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Enable more than 1 servers to get notifications from

Open peterge1998 opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Just an idea: allow people which control more than 1 nextcloud server (me!) to get notifications from more servers.

I know its very early in development, but i am sure someone will help you design an icon if u ask in https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/.

peterge1998 avatar Jul 20 '21 09:07 peterge1998

I like your idea :) I think I will add a mulit-account mode after fixing issues and adding support for Android built-in account manager

0xf104a avatar Jul 21 '21 09:07 0xf104a

@peterge1998 -- battery consumption is going to be a major problem with this polling approach. The author is already mentioning 5-7% for just one account. Imagine going with 2 or 3 accounts? I do not believe that it is viable to use more than one account. The correct approach for this would be to forward notifications for multiple servers through a single main server.

ASerbinski avatar Jul 21 '21 14:07 ASerbinski

I would like this feature very much. Nextcloud Talk from FDroid doesn't work without this and I would like to watch updates in Talk chats from two Nextcloud servers.

battery consumption is going to be a major problem with this polling approach.

I strongly doubt several servers will make a linear difference. Battery consumption is complicated topic and is influenced by many factors. It can easily be the situation that only the waking up etc. is consuming the battery and if one or several servers are queried does not really make a difference.

The author is already mentioning 5-7% for just one account.

For me it is 2% and I wouldn't mind 4% for two servers. But as said above, I strongly doubt that you can calculate it that way.

The correct approach for this would be to forward notifications for multiple servers through a single main server.

I wouldn't say there is a correct approach, some approaches might be more efficient:

  • maybe https://github.com/UP-NextPush/server-app/ but I doesn't seem to support Nextcloud Talk nor several Nextcloud servers.
  • In theory it might be better if the OS does the notifications for all apps.

In these situations, we wouldn't need this app anymore.

But as easiest solution for me, I would be happy if NextcloudServices would work with several servers.

markus2330 avatar Sep 08 '23 11:09 markus2330