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Notifications from the server? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago by Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey gang, recently rebuilt my home server using docker and portainer and I've been having a blast curating the different things on it. Homehub has the spouse absolutely stoked and she asked if I could get it to send notifications. I honestly have no Idea so I thought I'd ask here.

Is there a reliable way to send notifications from a home server to smart phones? I'm already set up for remote access, but I'm still new enough that I don't even know how to look for that.

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[–] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Email

Most applications/services offer mail as notification channel. Even old school unix utilities such as cron support sending mail (through the system MTA). I use msmtp. Then configure K-9 mail or any decent mail client on your phone, setup filters so that mail from your services ends up in a high priority folder in your mailbox with notifications enabled.

I want to be able to receive notifications both on mobile and desktop, this is the only reasonable option I found and have been running with it for > 10 years.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago

I use ntfy, they had some recent controversy over some AI commits, but, for me, if it works I'm fine with it. Havent noticed a difference. Mine is also not exposed to the outside world.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)
  • SimplePush (Home Assistant)
  • nfty.sh
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Gotify

There are plenty of others. Those just come to mind

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What sets SimplePush and Kuma apart from the others?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

SimplePush and Kuma

  • SimplePush is propitiatory whereas Kuma is opensource
  • SimplePush scales as a service whereas Kuma scales as infra
  • SimplePush has limited customization whereas Kuma has a swath of customization possibilities
  • SimplePush is a subscription whereas Kuma is free
[–] yodeljunkmanenvy@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

+1 Gotify. I have been using it for years with no issues.

https://gotify.net/

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What set's Gotify apart from ntfy?

[–] yodeljunkmanenvy@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's written in Go. Very fast and lightweight. Go + ntfy = Gotify

[–] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Here you have: https://ntfy.sh/

And because it is you you launch the connection is pretty secure.... Assuming telegram servers are not compromised...

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

This is looking to be my best option, it looks like I can send text notifications through email to sms and I like that

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The most reliable notification service I have used is pushover, I know it's not self host. But ROCK sold and for a £5 life time payment and with 10,000 messages per month that's amazing

[–] Buck@jlai.lu 2 points 5 days ago

Yup, Pushover has been great for me.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 5 days ago

I like Pushover too. I've been using it for over 10 years now.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

i really like my ntfy dot sh server at the house!

i got scared with the huge AI commit for postgres and i locked my install at the version just before, but it appears to still be doing okay

[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Why would it break? There are tools out there that haven't seen updates in decades and they still work mostly the same as they did when they were released.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Notifications for what? Through what channel? I have email alerts for updates and disk errors, but I'm guessing your spouse doesn't want those.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Ideally for things like upcoming calendar events or notes on Homehub, maybe spec updates or added media, though jellyfin already gives us updates on that. Really just a reliable software that will send us a text or notification popup on our phones that I can connect other software to.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Unified Push if you want to use the internet, though for important stuff I prefer to use SMS texts. For that you need a gateway. I'm still on vitelity.net and it's ok, but I'd look at alternatives if I were doing it again. Twilio has lately gotten all weird though.