My open source notification Android app and server is now a UnifiedPush distributor, and can be used to send images and other files to your phone. You can also publish via e-mail, or notify yourself via e-mail. And thanks to open source, it now consumes only about 1% of battery for the entire day.

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  • ntfy

    Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST

  • You can control a few things, see https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/ for what exactly you can do. You cannot yet update/delete notifications, though that is planned, see https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/43

  • ntfy

    🖥️📱🔔 A utility for sending notifications, on demand and when commands finish. (by dschep)

  • When I found out that I had picked the same name, i opened a pull request to integrate the two projects: https://github.com/dschep/ntfy/pull/234

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  • ntfy-android

    Android app for ntfy.sh

  • The key was that I was holding a wake lock for the foreground service (which is still enabled by default). Once removed, the battery usage dropped like crazy. See this PR (thanks @MatMaul) for details.

  • apprise

    Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform!

  • Make sure to get apprise to support it. This lib is used by tons of projects.

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