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How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I currently do a lot of my monitoring via MQTT for my solar system etc. I currently use MQTT Alert and set up my alerts to ring my phone at top volume until silenced. But I have missed more than one alert because I don't think the background agent is always active and it doesn't necessarily start when I reboot the phone. While the application does "monitor" the MQTT connection, it only makes a short sound if it drops, with no followup until you notice that there was a notification and go back into it to figure out why the connection is down.

Does anyone have foolproof way of getting things like security alerts that will always trigger on the phone, without having to check the phone 10 times a day to be sure the application is on and the connection is active?

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[–] Lem453 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Gotify along with an external email service. I get each notification twice, immediately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Hmm... I'm using gotify with a Ras Pi to send the alerts and I sometimes get long delays...

AFAICT it's the phone, not the Pi, but all I can see are lots of websocket errors in the gotify client the time.. are you not getting those then?

[–] Lem453 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mine works instantly on a pixel 8. There is a notification that is always active for the gotify app. I believe an always on notification is required for instant pushing with non google apps. Maybe you haven't enabled it in the settings somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah, that's all fine - when it works, it works well... But sometimes it just seems to get caught up in an error and can't seem to reset for a few minutes. But ok, looks like your setup's working ok, so must be just mine. I disabled a load of Google stuff and run trackercontrol (a local VPN on the phone that blocks stuff), so maybe I've broken something...