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sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 1 month agoHome Assistant notifications and most other notification services on phones actually route notifications through a cloud service like Firebase. Ntfy let’s you cut out the third party. I also like its web app, which i use for sharing links and files with myself similar to PushBullet, but again without going through a third party cloud server. Plus, apart from that ntfy is really easy to integrate with other stuff, like its easy to send a notification from a shell script or web hook so you can hack it into things that don’t otherwise support notifications (there are also lots of things that support ntfy natively, e.g. the arrs).
yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 month ago
i cant follow your first paragraph. at all. i use companion app from fdroid withouth gsf and a selfhosted homeassistant. you could aswell connect apprise to it, you can uding telegram or whatever…all in homeassistant.
ntfy iphone and google app from playstore do share your data, right? and you use that to share data in LAN? i am confused.
sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not entirely sure about the de-google’d version of the Home Assistant companion app, but I know the regular companion app uses Firebase (and whatever the Apple equivalent is called, I forget) to deliver notifications, and it still would using Telegram as Telegram also uses Firebase. Apprise is a bit different as it can use multiple backends. Regardless, there are multiple ways to do things. Ntfy iphone and google app do not route your data through a third party server. I self host the ntfy server on my own machine and my phone connects to it and receives data. It also provides a nice UI akin to Pushbullet I can use to send myself stuff privately.
You can’t replicate all of what ntfy does with Home Assistant. There’s more to it than just delivering notifications, it’s the whole app frontend and persistent data etc. If it’s not clear to you what it’s for from my description that’s fine, maybe go look around at it yourself.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 month ago
ok. but thanks really for the details!