How do your flows interact with user or cause phone alarm in the night?

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I have some flows that can be trigged via Telegram Bot commands.
The problem is that if I wish an alarm, let's say a water sensor, - then Telegram is quiet at night, I see no option to force an alert sound.

How can I solve it?
I am also open to integrating it with google Assistant, but I am afraid that won't solve the alarm issue.

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Is the reason that you have told your phone to be silent during the night?

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...to avoid notification sounds from apps and mail.
Android does provide API for alarms, that are not silenced during the period. I thought something could use it when instructed to. (so that certain notifications were sent with higher priority)

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OK, so perhaps this would need an app on the phone that can generate the alarm. I don't know if there is one.

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I don't know Android super well but I set up Home Assistant and Node-RED on a Raspberry Pi to send critical alerts to my iOS devices that have the Home Assistant app installed. Which allows for a persistent banner notification and includes audio alerts even when silenced. My reasoning was similar as I was working on an automated indoor gardening project that involved a water reservoir and pump. I wanted a foolproof method of receiving alerts/notifications that doesn't require additional non-locally hosted services.

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If you push your alerts using Pushover, it has different alert levels, and level 1 bypasses the phones quiet hours.

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This Pushover thing looks nice. And for a $5 one-time payment it get's really intersting.
Currently I use Signal for all communication between Node-red and Mobile devices, but it is like @AndKe said; quiet in the night.

Which contrib node would you recommend for a test?

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I use node-red-node-pushover which is pretty good.

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@HaroldPetersInskipp Home assistant is interesting - which Nodered node are you using for it?
@Paul-Reed - Pushover is absolutely a nice option too , I'll start with that - I see some use for the option to change sound and attachments too.

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@AndKe I'm using node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket version 0.49.1

I run my HA server on a Pi 4 as Home Assistant Core: Manual installation using Python virtual environment, but I would recommend one of the more traditional install methods.

This solution lets me get notifications regardless of if I am on my home network with my Mobile device or not. I can get banner and audio alerts that are very customizable with zero additional subscription services and this keeps my information safe and locally managed.

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Thank you both! I am using Pushover now, and will try Home Assistant later