… specifically, the thing to deliver alerts from your servers to your phone or whatever. I’m using Discord, because it doesn’t depend on my own infrastructure, and I can make a private “alerts” channel on my private server. But I’d like to switch to something that’s not Discord. I’m using alertmanager, FWIW.
I use my husband complaining that something stopped working and then me realizing it has been broken for days
Why you gotta call me out like this?
Uptime Kuma
I use pushover mostly. It’ll let me know when disks are full, certs need renewing.
Home assistant for home stuff. Sauna is heating, sauna reached temperature, boiler took a break because electricity is expensive, washing machine is done.
MQTT and a vibecoded flutter app that subscribes to topics and will publish acks so it mutes alerts on other devices in my networks. Nothing I could find on the appstore would stay active well enough to be trusted. This one is pretty bulletproof.
ntfy
Depends…
If someone’s just arrived home, the freezer door’s open, etc, then I’m using Home Assistant to speak / flash a light / etc.
If a device fails, then Uptime Kuma sends via to ntfy & gotify (I’m trying both atm to decide on one)
If it’s something I’ve (not) done, then my partner tells me (arms folded, stern look)
The only thing I rely on from day to day is my nextcloud instance, and my phone gets blown up by failed webdav synchronisation alerts when that fails…
I use AlertManager and the push notifications available on Home Assistant companion app.
The push notifications from home assistant do me fine. AlertManager webhook to home assistant and a small automation to send the push.
Could use matrix but this has been perfectly fine for now.
ntfy, self-hosted offsite on an old phone, it takes around 300mA, ie.less than a watt.
ntfy app on my phone.
Wireguard between them.5V * 0.3A = 1.5W
Right you are. Still much cheaper than a laptop, let alone a server.
+1 for ntfy it’s great. I’m using their free servers though and it just routes my curl’d alerts to the phone app. Will have to look into self hosting it that sounds neat, love that you repurposed an old phone for that.
Adminforge also runs a free public ntfy server: https://ntfy.adminforge.de/
It’s not super difficult. They provide setup instructions and then you just connect to your new instance instead of the public one.
Have they fixed support for mTLS?
All of my alerts go to Apprise, which sends it to Home Assistant. Home assistant allows me to either have silent notifications in the app I can look at later, or send as a push notification to my phone.
For me it’s the constant notifications I get from DAVx5 telling me that it can’t connect to my Nextcloud server.
My current setup is Uptime Kuma sending notifications via Ntfy.
I need to resolve the issue of what to do when the internet is down (and thus Ntfy cannot be reached), but it has so far done everything I want it to do. It also means I get push notifications on all the devices I care to receive them on.
The only notifications I use are for my cameras through frigate so I just use home assistant to send push notifications when someone walks up to my house.
Is “my users” a valid answer? xD
Yes. My stuff is only for me, so the only way I find out something isn’t working is when I go to use it. But that almost never happens.
The only actual notifications I get is for updates.
E-mails and “I can tell by the way that it is”
I use pushover for everything alerting, from home assistant to nagios.
A 1 time payment and you get 10,000 alerts a month
Just be aware that if you’re using the Android client, your phone/tablet will probably at some point put it into deep sleep which will prevent it from displaying notifications. You can (and should) change this in the app settings.
