protect our yard. The new boy’s name is Thaddeus, and he is a lovely little bloke. The trouble starts when you put both dogs and the kid In the mix together.
This video shows how the “kid” that you’re not looking at is creating the next chore
I’ve been hosting a Zulip instance and they have mentioned self-hosted + phone push notifications aren’t allowed.
Google’s and Apple’s security model for mobile push notifications does not allow self-hosted Zulip servers to directly send mobile notifications to the Zulip mobile apps. The Zulip Mobile Push Notification Service solves this problem by forwarding E2EE mobile push notifications generated by your server to the Zulip mobile apps. With Zulip Server 12.0+ and an up-to-date Zulip mobile app, the notifications are encrypted end-to-end from your server to your mobile device.
Sorry @jiskh , I’m struggling to tie your question back to a specific post so I’m not sure if you’re asking me. In my defence though, we did stray off onto the subject of dogs at one point, so this thread isn’t a very “straight line”.
I installed that yesterday and am looking at some online tutorials. The general recommendation is to just start off and create a workflow. I can think of some great uses cases for when I was working (which seems to be a recurrent theme in the youtube videos) but would be interested in what other homelabbers are doing. 
