iOS VS NPushOver

2. Firebase Cloud Messaging, for push notifications (since we can't talk to APNS directly in HA)

FCM is a dependency I'm actively trying to kill off in favor of an implementation that is both end-to-end encrypted and talks directly to Apple's Push Notification Service. Apple would not allow a solution where HA talks directly to APNS as they do not want that many active connections, and it would require disclosing private keys for the App STore account.

[0] https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/pull/2010

See, for example, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so on.

I too am surprised to hear this. GP can you point to said spyware in the GitHub repo?

https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS

Only issue I'm seeing right now is balancing the security of your setup with the lack of iOS support for client certs. Looks like it's under some amount of development, but not much movement in the past 3 years: https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/issues/27. Since I use our family's phones as a presence detection, I'd need the this to work with iOS.

You might want to file an issue for them, because it seems like they should be able to flag the app to not back up cache data, since that can easily be redownloaded.

Don't mean to shit on your idea but how does this compare to an app like Pushover for instance? (https://pushover.net/)

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I'd just use Pushover.

So if and when my hotspot ever starts earning again, I'm curious whether there is any way to get push notifications of earnings through Pushover. Has anyone any experience with this?

I use Pushover for my iOS devices, it's absolutely solid and affordable. :)

I'm using Pushover but I don't think the transport matters. By default it sends you a mib code but you can customize the notifications with templates. Here are couple examples.

I use diun. I configured it to notify me of available updates via pushover. I then update my containers when I have time to ensure they've restarted correctly. The whole process takes maybe a minute or two and I never worry about something failing silently.

I do have another automation that sends me a notification when my garage fridge exceeds a certain temperature. I’m using Homebridge Messenger (https://www.npmjs.com/package/homebridge-messenger) and Pushover (https://pushover.net). Works great. It’s a one time purchase but well worth it and it’s only $5. There is a 30 day trial in case you want to test it.

I'm playing with an esp8266 providing WiFi to an Arduino with this library. I have it set up properly to POST to Pushover as well as requestbin, and between the debug output and the interface from these tools, I can verify that the request data is being POSTed properly, and the esp8266 / arduino unit's response status code properly shows 200.

How about a Pushover or similar implementation? Thanks for your initiative!