I currently do a lot of my monitoring via MQTT for my solar system etc. I currently use MQTT Alert and set up my alerts to ring my phone at top volume until silenced. But I have missed more than one alert because I don’t think the background agent is always active and it doesn’t necessarily start when I reboot the phone. While the application does “monitor” the MQTT connection, it only makes a short sound if it drops, with no followup until you notice that there was a notification and go back into it to figure out why the connection is down.
Does anyone have foolproof way of getting things like security alerts that will always trigger on the phone, without having to check the phone 10 times a day to be sure the application is on and the connection is active?
And uhhh which solar system would that be, exactly?
This is my summer solar system. I like to winter in the Antares.
I’ve experimented with ntfy, it works pretty well and is selfhostable. I don’t know if it natively support mqtt though.
I can get notification to ntfy, but I’m not sure if the app is certain to blow my phone up until I notice it, which is my goal. Frankly, if I could trigger the Presidential Alert, I would do that.
If you turn off the battery optimization setting, does it get better?
I was missing a bunch of alerts for Signal because I downloaded it outside the GPlay store (which handles waking up processes better), and I got much more reliable notifications after disabling that setting. It uses a lot more battery though, but maybe that’s worth it for you.
I use molly’s unifiedpush edition, with ntfy, and that works for me. ntfy never crashed on me yet.
also, it’s not signal that handles waking up, but firebase when you get it from the google store, none I think if you install the apk, and unifiedpush if you get molly unifiedpush edition
I selfhost a matrix instance just for myself and my bots. And send myself notifications to the phone client element. I can even trigger a fake VoIP phone call for really important stuff.
Notifications come through as any other message app notification. And calls do the same.
In order to get all notifications and not destroy your phone battery I found out that you need to download the google play version as you need google services for notifications.
Matrix seems a bit overkill. I think they would be better off with something like gotify.
Take a look at dontkillmyapp.com to see if your phone provider hinders your messages.
There is unified push as Google alternative as well, which works with the schildichat matrix client.
If it’s absolutely critical, I would set something up to call you continuously until the alert is acknowledged.
Here’s some information on using a broadband modem, further down on sending SMS and stuff with it, maybe this helps: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mobile_broadband_modem
Edit: Typo
Any suggestions for services that do that? I like the idea, I’d actually get a few different phones to ring if some of the alarms were to get triggered.
ntfy can do that too
Gotify along with an external email service. I get each notification twice, immediately
XMPP is best for that IMHO.
I use the SlayerWaspKC method.
for my solar system etc.
Of course I didn’t just search “self hosted solar system” only to be disappointed it wasn’t about planets lol that would be ridiculous.
