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

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.

The general ones that use email never seem to send anything. The ones that specifically use Gmail don't work anymore since Google apparently changed some security settings. And the one that uses Pushover didn't work AND wanted me to pay too much for their app.

check out pushover, I use it for this exact case

https://pushover.net/

I use Pushover for receiving alerts and notifications on my phone. I think the mobile app may cost a small amount like $5 USD, but the service is free for up to 10,000 notifications per month. I can't recommend Pushover enough. It is freaking awesome.

I used to use PushBullet but they stopped supporting iOS which is why I came to Now Push. I may use https://pushover.net/ instead, there doesn't seem to be a ton of alternatives.

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

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'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!