2018/Nuremberg/notifications
IndieWebCamp Nürnberg 2018 Session: notifications When: 2018-10-20 15:05
Participants
- All the people at the event :o
Notes
What do you want to get notifications for?
- when I get a new webmention
- health checks for my server
Aaron
- uses Monocle to read notifications from webmentions and other sources
- also push the "notifications" channel to my iphone
Sven
- wants to get updates on github repositories, such as new releases, but not an email for every new issue
Clustering?
Services to deliver push notifications
- Pushbullet, Pushover
- They provide a UI for configuring how to deliver to multiple devices, and with what priority
- IFTTT offers notifications too via their platform app - but there's no control over which devices (it sends to all it's installed on)
Jan
- prometheus for notifications about server health
- CPU is too high, disk space is running out
Pushbullet has Oauth API:
https://docs.pushbullet.com/#oauth2
Aaron: How can Aperture send notifications to people?
- using Pushbullet API, users can authorize Aperture to send notifications to their account
- give users a way to configure which channels in Aperture should send notifications to Pushbullet
Rose:
- Notifications can have URLs, so you can launch actions when you click on them
- These URLs can even be custom schemes, so you can open apps, or start iOS shortcuts / workflows
- Some providers (?) even make it possible to reply from the notification. You can send that reply via Micropub to your server.
How can apps like Indigenous deliver notifications?
- Indigenous needs to run a server to talk to Apple/Google notification service, but doesn't want to poll a Microsub channel
- A microsub server needs a way to have the app register for web hooks so the microsub server can deliver new posts to it