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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
5
submitters
2
observed span
2019–2024
peak thread · 22 comments
163 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-02-01
114 pts

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2007–2026

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This is pretty cool, I drop the following shell script on all my servers: #!/bin/bash if [[ -z $1 && -z $2 ]]; then echo "No Message passed" else if [[ -z $2 ]]; then curl -s --form-string "token=MYAPPTOKEN" --form-string "user=MYUSERTOKEN" --form-string "message=$1" https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json else curl -s --form-string "token=MYAPPTOKEN" --form-string "user=MYUSERTOKEN" --form-string "title=$1" --form-string "message=$2" https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json fi fi It's SUPER basic and probably…

How does it work, does it still use Firebase Cloud Messaging and Apple Push Notification Service underneath?

6 months ago [I posted about Apprise here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19023196) and got a lot of amazing and encouraging feedback! I since took just about everyone's comments and ideas at the time and implemented most of them. Apprise now supports over 40+ different notification services, including configuration files that can be read from disk and the cloud! The library remains incredible light weight and easy to use. I just wanted to share an almost completed solution and hope to hit you all up…

l2g·35-point thread·

This would be great as a Home Assistant integration. Well done!

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