cross-posted from: https://discuss.ntfy.sh/post/30818
Hello friends π, it's that time again. A new ntfy release has landed. This one is pretty cool!
For those who don't know, ntfy is a a tool that lets you send push notifications to your phone from any script or server using a simple HTTP PUT/POST requests. It's 100% open source and self-hostable, and has an Android app and a web app. You can use ntfy like this (more in the docs). This will send a notification to your phone:
curl -d "Backup on $(hostname) complete" ntfy.sh/mytopicI host free and open version on ntfy.sh, but you can host your own of course.
π₯ What's new? With this release, the ntfy web app now contains a progressive web app (PWA) with Web Push support, which means you'll be able to install the ntfy web app on your desktop or phone similar to a native app (even on iOS! π₯³). Installing the PWA gives ntfy web its own launcher, a standalone window, push notifications, and an app badge with the unread notification count. Note that this needs to be configured for selfhosted servers!
On top of that, this release also brings dark mode π§π to the web app.
π A huge thanks for this release goes to @nimbleghost, for basically implementing the Web Push / PWA and dark mode feature by himself. I'm really grateful for your contributions.
β€οΈ If you like ntfy, please consider sponsoring us via GitHub Sponsors or Liberapay, or buying a paid plan via the web app. Contrary to "popular" belief, I am not swimming in money due to the paid plans. π¬
Detailed release notes: https://docs.ntfy.sh/releases/
Other links:
- ntfy website: https://ntfy.sh/
- ntfy web app: https://ntfy.sh/app
- GitHub (server): https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy
- GitHub (Android): https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.heckel.ntfy
- F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.heckel.ntfy/
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/cT7ECsZj9w
- Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#ntfy:matrix.org
- Lemmy (brand new π₯): https://discuss.ntfy.sh/ (register on other instances please)
Public topics:
- https://ntfy.sh/stats (daily stats scraped from nginx logs)
- https://ntfy.sh/announcements (release announcements)
cool. can you give me some examples of how one might use this?
Yeah Iβm looking for some practical examples too
Yeah Iβm looking for some practical examples too
It's a nice way to send notifications to your phone about all sorts of things. Due to the fact that it just needs a simple curl command to trigger a notification, it's incredibly flexible.
Haven't used ntfy, but since it's fairly similar to gotify, which I have run for a while, these might give you an idea:
Basically, if you have any services/scripts that just run silently in the background and do their thing, but you want to be notified when something specific happens, applications like ntfy or gotify come in pretty handy. And since all you need to trigger a notification is a simple curl command, it's easy to integrate with all sorts of stuff.
//edit: their website also has a list of integrations which might give you some ideas: https://docs.ntfy.sh/integrations/
I have a backup script that runs every morning and I had it send a notification with ntfy on how many errors/warnings occurred. With backups it's important to actually know your backups are working.
I also have it report battery voltage and health every so often, which should hopefully give me advance warning of a spicy pillow in my laptop server.
Vikunja is a todo-app I enjoy quite a bit, but it only has email notifications. I made a script that runs every 15 minutes that reads all the tasks from the Vikunja API and sends me reminders or overdue tasks, and ntfy allows me to configure buttons on the notification which allows me to mark things done without having to open Vikunja.
It's a pretty good tool for anywhere you would want notifications.