Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST • Hacker News Board

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#11

Post by matxd » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 12:45 PM UTC

I love it! Is it possible to subscribe without downloading the app? For example by visiting a special page with some confirm button?

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#12

Post by Version467 » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 12:45 PM UTC

Oh this is awesome. Tried it out just yet and it worked right away. Software can be so great when it's not desperately trying to sell you something.

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#13

Post by laughy » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 12:46 PM UTC

I have a custom written function in R that loads in .Rprofile to push messages e.g. when some script is done.

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#14

Post by willjp » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 12:50 PM UTC

Thank you! This is fantastic

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#15

Post by idop » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

Hey there. In Android, is there a requirement or any kind of dependency on Google Play Services? Also, do notifications work when the Ntfy app is in the background? Do I need to disable battery optimizations for it?

Thanks!

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#16

Post by mcjiggerlog » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 12:56 PM UTC

This is really great! I have plenty of uses for this.

Here's a quick fish function for being able to call this from a shell like `alt my message`

  function alt
    curl -d "\"$argv\"" ntfy.sh/
  end

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#17

Post by spuz » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 12:56 PM UTC

When I was making my IoT washing machine sensor, I used Blynk.io to push notifications to my phone but of course that service became commercialised and is no longer free. I could not find any nice easy to use alternative except for Telegram which is what I use now. This service looks exactly like what I would need and I appreciate the promise to keep it open source.

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#18

Post by bert2002 » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 12:58 PM UTC

Fantastic idea with the different topics

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#19

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 12:59 PM UTC

superasn wrote: post #3

Very nice. I use a telegram bot for doing this as telegram API also makes it a simple GET request to send such notifications to yourself (once you have created a bot). Also it's surprisingly hard to kill telegram for some reason so it's kinda robust. My stupid mi phone is quite aggresive in killing most background apps except whatsapp and telegram.

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Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

#20

Post by lloydatkinson » Tue, Nov 08, 2022, 1:02 PM UTC

spuz wrote: post #17

When I was making my IoT washing machine sensor, I used Blynk.io to push notifications to my phone but of course that service became commercialised and is no longer free. I could not find any nice easy to use alternative except for Telegram which is what I use now. This service looks exactly like what I would need and I appreciate the promise to keep it open source.

https://pushover.net/ Has existed for several years. It works great for me.