Notification infrastructure

[picciux]

Hi Radek,

first, thank you very much for Astroberry, I really appreciate it. During astrophoto sessions, something can go wrong: it's not an astroberry thing, it's that systems are never perfect. I thought: would be nice if Ekos could notify me when an error occur; and found KStars has a configurable notification system. Good! But... hey... How can I see/hear notifications in a headless system? I should mount a speaker on my tube? I have to vnc it all the time to check problems? Mhm... a remote bluetooth speaker? Best of all: receive a notification on my phone! Ok so... push notifications: all notification services are cloud (and internet) based, but often dark skyes are not "connected", at least for me. Found Gotify and works perfectly. I'm still doing some tweaks to integrate it in Astroberry, but basically it's there. One step further. People can have different needs: users with a remote-internet-connected-obsy would obviously benefit from a cloud based push notification service, for instance. My idea is a notification infrastructure for Astroberry:

• a frontend (basically a bash script) to send notification (called by KStars notifications when an event occurs)
• a backend that does the actual notification stuff. Astroberry will provide Gotify as a local/lan/standalone backend. Other backends (for cloud based services, etc.) could be implemented in the future.

A simple config file can be used for choosing the backend and enabling gotify or not (if not needed).

In a few days I think I could provide a tar archive with my Astroberry-Gotify integration, as soon as I finished testing it, for you to evaluate.

What do you think about it?

Thanks for all your work.

[rkaczorek]

This is really cool idea! Thanks for sharing this. Let me know when you're ready and I will give it a look and build a debian package so it can be pushed to the repository.

[rkaczorek]

Hi, any update on this?

[picciux]

Sorry Radek, been busy. Hope to send you something tomorrow.

[picciux]

Almost ready: how to send you files? Thanks

[rkaczorek]

Depends on the size. If too big for email share it via any cloud service and send me a link via email

[picciux]

Sent email.

[rkaczorek]

Got it! Thanks Matteo. I will look at it over weekend