Brrr: push notifications for your devices

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Simon Støvring, developer of Scriptable and guest in MPU episode 808, is working on a new side project:

You can now (help him) test this:

(I’m a Pushover user myself and not sure yet how brrr would fit in)

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This looks interesting. Am I right in thinking this could replace a notification sent to my phone via IFTTT?

For example, currently, I have a Shortcut run each day at a set time via a Personal Automation on my phone. The shortcut pings the Todoist API to see if there are any tasks that conform to a filter query string. If there are, the shortcut then hits a IFTTT web hook (IF), which in turn produces a rich notification (TTT). The notification tells me how many tasks there are and includes a mobile URL scheme link for the filter id to click on and open to that spot in Todoist.

The brrr website seems a little light on details, so that’s why I’m querying. If it does indeed do the same, I would happily remove IFTTT from the equation.

Edit - Tried it and it does indeed do the same as I was achieving with IFTTT.

2nd edit - I’m mindful that my use case is primarily to get a notification with a clickable link in it. The web hook, per se, is not really required. So if anyone knows how to trigger a notification from a shortcut with a clickable link in it, without the routes outlined, I’m all ears.

Edit 3 - After revisiting Actions, with its Create notification action & Show notification actions, and some input from Claude, I’ve now got clickable notifications working. I had looked at it before, but found setting up a bit of a head scratcher and ditched it. Claude paved the way!

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What do you do with Pushover? Struggling for a use case.

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Here are some of my use cases

  • Notifications about available updates for services hosted on my NAS. When new updates are available I get a notification so I’m not having to check each day.
  • Details when backup jobs run. If the job runs successfully I get informed. Should there be an error I also get informed about that.
  • Notifications from Home Assistant. When the door locks/unlocks, my washing machine needs emptying, my alarm arms/disarms/triggered, etc. I get a notification.
  • Pushover also gives you a unique email address which will send you a notification. I’ve used this with my local council who will email out reminders. As an example when signing up for reminders about which bind go out each week I gave them my Pushover address. Now I get a notification each week telling me which bins need to go out that night.

I use it for things that I want to get notified about, but that does not involve having an app on my phone.

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A lot!

For example notifications when:

  • an internet connected device at home goes down/up
  • a self-hosted service (on a Pi at home or on a VPS) goes down/up
  • an automatic backup has finished or failed
  • a new iOS version is published by Apple
  • a long download has finished