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

I selfhost a matrix instance just for myself and my bots. And send myself notifications to the phone client element. I can even trigger a fake VoIP phone call for really important stuff.

Notifications come through as any other message app notification. And calls do the same.

In order to get all notifications and not destroy your phone battery I found out that you need to download the google play version as you need google services for notifications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Matrix seems a bit overkill. I think they would be better off with something like gotify.

Take a look at dontkillmyapp.com to see if your phone provider hinders your messages.

There is unified push as Google alternative as well, which works with the schildichat matrix client.