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Future SW feature "Mobile phone notification on..."? - elythomaslumber - 2016-10-30
He all, hi developers,
I'm running a Blue System with the latest Beta-SW version. This one has a feature "ALERTS" and "ACTION" where the system calls an URL or makes some noise depending on the set parameters.
So my idea for a future SW release is if there is enough free memory left to implement a feature which brings a notification to a mobile phone or tablet if an individual limit is exceeded.
For example I'm using a home automation system based on a open source platform using a Raspberry Pi (http://www.domoticz.com/) where the developers have implemented the option to trigger those notifications.
You need a personal API-key which has to be stored in the setup and an APP on the phone like from those:
https://www.prowlapp.com/
http://www.notifymyandroid.com/
https://pushover.net/
Then depending on the settings a message will pop up on the phone if some value is exceeded even if the phone is in idle mode.
RE: Future SW feature "Mobile phone notification on..."? - piepants - 2016-11-01
There's already a feature on LightningMaps.org to have it send e-mails when a specified number of strokes is detected within a certain range of set coordinates, I've been using this myself to get alerted when a storm is nearby so I can set up for photography. See the "user area" tab and "stroke alerts".
It would be good to have push notifications to mobiles as an option rather than e-mail though, it would (possibly) use less data and definitely be less clutter in my inbox.
RE: Future SW feature "Mobile phone notification on..."? - elythomaslumber - 2016-11-02
(2016-11-01, 05:12)piepants Wrote: There's already a feature on LightningMaps.org to have it send e-mails when a specified number of strokes is detected within a certain range of set coordinates, I've been using this myself to get alerted when a storm is nearby so I can set up for photography. See the "user area" tab and "stroke alerts".
It would be good to have push notifications to mobiles as an option rather than e-mail though, it would (possibly) use less data and definitely be less clutter in my inbox.
I tried a little bit around with THINGSPEAK (https://thingspeak.com/) as a temporary workaround using ThingHTTP. Using ThingHttp it is possible to fetch specific data from a webpage like Blitzortung and "parse" it. I tried it with Firefox (embedded Firebug and Firepath) to extract the xpath. This information can be used to trigger a PROWL push notification.
Some basic information how to fetch data from a web-page can be found here: http://techiesms.com/blog/fetching-data-from-website-using-raspberry-pi/
My results were not very satisfying.
The ThingHTTP parser is not working well. I can parse some values but most of them not or I get a wrong result. The push notification with ThingHTTP is working well. I got a notification triggered with ThingHTTP on my iPad with installed PROWL App.
For those who are more experienced like me and interested here's my idea for a work-around until maybe in future a developer is willing to go a way like native support of PROWL or similar:
1. ThingHTTP fetches specific data from the Blitzortung webpage or from the SystemBlue server webpage
2. the data will be processed by a server like on a Raspberry Pi or with ThingSpeak Mathlab...
3. If a value is exceeded ThingHTTP will trigger PROWL (or a similar App) and a notification is pushed to a mobile phone
(4. or to trigger any other stuff like warning lamp in the living room if more and more lighning strikes are deteced in closer range, or or or...
)
RE: Future SW feature "Mobile phone notification on..."? - kevinmcc - 2016-11-03
If you have an Android phone you can also download the Blitzortung app by WuAn.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.blitzortung.android.app&hl=en
There is a setting to alert you when lightning is close.
RE: Future SW feature "Mobile phone notification on..."? - Tobi - 2016-11-07
The iOS-App "BlitzortungLive" alerts via push message within a few seconds. With Lightningmaps/MyBlitzortung you can send alerts via Twitter direct messages.