Open Source Push Notifications! Get notified of any event you can imagine. Triggers abound!

[@autohmae]

What is extremely useful is that you can add action buttons to the notification, for monitoring: pause monitoring for X minutes or hours, decrease minimum disk space requirement by 1%.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

100% Awesome!

[@Mitsunee_]

a push notification service was the final puzzle piece I needed for a project actually. This looks really neat, I'll bookmark it for when I got time to start a new project and turn my little crawler into an automated service and never miss updates again, despite game devs not wanting to support RSS :)

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Awesome! Share your project when it’s done!

[@jetskisnowboardski]

I will use this to get notifications from our EV-charger when it has problems. Excellent tip! Thanks!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Awesome idea!

[@binwiederhier]

Howdy. ntfy maintainer here. Thank you for making this great video. Happy to answer questions!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That is awesome! Thanks for the really great open source software!

[@splaq]

Love this for my home lab, I have it hosted on a linode instance with my website, is there any way I can lock down the interface or disable the web interface? I dont want just anyone going in and sending push notifications, I've went through the process of setting up the auth-file, added a user and added a user on the web interface but when I goto it, there's no login or anything, just shows me as a visitor and allows me to do whatever I want. Thanks for any advice! great service!

[@kurban_s]

Could you provide a config for Treafik? I can’t seem to get it to work properly.

[@stayupthetree]

Says how to pronounce it on the screen, keeps being unsure on how to pronounce it 😂😂😂😂 good vid tho!!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It's true. it is on the screen, it's just there's another project called "Notify Send" so my brain just kept going back to "entify". Appreciate it.

[@Karg537]

Not fishy 😂

[@jasonperry6046]

Thank you. I have been thinking about playing with this for a while.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It’s pretty straight forward, and self hosted is always nice.

[@Supperconductor]

Great video & great project, thanks for showcasing this.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure!

[@haraldwolte3745]

Id be interested to hear the pros and cons of running things like this in docker

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

The pro of running anything in docker is that it doesn't muddy up your primary (host) OS with a bunch of files / dependencies that may not match the what other applications on the OS need. Removing a docker container is a single command as everything is gone. the cons are really just making sure you have persistent data volumes mapped, and proper networking setup the way you want to run things.

[@styl3rkin936]

Congrats on 100K subscribers! 🎉

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thank you!!

[@mikedoth]

Thanks for the video! While I love this for it's flexibility, i'd love to see an example of where system mail gets sent through this. Reason being it would remove the need for setting up your own mail server, or forwarding through someone else's service.

[@bryanmontgomery610]

I really hope the dev adds a front end login with 2FA.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You can always make the suggestion over on the github. It may already be there, and just needs a few votes from others to move it up on his list.

[@universodoclp]

Great content!!!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you liked it.

[@boydfields]

Great video. Very informative. Thank you!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

[@macncheezekx]

Using it in my games for user feedback!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

What an awesome idea!

[@lezz27]

Thanks for the video, Brian. This is indeed an amazing tool. I was wondering if you could do a follow-up video on how we can tie this up for a WAN monitoring and perhaps with UptimeKuma. I know the possibility is endless.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Let me see what I can put together for a few projects.

[@Flackon]

UptimeKuma natively supports sending notifications to ntfy. It's in the notifications section

[@Zeroxzed]

Thanks for the video. It is great.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you liked it!

[@marcsmith2505]

I've been looking for something like this for notifications. I have Uptime Kuma, Speedtest Tracker, etc. that i want to get notifications from. I was thinking about finding a docker SMTP relay just for notifications from my home lab apps. I'll give this a try. I guess I am looking for a "swiss army knife" for notifications. I know thats probably asking too much with all the different notification methods.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Almost exactly what I'm planning to do with it.

[@SWMDAjaxRacing]

I'm using webhooks to send notifications from uptime kuma to a discord server I created, then set the notifications from discord to always push through on my mobile.

[@bluesquare23]

Kinda cool. I can see some situations where it might come in handy. But tbh lotta work and you can already do all the sorta scripty admin stuff you're talking about by just using email. I use a cli smtp client and I get the notifications on my phone when my phone gets a new email. Very minimal setup. Lots of cheap managed hosting servers already have a sendmail compatible mail wrapper that you can use. On your own boxes you can setup msmtp or pine or mutt as an smtp client, or even just use a curl command to send messages. Then scriptypoo sendy send to your hearts content!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It's a bit of work, but really takes just a few minutes to setup. Then you can send a message to it from anywhere if you know the url, and the topic to subscribe to where you want to get notifications. It's really a nice alternative to emails for everything.

[@marcelfotografie6046]

Thanks for this great video

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You are very welcome. Thanks for watching.

[@belkomedia1013]

Epic video, would love to see a video on apprise

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Planned for the future my friend.

[@karthiksivakumar3108]

Great and Informative ❤

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you liked it

[@ashtonb1318]

This is amazing!!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Agree 100%

[@richardbennett4365]

Nice introduction to the application. I just wonder why the narrator doesn't pronounce the app as the way the creators wrote that he showed us at the beginning as how it is pronounced: NOTIFY.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Bad habits. I've been using the ntfy command line tool for years, and always pronounced it as "entify". No other reason than that. It is 100% meant to be pronounced "Notify".

[@ahmad1980595]

I love it, great

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks.

[@HectorDiabolucus]

Nice, thanks.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You bet!

[@stanlaurel672]

Apprise sounds interesting too but it is for another usecase.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Yes indeed. I'm looking forward to digging in on apprise in the future, but for now this is a great tool for notifications.

[@eesveryowncarrzkiss8596]

Love the keyboard in the intro. What is the make and model of it, please.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Here you go. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BJ4SJMP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1. It's just oneI found, and so far really like it and the mouse. (not an affiliate link)

[@brennonoverton8277]

Do you ever have to deal with DDOS? I am shocked you didn't blur anything in NPM!! Great guide though.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I've been fortunate for sure.

[@NikolayKulakov]

Nice service, thank you. BTW do you have video about this Nginx Proxy Manager?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I do. A couple of videos that might help. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZuth6B3fpZ3pZY, and kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipWofImGjMd2a5o

[@milicsantiago]

great!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thanks!

[@gg-gn3re]

I just run literally everything through matrix protocol lol. including sms and soon imap

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That is Awesome!

[@farzadmf]

Great video (as always). Question: in server.yml, what's the role of "upstream-base-url"; I see you set it to their URL, does it mean the message is somehow being routed through there?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Yes, this allows his server to relay the message through for Push.

[@farzadmf]

But then, doesn't that mean that this is not 100% self-hosted and requires their service to be up and running in order to work? 🤔

[@KaldeepSingh]

​@@farzadmfgood question... I would also like to know the answer to this

[@Acorn_Anomaly]

Well, I left a big reply here explaining it, but it's disappeared. =/ It's explained in the docs on the ntfy website. It's a workaround for background processing on iOS apps being heavily restricted, causing extreme delays for push notifications. If you're not using the iOS app, or you're willing to accept heavy delays, you can leave it unconfigured.

[@oliver-jamesmassam8077]

Just to add onto this as well, it also further explains in the documentation that you can setup your own FireBase Cloud Messaging account (Although it's usually not worth the effort). However, you would need to rebuild the mobile app to include your own FCM URL as it by default uses the upstream URL shown in this video to know *when* and *how* to fetch the message from your nfty server. As far as I can tell, the only "sensitive" information passed to FCM is the message ID and the SHA256 checksum of the topic URL so that the phone knows how to fetch the message from your server where all the data is actually sitting

[@kylelaker539]

localhost on outside network port like the one on the vide 8150 doesn't work on me I had unhealthy docker but the inside port or docker port 80 works for healthcheck. I'm not sure why it might be my ufw setup blocking it.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Definitely check the ufw, but also make sure that port 8150 is available on that machine.

[@na1du]

Hello is there video on how to set it up for private instance?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

That's what my video is showing.

[@Jearton]

How to integrate user system on server-side in order to achieve push notifications to individual users?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I believe it is possible with this, but it's not something I've setup yet.

[@ToniCorvera]

Not a big fan of having the Web UI "exposed" even when auth is enabled. Too bad because I'm looking for a replacement for Gotify

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Totally understand. I imagine you could put this behind proxy auth using something like Authelia or Authentik, etc.

[@ToniCorvera]

@@AwesomeOpenSource I considered enabling basic HTTP auth on my reverse proxy but figured that'd break message sending unless I exclude the API paths. Sounds like the kind of stuff that ends up full of nuances and becomes a multi-day "project". Maybe Authentik or the like would make it a walk in the park but I'm yet to look into those.

[@kenthhagstrom]

Is ntfy using a protocol of their own or is it based on something else? Reminds me about mqtt messages, the pub/sub part.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I think it uses the notify-send bash stuff in the command line, and then something like Firebase for push, but not totally sure on that.

[@user56]

why would you "sudo" for the server.yml file?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

The file was installed by the docker service, and is owned by root. So I have to use sudo to edit it.

[@ДмитрийКарпич]

Looks like interesting idea, but it seems moderate quality for server part (and little bit overengineered). Base idea should be simple.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I think this is pretty simple. It's documented very well, and easy to get up and running.

[@TismoGaming]

I’ve been at this for 2 days now. It’s refusing to send notifications to iOS . It’s infuriating.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Did you add the config lines I mentioned? That's the only thing I had to do to get iOS to get the notifications.

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Ah I've been doing this with pushover. Had an alias in my bashrc that lets me add a curl command that uses the api using the alias "notifyme '" after any command I run so I don't have to watch long commands.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Great tip!

[@harveydanger398]

How do you do that? Sounds interesting!

[@LewisCowles]

reading the docs it seemed like any other app using firebase... IDK

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

If you have another app that you like, then definitely use that. I just like that this one has some great documentation, and is very easy to understand. It makes it a tool I can see myself using for tons of things.

[@myhometvaccount9365]

simply would not EVER consider installing it as described in the video .... crazy that anyone can access the interface.. mad :(

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

There are options to secure access, as well as not putting it on open internet.

[@webdbase]

My question is : Can this be used as an alternative to, let's say Viber bot, and if yes, how? I want people to get notified about certain thing when they are available,

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I don't recall what Viber does, but looking at their site, it sounds like a chat platform. This would act as a platform for messages to and from anyone who knows how to post a message. If you want a secure Chat platform with notifications and Audio / Video, check out my last 2 videos on setting up your own Matrix - Dendrite server, and a Turn server for WebRTC. Might be more fitting.

[@RK-ly5qj]

I may see some vulnerabilities regarding this. There have been a few in the past.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

There are various ways to tighten up security, but report issues to the dev, that way he can work on them.

[@Dmkjr]

I have been playing with this for a few hours and for some reason I cannot get the docker compose file to deploy server.yml. I've created the file, but I still not geetting push notifications on IOS. hmm.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Sorry to hear it. If you'll jup over to discuss.opensourceisawesome.com and post in the #help-me-please channel, maybe I, or someone, can help you out.

[@Jose-Hdez]

asking for authentication :(

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

This is on your own server?

[@msueldo]

For self-hosting, is it free? This demo you're showing, is it a paid version?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

No, I'm showing it using the self hosted, open source software at no cost. That said, there are som epaid options if you believe you'll have a lot o notifications for push. You can check out the options at this link ntfy.sh/#pricing. I personally have become a monthly sponsor on Github for this project as well.

[@msueldo]

Thanks for answering. Great video as always. @@AwesomeOpenSource

[@shalandichannel]

is it possible to use ntfy on the client side (PWA) without installing the ntfy app ? meaning, is it possible to register just any service worker to the ntfy server, similarly to how one would do using firebase ?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I suppose I'm not technically knowledgeable enough in firebase to answer this question. If you don't use the actual app, you won't get push notifications when the pwa isn't running (at least on iOS) as far as I know.

[@karacan2469]

I tought I can use it instead of onesignal for my reactjs project but it seems I can not use it unfortunately, any alternative?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You might check out Apprise to see what it has.

[@Anuitu2u]

Gotify? Ntfy. What's the difference?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Different project that do very similar things. Pick the one you like the best.

[@kavehvahidinaeini8338]

Hi Brian Thanks for your great work Could you please give some instructions on how to set NTFY as push notification for zabbix server?

[@vishalgaurav4411]

how is the android/ios client working under the hood? How do they always are connected to the server? Curious to know. Thanks

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

The clients aren't always connected to the server, but receive a push notification of various events in the server with respect to your account. Direct Message, message in a channel / group, etc.

[@vishalgaurav4411]

@@AwesomeOpenSource Thanks for the reply. Can you please share me some keywords for learning about sending push notifications. I understand that googling will help but it would be great if you could share some. One notification service I know is FCM. Curious to know how a server can send notification to client rather than the typical requests initiated by client then waiting for the response.

[@Drugvigil]

Bro I am writing blogs. I do want two things one is push notifications to my site, then the other is want to collect emails and I can offer a freebie. How do I make it possible with my site from FOSS.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

If your site has an RSS feed built in, that's the best route for your readers.

[@Drugvigil]

@@AwesomeOpenSource think WordPress has by default RSS feed built in.l

[@marcfair3d]

I don't get HTTPS to work:/

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Any errors?

[@VarunDeva23]

Is this similar to onesignal? Can we use this for web application push notifications? when new posts published need to notify

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I would imaging it could depend on how popular the site is, and how many push notifications are being sent. There are limits no doubt. You wouldn't want to run a mastodon, or twitter on this, but for occasional messages it should be fine. I'd guess a hundred messages a day or so would be a drop in the bucket.

[@autohmae]

The documentation says they also have web application push notifications and supposedly even background web application push notifications

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

@@autohmae yes, I believe that’s when you get the browser message about allowing notifications and click ‘Allow’

[@autohmae]

@@AwesomeOpenSource yes, that works when the browser is opened BUT the 'background web application push notifications' depends on installing a website as a Progressive Web App (PWA) from the browser, example: if you open twitter in Chromium in the menu 'install twitter'. On your phone it might be called: add to home screen or save to home screen. An other commonly used examples: office 365 outlook or 3cx web client phone, etc.

[@emekanwankudu]

What PC/system are you using?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

This one was recorded on Linux Mint 21 running on an old Dell Laptop - Latitude E6430 (came out in 2012), running a 3rd Gen i7 SSD and 16 GB RAM.

[@uuu12343]

Hi! Does this require any form of port forwarding to access from outside?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

For the domain name, you have to either forward port 80 and 443 to your reverse proxy, or you will need to setup something like wireguard tunnel or cloudflare tunnels to allow the traffic to pass properly when not on the same network. If you're only going to post notifications from inside your local network, you can just use the IP of the machine.

[@uuu12343]

@@AwesomeOpenSource oh i see, but if I wanna use the notifications outside of my home network, how would you go about with that?

[@caioguibr]

Speaking of backup. I need to backup windows servers. Anyone can point any open source solution ? I use pushover for quite some time. Ntfy is nice

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

URBackup is a decent client / server backup solution that will work on Windows, Docker, Linux, etc.

[@tigrezno2626]

the android app consumes too much battery, that's why I keep using pushover

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Definitely let the developer know it's using a lot of power, and maybe he can work to adjust it.

[@davidaw104]

Vulnerable to RCE?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It's really just an API system, that then sends a push notification. I'd say checking the code for issues is better than me guessing at it.

[@Richard-kl8wr]

its not secured via username and passwordf wtf

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You have the option to secure the messages. The interface itself is not, however. You can, though, use something like Authelia or Authentik to secure the web page. The messages API you wouldn't though.

[@myhometvaccount9365]

have to admit this is a biggie... i simply would not EVER consider installing it as described in the video .... crazy that anyone can access the interface.. mad :(

[@danielt6810]

How does this differ from gotify?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I'm not familiar with what all gotify does, so I can't comment specifically on what may be different between them. They may do the same types of things.

[@dkeisk]

According to your knowledge could one "misuse it" as a tool for pushing a yes-no action based notification? What i mean by that is assume you have a task A and you want to ask for the user permission to proceed with the task so you send through a self hosted ntfy server a push notification to the mobile with the action yes or no. If yes it is clicked my script proceeds if not then the script aborts. I mean kinda like pingID or duo ssh/web sdk notification yes-no notifications 😋. If you know a better tool for the job please direct me in the right direction 😋. Thanks in advance

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You could use it for that. It has actions you can script to happen. There's some great documentation on it in there. I think the whole purpose of Actions is to make sure they are used powerfully.

[@ExperienceYT]

Pushover is cheap and one time fee.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I tried pushover at one point, never got it to work with iOS. Use what works for you best.

[@arthurararuna]

Isn't it pronounced like "nifty" or "nifty-sh"?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

No, on thier github it says it's pronounced "notify". I've just been saying "entify" for so long i can't stop.

[@richardbennett4365]

He says, "bring down the containers" at 17:23, but he writes the word "up" in the command line. No wonder only certain people become it professionals. Who could understand that backwards talk? I know what he means, but if he's teaching here, then his words are potentially confusing to a noob.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I appreciate you pointing that out. I'll try to be more mindful of explaining better that re-using the 'docker compose up' command will actually 'cycle' the container and update the configurations without having to use multiple commands.

[@Glatze603]

First you should say "thanks for this video, your time and your work on this"!

[@richardbennett4365]

@@Glatze603 , Indeed! Thanks to the person who put in hours researching, editing, and publishing the presentation.

[@ernestoditerribile]

Wow what a horrible keyboard on the intro. Also would’ve expected Lenovo or NetApp drivebays instead of that crappy Dell server.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I love my little low travel keyboard. My server works fine for what I need.

[@ernestoditerribile]

@@AwesomeOpenSource I really thought you had something nice and mechanical. Like a Wooting Two He or something. Then I saw that little travel keyboard. Why did you choose for Dell. Most datacenters have ditched them for Lenovo/IBM counterparts, because of reliability. Especially when you have server loads over 80% the thermal designs and overall build quality makes a huge difference.

[@ernestoditerribile]

@@AwesomeOpenSource by the way I love the tool you’ve displayed. I will install it tomorrow in a few test setups I have at home. And will maybe implement it later at my clients locations.

[@ernestoditerribile]

@@AwesomeOpenSource SR650(Dual CPUor X3850 X6(Quad CPU) X3950 X6(Octo CPU) servers are really best in class if you don’t compare them to IBM Power(AIX) Mainframes.

[@sagarsriva]

Great video!

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you enjoyed it