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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    3 hours 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.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 hours 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
    2·
    3 hours 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
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      2 hours 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.

  • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vipEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    i really like my ntfy.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

  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    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

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 hour 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
      1·
      2 hours 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