So I was looking for a way to get notifications from Vera to Chrome when I am at work. Originally I was going to go with making an automatic post in a closed google+ apps community and then just have chrome alert me when that open tab changes but a lot more work than I wanted to put in. I still like this approach as I can then add others to that community when wanted. Next I looked at just sending notification straight to chrome, but as I don’t have an “app” I don’t have an extension to publish to chrome web store to use. I noticed in the documentation for GCM you can use chrome.pushMessaging and since VeraAlerts already uses GCM for the Android app, figured I would make a feature request for it.
In the mean time I have a tasker profile that flips a virtual switch in Vera when I am at work. Then a scene kicks off and updates VeraAlerts to send to an email to my notify my android an email. When an outside armed camera trips, VeraAlerts sends email, then tasker monitors notify my android for a specific subject line and then sends an alert to chrome with autoremote and auto opens the camera stream.
In the end, I just want a way to get notified on my work linux desktop about alerts without using email.
Thanks RTS, my solution currently works but as I am jumping through your SMTP, to NMA, to AutoRemote, during peak hours it sometimes takes over a minute before the notification gets to Chrome.
One thing to note with AutoRemote, is I was able to make the notification automatically open a URL in a new tab which I really like, I actually have it send the direct URL for streaming as the URL.
I understand you’re looking for a way to get automated notifications on your linux desktop, so this comment might not be relevant. If you have a smartphone, an alternative approach might be to use the Pushover app. I just glanced at the app store and noted that it costs $5, so that might be a non-starter, but from firsthand experience I can strongly recommend this approach. I get alerts nearly instantly no matter where I am.
If notifications in chrome is an absolute must, there might be a way to do this via XMPP or IRC, but it would have as many moving parts as the email solution you mentioned already–it just might be lower latency.
I just realized that RTS is the author of the Pushover plugin, and that you’re already looking into XMPP and vera alerts (in other thread). So nevermind on both accounts.
Adding profiles to Vera Alerts is now pretty easy. (After the last major update).
Demonstrate the interface in LUA code … indicates the desired parameters … and it will take about 5 minutes.
I was looking for basically the same capability: use Vera Alerts to send notifications to Chrome. It looks like it’d be possible to use a Chrome App connected to GCM to receive messages. Does one currently exist?
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