Send from Web UI?

[jscottelblein]

So, I'm in the Gotify WebUI, and I want to send a message to one of the Clients in my list of Clients (or perhaps even "broadcast" the same message to all of them), how do I do this?

One simple example is I have a password that I created on my desktop, and want to send it over to my phone via a gotify msg.

[jmattheis]

Hey @STaRDoGG.

Clients aren't supposed to send messages only applications are (See https://gotify.net/docs/). To send a message you've to create an application and then push a message. See https://gotify.net/docs/pushmsg

Still, it may be useful to send messages via the ui, so I'm changing this issue to a feature request.

[4oo4]

I would like to see this too, but understand why it's currently not there. I know when I switched to this from Pushbullet, I had to get used to the difference between an application and a client, whereas with Pushbullet a device kinda acted like both. So not the most important thing to have but might help people switch from Pushbullet.

[jscottelblein]

Hmmmm... I promise I'm not trying to be a snot, lol, but I can't:

• Send any notifs/messages from the Web UI to 1 or more apps (or devices)
• Can't send any notifs/messages to other apps/clients/devices from the official Android app
• Can't view notifs/msgs as they come in from any windows client other than loading a browser

I was hoping to 100% replace Pushbullet, as it's very unreliable, and the devs are out to lunch, plus I love the idea of a self hosted notif server, but it doesn't really seem that gotify is meant as a replacement, so to speak? Some very basic (imho) things aren't there like just passing notifications around to all of your clients in any direction at will (i.e. my Android phone, tablet, windows machine, pi, etc.)

Is any of this planned (other than the web ui feature request you added)?

P.S. don't take this the wrong way, I still think Gotify is very cool and appreciate all the work put into it, I just thought/hoped it would be a bit more "robust".

[jscottelblein]

I know when I switched to this from Pushbullet, I had to get used to the difference between an application and a client, whereas with Pushbullet a device kinda acted like both.

I agree; it is a lil 'weird' to get used to I spose, lol. But what also adds to the confusion is even in the literal Android 'app' you can't create and send from the app to anything. It's kinda just 'dead' unless it receives something from elsewhere.

[jmattheis]

@STaRDoGG

I was hoping to 100% replace Pushbullet, as it's very unreliable, and the devs are out to lunch, plus I love the idea of a self hosted notif server, but it doesn't really seem that gotify is meant as a replacement, so to speak?

Is it marketed as replacement for Pushbullet? I don't think so.

Some very basic (imho) things aren't there like just passing notifications around to all of your clients in any direction at will (i.e. my Android phone, tablet, windows machine, pi, etc.)

Different people have different needs and it is impossible to satisfy everyone. Originally, I've developed Gotify just for notifications when certain events occur on my server like a ssh login.
I'm just sharing a solution to exactly my problem/use-case not someone else's.

Is any of this planned (other than the web ui feature request you added)?

Can't send any notifs/messages to other apps/clients/devices from the official Android app

gotify/android#72 is the feature request for adding send functionality to the android app.

Can't view notifs/msgs as they come in from any windows client other than loading a browser

Is this a problem? There are clients in the making by the community f.ex. https://github.com/ajmcateer/GotifyDesktop

[jscottelblein]

Ahh see? I knew my comment would still be taken as offense, even though I mentioned twice that I didn't mean it that way. I was just trying to understand why so much functionality seems 'missing' in it (at least so far).

Agreed, you personally may not market it as "a pushbullet replacement", but it usually is placed in the same group by others, so it's easy to get confused. i.e. any software that allows sending notifications w/3rd party software, and some websites, like this:

https://alternativeto.net/software/pushbullet/

And feature-wise it can get a bit confusing even going on the wording on your website. For example:

... server features a WebUI and functionality for:

sending messages via a REST-API

Could easily be taken to mean you can send messages from the webui, that gets sent via a rest-api.

And earlier you said:

Clients aren't supposed to send messages only applications are

And your website says:

managing users, clients and applications

(I know one says 'sending' and one says 'managing', but it'd be easy to assume managing also includes sending until you go to try it and find out that you can't.)

Anyway, again, not bitching, even though I know it sounds that way. Just trying to dial in exactly what Gotify "does", and doesn't do, to see if it's something I need, or need to go back to something else instead. Though I'd love to see Gotify have the features I mention since I like it's looks, and self-hosting ability.

[jmattheis]

I'm not offended (:.

Yep, I think you always can take different meanings out of texts, but your interpretation makes sense.

As a conclusion, sending messages from the ui/android app is a planned feature.

[jmattheis]

It is a feature request, therefore the issue should stay open.

[jscottelblein]

@pm-pm

WebUI in Pushover:

Pushover app:

These are pretty basic things; you don't have to manage addressbooks, etc. LOL (any more than you already do at least).

[beac0n]

@jmattheis I'm interested in this feature as well, and I would like to implement it :-)

I see this button on the lower right in the web ui, which seemingly has no function (If I click on it, nothing happens.)

I would hide that functionality behind this button. Any objections/hints where to implement this in the frontend?