<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 7, 2024, at 4:17 PM, James Abernathy <jfabernathy@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 3:56 PM Peter Bennett <<a href="mailto:pb.mythtv@gmail.com">pb.mythtv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><u></u><div><p><br></p><div>On 8/7/24 15:30, James Abernathy wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#1f1f1f" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">I wanted to branch off the original topic about event posting to talk specifically about doing it with nfty.sh that Peter had mentioned. </span></font><div><font color="#1f1f1f" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1f1f1f" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">On a test mythtv FE/BE combo I installed the ntfy software package and then the Android app on my phone. On my phone I used the + button to subscribe to a topic whose name meant something to me related to the mythtv-database-backup systemd service I have running once a day. </span></font></div><div><font color="#1f1f1f" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#1f1f1f" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">In the bash shell script that the systemd service runs I just added the command:</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace;"><span style="">curl -d "nucboxg3 mythconverg Checked and Backed Up, RC=0"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://ntfy.sh/jfa-mythtv-database-backup" target="_blank">ntfy.sh/jfa-mythtv-database-backup</a></span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: monospace;"><span style=""><br></span></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">This worked and now I get the notifications on my phone instead of the email that I used to get back when it was easier to add external mail to a running program.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Next I tested the System Events in mythtv backend setup via the Web App and put in a similar curl command and I picked the Recording Started event. That worked as well.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">From what I can figure out I'm using their service via their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://ntfy.sh/" target="_blank">https://ntfy.sh</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and I don't have an account setup. So it's free. Their cheapest fee plan is $5/month for an annual plan. That gives you a lot of messages per day and a lot of other services I don't need or want. I'm not sure what I want to do. They talk about self hosting, but not sure why I'd need that. Maybe just a donation to their project might be a way to support this?</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thought?</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Jim A</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><br></blockquote><p>I just use the free service. I could not see anywhere on the site what restrictions there may be on free accounts.</p><p>Peter</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>If you are wanting to just receive a text message as part of the ntfy.sh script, your cell phone company ought to have the ability to receive text that has been sent to a specific url. I know Verizon, att, cricket, tmobile all have the ability. That way no ap pis required and no signup, etc, etc…. As notifications like that. I use this in several places, as well as using it in home-assistant.<div><br></div><div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Regards!<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"></div></div><div><br></div></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Thanks for your opinion. I forgot to mention that I wondered if there was anything to be concerned about by using this service? They mentioned the topic names were public, but I don't care if someone sees that my mythtv-database got backed up.</div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">mythtv-users mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">MythTV Forums:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org/" style="font-family: Palatino-Roman; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">https://forum.mythtv.org</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>