I currently do a lot of my monitoring via MQTT for my solar system etc. I currently use MQTT Alert and set up my alerts to ring my phone at top volume until silenced. But I have missed more than one alert because I don’t think the background agent is always active and it doesn’t necessarily start when I reboot the phone. While the application does “monitor” the MQTT connection, it only makes a short sound if it drops, with no followup until you notice that there was a notification and go back into it to figure out why the connection is down.
Does anyone have foolproof way of getting things like security alerts that will always trigger on the phone, without having to check the phone 10 times a day to be sure the application is on and the connection is active?
I’ve experimented with ntfy, it works pretty well and is selfhostable. I don’t know if it natively support mqtt though.
I can get notification to ntfy, but I’m not sure if the app is certain to blow my phone up until I notice it, which is my goal. Frankly, if I could trigger the Presidential Alert, I would do that.
I went with ntfy as well - you can set the different levels to alert in different ways and my max priority is set to always ring even if the phone is on silent. Mostly I use max prio as a find-my-phone tool, but there are real alerts that would use it.
off topic but do you know about this app for find my phone purposes?
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice
I have Tasker running, and you can set it up to do this too. Between ntfy and Google’s version I think I’m covered already!
I self host this, along with a ntfy server. Havent ever lost my phone since setting it up though, lol.
For me the gps updates appear to lag a bit, but show when I manually prompt for it.