Vera PushOver notification with image

[rafale77]

Yep, I have been running pushover, replacing the vera mobile push notification for quite a few years. It's been rock solid. I was particularly enamored by the ability to push snapshots of my security cameras to my apple watch... To make it easy I used Home Assistant as the integration relay so openLuup (and vera before that) sent the call to home assistant which then went to pushover.

[parkerc]

I’m a bit old school, I still use Prowl with my Veras - https://www.prowlapp.com/

Here’s some code examples on how to use it.

function my_escape (s)
    s = string.gsub(s, " ", "+")
    return s
end

function my_prowl (appl, event, description)
    local prowl_url      = "https://api.prowlapp.com/publicapi/add?apikey="
        .. "put-your-api-code-here"
        .. "&application=" .. my_escape(appl)
        .. "&event="         .. my_escape(event)
        .. "&description=" .. my_escape(description)
        .. "&priority=-1"
        .. "&url=https://www.google.co.uk/"
    luup.inet.wget(prowl_url)
end

my_prowl ("Vera Home Controller", "Testing code", "this could any description")

Or something all in one..

luup.inet.wget("https://api.prowlapp.com/publicapi/add?apikey=Your-api-key-goes-here&application=Test+Event&event=Armed+Notification&description=The+DSC+alarm+system+has+been+armed&priority=1")

[LibraSun]

I've gotta ask, since Pushover essentially breaks their paid apps down into three "flavors" (Web browser, Android and iOS), how do they differentiate other channels like Home Assistant or IFTTT? Or do those get lumped into "Web" along with Chrome, etc.? (I assume every endpoint has to have a unique name, no matter what.)

[rafale77]

I am really not sure. I am only using the iOS app as the notification target. Home Assistant just sends the notification and is not considered a channel... (Simple python http post call) I also have not used any paid tier. It's been 3 years.

[wmarcolin]

@droy last week I changed all notification types to a Telegram BOT, it works great, fast and simple.

[A Former User]

@librasun it looks like they charge the onetime fee by user consumption endpoint groups (Android, iOS, and Desktop) and not integrations or apps.

[LibraSun]

That's right. I thought someone above was saying that HA was acting as an endpoint, not just a broadcast source. I was wrong.

[ArcherS]

@droy I use the excellent Telegram plugin by @therealdb in OpenLuup, it should work on the Vera also.

[therealdb]

@archers 100% working under Vera as well.

[sender]

I use homeassistant with node red and telegram natively. Alternatively I use the homeassistant companion app with messaging. Both rock solidand instant.