Phone Notifications

[malicious_banjo]

The very first time I set up this module I was getting notifications. After about ten minutes my log started reporting rateLimit errors, and notifications stopped coming in.

Since then, notifications don’t work at all. I’ve tried resetting all my tokens and starting over, I’ve completely removed/reinstalled the module, still nothing. I even bought a month of pro to see what would happen.

The log isn’t reporting any problems, it’s basically like my mirror doesn’t even know it’s connected to my account. Any ideas to fix it?

[ronny3050]

@malicious_banjo do you use Pushbullet a lot? There’s a limit on how many requests are given out per user.

If you use Pushbullet outside of this module, it is possible that you ran out of requests.

Seems like a good course of action will be to custom create an Android app that will push notifications.

[ronny3050]

@tnorling what do you say we create our own mobile application for both Android and iOS that can push notifications. This way, we won’t have to rely on Pushbullet and can control push limits.

[malicious_banjo]

@ronny3050 Nope, I made a PushBullet specifically for this module. The error returned after just two notifications on the mirror.

I can get a single notification to appear now, but only from the “Send Test Notification” button from the Mirroring menu on the Pushbullet app. The console will output null and then after that, nothing more.

[ronny3050]

@malicious_banjo the more I think about it, the more convinced I get that we should have our own application. The issue is I am not very knowledgeable in the workings of Pushbullet which will always limit my abilities to solve issues like this.

Do you think it is reasonable to have a widget installed on your Android phone that pushes notifications instead of relying on PushBullet?

[malicious_banjo]

@ronny3050 Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Would it abandon the usage of the PushBullet API/Access Token completely?

[ronny3050]

@malicious_banjo Yes, it will. It will be a lot of work, but I think it would work well due to the following advantages -

• Phone call alert with caller ID
• App for both Android and iOS
• No relying on push limits/month
• Issues can be resolved in an easier fashion

[malicious_banjo]

@ronny3050 Sounds great. I just finished my mirror a few days ago so I’m quite new to this community; have they’re been a fair amount of issues concerning this module? I’m guessing some kind of recent update to PushBullet is throwing everything out of whack?

[ronny3050]

@malicious_banjo said in Phone Notifications:

@ronny3050 Sounds great. I just finished my mirror a few days ago so I’m quite new to this community; have they’re been a fair amount of issues concerning this module? I’m guessing some kind of recent update to PushBullet is throwing everything out of whack?

It’s possible and yes, there are more issues than I would like to have. I’ll get started on this and update you. Please hang tight! :)

[ronny3050]

@malicious_banjo another advantage is pushbullet does not capture all notifications - it depends on the applications sending the notification. This should be resolved by having a custom app as well :)