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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.

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.

(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-...pberry-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... )

If you have an Android phone you can also download the Blitzortung app by WuAn.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai....app&hl=en

There is a setting to alert you when lightning is close.

The iOS-App "BlitzortungLive" alerts via push message within a few seconds. With Lightningmaps/MyBlitzortung you can send alerts via Twitter direct messages.