Pushover Plugin - push notifications

[vasisht]

OK took a very long time - but finally figured out how to send a pushover alert with python, so I removed my prior questions.

Here's my code for anyone else who is interested in replicating this

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def sendAlert(alert, priority=0):
          alertPlugin = indigo.server.getPlugin('io.thechad.indigoplugin.pushover')
          if alertPlugin.isEnabled():
                    indigo.server.log('pushover plugin is available')
                    alertProps = {  'msgTitle'       :      'Home automation server',
                                        'msgBody'        :      alert,
                                        'msgSound'       :      'pushover',
                                        'msgPriority'    :      priority,
                                        'msgDevice'      :      '',
                                        'msgSupLinkUrl'  :      '',
                                        'msgSupLinkTitle':      ''
                                     }  
                    alertPlugin.executeAction("send", props=alertProps)
          else:
                    indigo.server.log('pushover plugin is not available')

[edrabbit]

Running into a bit of a weird problem.

Running Indigo 6.0.16 on OS X 10.9.5
Installed v1.1.2 of Pushover plugin (https://github.com/IndigoDomotics/indig ... tag/v1.1.2)
Set things up, working great, did not try variable substitution.
Downloaded and upgraded to marceltrapman's v2.0.5 (https://github.com/IT2BE/indigo-pushover/tree/v2.0.5) because I wanted to support multiple keys.
Created a simple test Action to try sending a message with a variable that tells me the score of my cat bathroom using a variable "cat_bathroom_score". (More info)
Message is simply:

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Cat Bathroom score is too damn high %%v:cat_bathroom_score%%

I try executing from the Indigo client manually to test, and it does not give any errors, however I never receive a push notification. As far as I can tell it never gets to Pushover's server.
If I try to open up the Action and click "Edit Action Settings" the dialog for setting title/message/etc doesn't show and eventually I see the following in the Event Log:

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Error (client)                  timeout waiting for plugin response from io.thechad.indigoplugin.pushover for request UiGetValues2
  Error (client)                  timeout waiting for plugin response from io.thechad.indigoplugin.pushover for request CallPluginFunc
  Error (client)                  dialogForActionId() caught exception: NSInvalidArgumentException -- *** -[__NSPlaceholderDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:count:]: attempt to insert nil object from objects[0]

I'm unable to get to the Edit Action Settings dialog both from a client on the same machine as the server as well as a remote client on another machine running OS X 10.9.5. I have to restart the Indigo Server in order to go back in and edit the action settings. Then it works fine until I try to execute it and then I have to restart again. I upgraded to Indigo 6.0.18 in case it was a bug in Indigo, but same behavior.

If I remove "%%v:cat_bathroom_score%%" from the message, push works totally fine. Looks like either I'm doing something wrong, or there's some errors that aren't being handled, or something.

[edrabbit]

Of course I forgot to mention my appreciation for such a useful plugin! Thanks to everyone putting in work on this. It really changes things for me and my house.

[DrLove]

Hi, great plug in!

Is it possible to send messages to more than one client and not all? Say iPhone1 and iPhone2 but not iPad3?
Tested w/ iPhone1,iPhone2 and iPhone1;iPhone2 but all clients receive the message.

Best regards, L

[richo]

Unfortunatelly I also have problems with variables. If I insert it either in the title or body Pushover plugin hangs for a while and I get the following message in the log:

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Error (client)                  timeout waiting for plugin response from io.thechad.indigoplugin.pushover for request UiGetValues2
  Error (client)                  timeout waiting for plugin response from io.thechad.indigoplugin.pushover for request CallPluginFunc
  Error (client)                  dialogForActionId() caught exception: NSInvalidArgumentException -- *** -[__NSPlaceholderDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:count:]: attempt to insert nil object from objects[0]

Anything can be done? I desperately need it working

[MarcoGT]

I haven't looked at docs yet (I have downloaded it).
Does it send push notifications also via Internet?

[davinci]

Indigo almost crashes when using variables in the pushover plugin.

It recovers with this message:

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  Error (client)                  timeout waiting for plugin response from io.thechad.indigoplugin.pushover for request UiGetValues2
  Error (client)                  timeout waiting for plugin response from io.thechad.indigoplugin.pushover for request CallPluginFunc
  Error (client)                  dialogForActionId() caught exception: NSInvalidArgumentException -- *** -[__NSPlaceholderDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:count:]: attempt to insert nil object from objects[0]

[MarcoGT]

As far as I understood, the pushover account is free for only 7 days, right?

[MarcoGT]

Bought the iOS license, installed and configured, working like a charm.
Wonderful plugin, thanks

[markf424]

Agreed - so glad to be done with the Google SMS method of alerting. Pushover is much more powerful, with the time of day alerts, specific sounds, etc.

[markf424]

Also a note to those having trouble with the variable substitution - make sure you're using the variable ID instead of the name. That is, your substitution should look like:

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%%v:54353621%%

and not

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%%v:hotPotato%%

The plugin doesn't validate this field and that's why it dies with the error listed above in the thread.

[discgolfer1138]

So glad to see folks are finding this useful! Sorry I haven't had any free time to update it, but it sounds like Marcel and others have adopted it. Huge thanks to them for their hard work

[MarcoGT]

Yesterday I had a strange behaviour.

I was testing my alarm system.
I have a trigger on a movement sensor, and when it gets breached:

- it send email + pushover notification
- it sets the variable alarmStatus to "fault"; this variable change triggers another trigger which sends e-mail+pushover notification.

I do not understand why I only got the second pushover notification (if I test the first alone, without the second trigger everything is fine).
Why?
Pushover does not accept two notifications in a short time?

Thanks
Marco

[DrLove]

I've seen this behavior to. I had to put a delay between the events :/

[MarcoGT]

Thanks for the confirmation.

By the way, in the Indigo logs I see that both Pushover notification have been sent, but I receive only one...