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.

  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months 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.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months 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
    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 months 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

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    2 months 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.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    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.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months 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.

  • vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 month 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.