Sorry if this has been asked before -

I've installed the notification nodeserver and am trying to understand everything;  Previously, I have been using pushover via the email gateway to myself and my wife's phones to deliver messages defined in the "Customizations" tab of the Admin Console.

I added a new pushover application for the node server and obtained a new API key - setup is good and I can send messages, but it appears that I can only send messages to the devices associated with my pushover account - my wife has a different pushover account - so how do I send a message to both of us?  Do I have to add her phone to my pushover account?

 

Edited December 21, 20231 yr by JTsao

OK - so I've figured out how to make groups in Pushover that could be used to send messages to multiple users, each with different accounts - it works, but the Pushover Nodeserver does not contain any of my groups under "DeviceOrGroup" - it only contains devices - I have tried deleting and re-installing, re-starting IoX, re-starting the Node Server and cannot get the Pushover groups to show up - does anyone know how to get this to work?

 

My understanding of pushover is that phones are associated with one account. You could put that to the test by going to pushover and trying to add your wife's number to your account to see if that works.... if it does, make a group on pushover with both devices

They do offer pushover for teams at a cost which I believe would meet the requirement but seems pricey to me for what it gives for you requirement,

Something else to try, a workaround of sorts: Jimbo's plugin defines the User Key and application key for each node.. so you can define similar notifications nodes for each account for the same type notification, and send them back to back in a program.

Edited December 21, 20231 yr by paulbates

20 minutes ago, JTsao said:

cannot get the Pushover groups to show up - does anyone know how to get this to work?

My understanding is you substitute the Group key where you would have used the User Key

Thanks for the replies - I know that I can add my wife's account as a 2nd node and send a message 2x to each of us - I tried using the group key instead of the user key with the API key I created for the PG3x notify server but it doesn't seem to work

Since the "Send Sys Custom With Params" indicates "DeviceOrGroup" I assume that the intent was that all of the devices and groups for an account should be available - so perhaps there is a bug, or the group capability has not been implemented

Ultimately, it will be more efficient and cleaner to be able to utilize pushover groups to reach multiple users, devices and subsets of devices instead of sending 2 or more messages - since I'm just trying this out right now, I'll experiment with just sending messages to my phone and I'll modify my in-use programs sending messages to both of us to use the new group key via the email portal (instead of sending to 2 email portals)

 

The Group's should be added to the list of DeviceOrGroup but I just looked at mine and it's not adding Groups, although you should have 'all' which sends to all devices.  I'm pretty sure this used to work so I'll have to look into it when I'm back home after the holidays.  Issue created: https://github.com/UniversalDevicesInc-PG3/udi-poly-notification/issues/52