Problem/Justification
I commonly use the Pushover application on other platforms for notification.
Impact
Have to use multiple notification programs
User Story
Pushover (https://pushover.net/) is a simple and easy to use notification app.
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I would recommend that you put a little more effort into selling this as a possible feature and what problem is addressees/solves, if any. And why a pay for use application should be installed on TrueNAS. I say this because TrueNAS can send emails.
I despise notifications. Every app wants to turn on notifications and bug the living crap out pf me all hours of the day and night. I turn off all notifications but a few, so I personally dislike it only because I am biased against notifications, not really having this feature added.
Also, I would have to assume that since you want it built into TrueNAS, maybe you have some suggestions on how to implement it into the GUI (items to select for notification, set points, etc).
This was actually meant to be a comment to just have you expand a bit on this feature request, not me ranting how much I dislike notifications in general.
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There are two major overhauls that should happen to the notifications system IMO:
- Granularity of what notifications you’re going to get.
- I just upgraded my main NAS to 24.10, and now an interface is flapping. Every few minutes, I get an email about how that interface is up, or down, or up again, or… I don’t like it, but I’m hundreds of miles away, will be for the next couple of months, and won’t be able to do anything about it until then. I sure wouldn’t mind being able to turn these off.
- Additional possible notification destinations.
- Lots of people aren’t in their email constantly, yet some of the alerts TrueNAS sends really do need immediate action.
I wouldn’t put Pushover that high on the list, but there are a good number of services TrueNAS could (and should, in at least a few cases IMO) integrate as a notification target. I’d put Telegram and Matrix pretty high on the list–the latter is free (as in speech) and open-source; the former is free (as in beer) and has a well-documented API.
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Pushover is free…
You should also vote for your own request if you want it. I think if this was for more robust messaging and not just pushover, you would get more support. I went through the pain for implementing a telegram bot to make notifications work and I would LOVE to have pushover support (or an easy way to hook an api into pushover)
Telegram support is there already, though I found setting up the bot to be a PITA. Totally agree with your first point. I would love more granularity and I am surprised the enterprise customers arent demanding it.
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Sure enough–there are a lot of services there, actually. Wonder when that happened. But good to know.
…and the granularity I was asking for looks like it’s there too:
Another vote for pushover here, it is popular, simple and I have used it totally free for many years now.
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read down a bit further
Sending Notifications
All Pushover users can send notifications to their own devices or to any other user’s devices through our API, E-mail Gateway, or any Pushover-enabled app or service. Each user can send up to 10,000 messages per month for free . Users needing to send larger amounts of notifications can easily upgrade sending capacity through our website.strong text
I did. So you can send them for free, but have to pay to receive them–according to that page. If that isn’t the case, whatever marketing droid wrote that page needs to be fired.
As per my post, completely free, for many years now. Seems very clear to me, not that I’m ever going to need 10,000 notifications in a month though.
Even the part you did quote says this.
There are no subscription fees for individuals using Pushover.
What I’m thinking is that fee might be for IX if they want to add pushover, still seems pretty cheap though.
No, it doesn’t. It says you have to pay for the app (which is how you receive notifications), for each platform on which you want to use it. That isn’t “completely free.”
…which is good, but if you have to pay for the app (which that page says you do), it isn’t “completely free.”
Sorry I forgot It cost 5 bucks. Me and my family has been using it for so long I forgot I acutally paid for it, If you count how long I have been using it it is essentially free…
LOL, the only vote at the time of this posting. The OP didn’t even vote for it.
I never even heard of this product but it sounds very good. Not sure how difficult it is to setup but everything is difficult if you have no idea how to do it.
That is not a terrible price at all but I did not see actual pricing on the website when I went looking yesterday.
The iXsystem folks have said that if you build it, they may include it into TrueNAS. There are a lot of programmers out there, I’m not one unfortunately, or at least a good one. The code is on Github free to access and built the interface. And the Pushover site clearly gives you the commands on how to send a notification. And this is one option to get it into your system.
The code is super simple. I write python in PIs but they have examples for all languages on their site. Super simple. Even an old aging techie figured it out.
I don’t understand why you keep calling me a liar but I have never paid them a cent, and it works for me. I guess maybe I’ve been using it so many years now that the fee happened after I started???
It is an option that I use in Emby, Jellyseer and a few other things. You simply setup a (free) account, add the api details to your app (emby, jellyseer etc) and notifications get sent to your device.
I’m not fussed either way as email works fine for my purposes, but it would be nice to have.
Read their page. It says you have to pay for the app as an individual user. Maybe their page is wrong, maybe things have changed since you signed up, maybe you’ve forgotten something. Or maybe you’re lying. Or, heck, maybe I can’t read, but this sounds really clear:
To use Pushover for yourself or a small group, it’s just a $4.99 USD one-time purchase on each platform
Which is it? I don’t know. But when you say it’s free, and they say they charge, I believe them.
It did cost me 5.00 to install the client on the Iphone “platform” but I can add as many Iphones to it as I need (I currently have 7) and sent messaged to them. There is no server cost or any other cost if you pay for the one time 5 bucks for"platform" your going to install the client on. Pushover: Pricing
As above, I can only imagine they updated their policies at some point. I can only once again say that I have never given them any money. That’s generally how things go, once a thing gets popular, they start charging for it.