HS3 Pushover Plugin

[zwolfpack]

In the Pushover app is a "Pushover for Teams" link. However it's a premium service ($5/user/month).

[DLONG2]

Right. But that's for different devices/groups on the same Pushover account, no? I need to be able to send pushes to devices on different Pushover accounts (different user keys), but I do not see a way to add more user keys to the plugin.

Hmm. I guess what you need to do is not possible then. I would contact PushOver.net and explain that you have devices which need to use more than one account, and see what they say.

[teladog01]

As I recall, the only need is to purchase the PushOver app for any and each device which will be receiving pushes. Then within the Pushover.net account settings on the internet you can specify a group name to receive pushes, or just individual devices. Part of the API call (within HomeSeer) is to specify which device or group name would be recipients. Hope this is correctly stated and helps. Hence, no need for additional accounts or key codes, etc.

Right. But that's for different devices/groups on the same Pushover account, no? I need to be able to send pushes to devices on different Pushover accounts (different user keys), but I do not see a way to add more user keys to the plugin.

[DLONG2]

For as long as I have used Pushover, it has only ever been for a single device (mine). Now I need to add my fiance's and her kids' devices to the plugin, but am struggling to find a way to do so.

I see where I can add additional devices to my own Pushover account and use the different device or group names in events. But what I need to do is add additional user keys to the plugin that correspond to the additional users' devices on their own Pushover accounts. How do I do that?

Surely I am not limited to a single Pushover account? As an IT security professional, I don't see any scenario where I enter my own Pushover account credentials on a bunch of other devices that are not in my control

As I recall, the only need is to purchase the PushOver app for any and each device which will be receiving pushes. Then within the Pushover.net account settings on the internet you can specify a group name to receive pushes, or just individual devices. Part of the API call (within HomeSeer) is to specify which device or group name would be recipients. Hope this is correctly stated and helps. Hence, no need for additional accounts or key codes, etc.

[teladog01]

For as long as I have used Pushover, it has only ever been for a single device (mine). Now I need to add my fiance's and her kids' devices to the plugin, but am struggling to find a way to do so.

I see where I can add additional devices to my own Pushover account and use the different device or group names in events. But what I need to do is add additional user keys to the plugin that correspond to the additional users' devices on their own Pushover accounts. How do I do that?

Surely I am not limited to a single Pushover account? As an IT security professional, I don't see any scenario where I enter my own Pushover account credentials on a bunch of other devices that are not in my control

[DLONG2]

You are correct, that was the case. However now that I was going to have another look at the drop-down, it seems to be blank both for existing and new actions. Not sure what happened there, but as I recall the list did contain the standard sounds only. Do you know if the drop-down is populated based on a fixed set of sounds, or does it pull the values from the Pushover API?

After I had written, I went and tried the custom sound. It was added into the dashboard, and the test notification worked via the dashboard, but the HS plug in still showed the fixed list of sounds, not showing the custom sound name I had added to the dashboard. I am assuming the custom sounds is a whole new idea from the developer, and I hope the HS plug in might get an update soon. A custom sound would be ideal, rather than associating a bicycle bell to an event, it could just announce it.

[prk]

I haven't looked into custom sounds yet, but I am guessing that although you've uploaded a sound file into the Pushover dashboard, then when building an HS script the sound's file name is not showing as a drop-down option?

I wonder if it might be possible to overwrite sound files on the local storage, using the default file names?

You are correct, that was the case. However now that I was going to have another look at the drop-down, it seems to be blank both for existing and new actions. Not sure what happened there, but as I recall the list did contain the standard sounds only. Do you know if the drop-down is populated based on a fixed set of sounds, or does it pull the values from the Pushover API?

[mcisar]

I could be wrong but I suspect it isn’t anything to do with Pushover but more likely the replacement variable status lagging slightly behind in HS. Try putting a 1sec wait before the notification action in the event and see if you then get the correct status.

Hmmm, interesting thought... I'll try that when I get back home.

[SteveMSJ]

Am having a little bit of an oddity with a couple of pushover notifications (I'm running HS4 fwiw), hoping someone might have a clue what is happening. Pretty simple stuff, send a notification when (zwave) lock unlocks, send a notification when lock locks. The notifications are working fine, message title is good but the variable substitution in the message body seems to come out reversed from what I'd be expecting.

So in the message body I have this for the "unlocked" event...

<B><font color=red>Unlocked</font> </B><BR> $$DSR:969:<BR> at $TIME on $DATE

And this for the "locked" event...

<B><font color=green>Locked</font> </B><BR> $$DSR:969:<BR> at $TIME on $DATE

If I look in the HS4 logs we see...

[FONT=Calibri][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=black]2021-06-12 8:55:49 PM[/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=black]Legacy-Plugin[/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=black]Z-Wave[/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=black]Device: Lock Front Door Access Control Notification Set to NOTIFICATION for type Access Control Notification, Event: RF Lock Operation[/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]

Looking at the device in the HS4 console we see the "RF Lock Operation" status as I would expect.

*BUT* the Pushover notification comes in reversed ("RF Unlock Operation" for when locked and "RF Lock Operation" when unlocked).



Just to make sure I wasn't seeing things I tried swapping the status codes within the lock device itself... when I did that the notifications were right in Pushover, but wrong everywhere else.

I should also mention that the various other status messages (Manual Lock/Unlock, Keypad Lock/Unlock) are working properly... it's just the "RF Lock/Unlock" that show up reversed in the pushover notifications. Seems very strange to me as I would have thought a substitution was exactly just that, a substitution. Any thoughts?

I could be wrong but I suspect it isn’t anything to do with Pushover but more likely the replacement variable status lagging slightly behind in HS. Try putting a 1sec wait before the notification action in the event and see if you then get the correct status.

Steve

[mcisar]

Hey mcisar, not sure about the locking device, or how its status is configured, but could you experiment with a different kind of notification, such as an email, or speaking through the PC? As long as a locking event ends up sending out a locked notification, and an unlock event send out an unlock notification then all would be well.

DLONG2 I have other types of notifications, and in fact even the pushover "works" insofar as I manually set the message title to "locked" or "unlocked". It's more a curiosity thing at this point as to why out of all of the various status' that get returned by the lock why the pushover plugin sees the substitution for the "RF lock/unlock" ones as reversed from what they should be.

[DLONG2]

Hey mcisar, not sure about the locking device, or how its status is configured, but could you experiment with a different kind of notification, such as an email, or speaking through the PC? As long as a locking event ends up sending out a locked notification, and an unlock event send out an unlock notification then all would be well.

[mcisar]

Am having a little bit of an oddity with a couple of pushover notifications (I'm running HS4 fwiw), hoping someone might have a clue what is happening. Pretty simple stuff, send a notification when (zwave) lock unlocks, send a notification when lock locks. The notifications are working fine, message title is good but the variable substitution in the message body seems to come out reversed from what I'd be expecting.

So in the message body I have this for the "unlocked" event...

<B><font color=red>Unlocked</font> </B><BR> $$DSR:969:<BR> at $TIME on $DATE

And this for the "locked" event...

<B><font color=green>Locked</font> </B><BR> $$DSR:969:<BR> at $TIME on $DATE

If I look in the HS4 logs we see...

[FONT=Calibri][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=black]2021-06-12 8:55:49 PM[/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=black]Legacy-Plugin[/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=black]Z-Wave[/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Calibri][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=black]Device: Lock Front Door Access Control Notification Set to NOTIFICATION for type Access Control Notification, Event: RF Lock Operation[/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT]

Looking at the device in the HS4 console we see the "RF Lock Operation" status as I would expect.

*BUT* the Pushover notification comes in reversed ("RF Unlock Operation" for when locked and "RF Lock Operation" when unlocked).



Just to make sure I wasn't seeing things I tried swapping the status codes within the lock device itself... when I did that the notifications were right in Pushover, but wrong everywhere else.

I should also mention that the various other status messages (Manual Lock/Unlock, Keypad Lock/Unlock) are working properly... it's just the "RF Lock/Unlock" that show up reversed in the pushover notifications. Seems very strange to me as I would have thought a substitution was exactly just that, a substitution. Any thoughts?

[DLONG2]

Love the plugin, not sure how I would manage without it.

As of April 8, Pushover supports custom sounds. Are there any plans of adding this as an option in the plugin?

I haven't looked into custom sounds yet, but I am guessing that although you've uploaded a sound file into the Pushover dashboard, then when building an HS script the sound's file name is not showing as a drop-down option?

I wonder if it might be possible to overwrite sound files on the local storage, using the default file names?

[prk]

Love the plugin, not sure how I would manage without it.

As of April 8, Pushover supports custom sounds. Are there any plans of adding this as an option in the plugin?

[mterry63]

Does anyone have an example of sending multiple lines of text from a file as a pushover message in a script?