Vera Alert block external services as the google queue.

Apps & Remote Access VeraAlerts
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Hi,

Was wonder since I didn’t find any information about the google message system and the android app. The thing is that I don’t want any notifications going outside to any external service be it mios or google. So If I install your app how can I set it up so It don’t use the google message queue and only uses my internal network?

Same goes for the settings for the veralite plugin - how do I set it up so it don’t use any external services?

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Have you checked out the documentation? Are you talking about strictly LAN or WAN also? the documentation is great for a LAN situation. We could use a guide for more advanced things like using a VPN and so on.

3

The documentation doesn’t mention what I’ve asked here, but I have a guess how to do it… but wan’t to get full information from the source so to speak how to be sure.

And another wondering is, if I can pump messages to the Android client from other sources in the same LAN. Like if I wan’t to send messages from my router or firewall and etc.

4

You can send a Vera Alert from ANY HTTP enabled source.
The URL is of the form:

http://veraalertsexchange.appspot.com/SendAlert?msg=XXXXX&recipient=YYYYY

Where XXXXX is the message to send. You can include some of the tags … like tone, BGColor, and FGColor … in the message … but the other tags documented on the Vera Alerts Plugin page are processed by the plugin before passing them on to the Vera Alerts Exchange.
You may have to URL encode the XXXXX message based on the message being passed.

YYYYY is of course your Vera Alerts ID … It is required.

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Sounds great but the problem is that I don’t want my home automation traffic outside my LAN - having it off internet is a saftey precaution. So my which is beeing able to use the same calls the VeraAlerts plugin uses to talk to the android app over LAN.

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The documentation already talks about how to connect on the LAN interface.
But it is NOT http protocol.

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I know, it’s a tcp socket message - trying to figure out how to do it with a shell script and netcat. Just receiving empty messages in the VeraAlerts at the moment.