I went with ntfy as well - you can set the different levels to alert in different ways and my max priority it set to always ring even if the phone is on silent. Mostly I use max prio as a find-my-phone tool, but there are real alerts that would use it.
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KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I’ve experimented with ntfy, it works pretty well and is selfhostable. I don’t know if it natively support mqtt though.
Deebster@programming.dev 6 days ago
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
off topic but do you know about this app for find my phone purposes?
Deebster@programming.dev 5 days ago
I have Tasker running, and you can set it up to do this too. Between ntfy and Google’s version I think I’m covered already!
mac@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I self host this, along with a ntfy server. Havent ever lost my phone since setting it up though, lol.
For me the gps updates appear to lag a bit, but show when I manually prompt for it.
ikidd@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I can get notification to ntfy, but I’m not sure if the app is certain to blow my phone up until I notice it, which is my goal. Frankly, if I could trigger the Presidential Alert, I would do that.