Pushover WAY too slow?

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Does anyone (DCJAY, Knolleary?) know why PUSHOVER is so SLOW?

I have my Raspberry Pi 4 setup, and Amazon Polly - Node-Red talks to Polly (exec node) and when one of 2 doors (my office or the front door) opens, she responds immediately, so nothing wrong there. In the same flow I have the Node-Red-contrib-pushover (0.2.0) node sending a pushover alert to my phone (Android 11 Xiaomi Note 10) on WiFi in my house... Unlike Polly it seems to take anything between a reasonable couple of seconds to sound the alarm on the phone - to an utterly useless 15 minutes, and I'm using priority 1 which I assumed meant urgent....

Used to detect a burglar, they could have gone home and started breakfast by the time I get worse case alarns...

Am I missing something?

msg.payload=msg.payload+global.get("handyDate")
msg.priority=1;
msg.sound="tugboat";
return msg;
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H Pete. Sorry but I don’t use it. You may be able to find something in their terms of service, but it wouldn’t surprise me that there are no guarantees for a cheap/free service apart from a best can do.

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Anything you'd recommend that works? when my pals message me on Facebook messenger I get alerts pretty much straight away.. so something from NR sending a PM to Facebook would do I guess ?? I only included your name as I say something about maintainers for the node... :slight_smile:

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'Priority 1' doesn't make the push message travel faster, it just describes how your phone responds to the message.
For example, Priority -1 will not generate any sound or vibration, but will still generate a popup/scrolling notification, whilst Priority 2 will give a loud audible alert, and continue until you've acknowledged it.

I've found it super fast, no delay whatsoever...

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Telegram is almost instantaneous and you can send sounds, pictures, markdown, questions etc.

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Thanks Steve... Telegram (as a non-Telegram user) looks a lot more involved to set up but ye I'll give that a go, thanks.

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node-red-contrib-telegrambot has over 30 examples ready for import...

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and the readme is extensive.

then there is always us guys when you get stuck.

I wont lie, it is a bit more difficult but thats due to capabilities and flexibility - but once you have it going, it is not to difficult and it "just works"

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You are in for a ride once you discover the bot capabilities, they are vast and extremely useful as it allows for 2-way interaction.

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Well I made a start - created a bot - and user... my account is there and when I made the bot I got the key. So I filled both into the NR SENDER node and sent HELLO to that from an inject - nothing - clearly I don;t quite understand this yet.

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Hi Steve, I'd welcome help in getting started. I created a bot - and a user as it requested - and it gave me an API key. I assumed in tthe simplest case I had to fire some text into a SENDER node (from for example an INJECt node). I did that, nothing happened - no errors - just nothing. Should that have worked?

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Did you set the chat id?

Give me 5 mins & I'll post a working demo for you.

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I've setup a generic flow that saves your chat id in flow context (though you don't need to store it there once you have your chat id - you can hard code it in the function node)

The way this demo works: Send /setup to your chat and the bot will intercept the message, store the chat ID then you can press the injects to send a message any time...

Flow...

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detected in garden","payloadType":"str","x":290,"y":240,"wires":[["4bfd3e7453d7b94b"]]},{"id":"4bfd3e7453d7b94b","type":"function","z":"6c2cb5231a8080e7","name":"send message","func":"var content = msg.payload;\n\nmsg.payload = { \n  chatId: msg.chatId, \n  type: 'message', \n  content: msg.payload \n};\n\n\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"initialize":"","finalize":"","libs":[],"x":520,"y":240,"wires":[["ca7e59b37107dcf8"]],"info":"## New message\n\nHello *markdown* formatted messages!'\n\nwith `inline` code\n\n> and quote\n>> nested\n\n\\`\\`\\`\nvar code = \"cool\";\n\\`\\`\\`\n\n| table | data |\n|---|---|\n| 1 | fred |\n| 2 | bob |\n\n_Italic_ **bold** "},{"id":"8bfd14800c0d3708","type":"http request","z":"6c2cb5231a8080e7","name":"","method":"GET","ret":"bin","paytoqs":"ignore","url":"https://picsum.photos/200/300","tls":"","persist":false,"proxy":"","authType":"","x":610,"y":420,"wires":[["f4170678b5812dab"]]},{"id":"f4170678b5812dab","type":"function","z":"6c2cb5231a8080e7","name":"send picture","func":"msg.payload = {\n  content: msg.payload,\n  caption: `A random image`,\n  type : 'photo',\n  chatId: msg.chatId,\n}\nmsg.payload.options = { parse_mode : \"Markdown\" };\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"initialize":"","finalize":"","libs":[],"x":790,"y":420,"wires":[["ca7e59b37107dcf8"]]},{"id":"49fdf0a64632d40d","type":"inject","z":"6c2cb5231a8080e7","name":"send random image from internet","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"chatId","v":"chatId","vt":"flow"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"true","payloadType":"bool","x":370,"y":420,"wires":[["8bfd14800c0d3708"]]},{"id":"4eb6f521ca3b440a","type":"function","z":"6c2cb5231a8080e7","name":"send message","func":"var content = \"Your chatId has been set - messages should now be sent to this chat\"\n\nmsg.payload = { \n  chatId: msg.chatId, \n  type: 'message', \n  content: content\n};\n\n\nreturn msg;","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"initialize":"","finalize":"","libs":[],"x":700,"y":180,"wires":[["ca7e59b37107dcf8","290de46f5c5e8734"]],"info":"## New message\n\nHello *markdown* formatted messages!'\n\nwith `inline` code\n\n> and quote\n>> nested\n\n\\`\\`\\`\nvar code = \"cool\";\n\\`\\`\\`\n\n| table | data |\n|---|---|\n| 1 | fred |\n| 2 | bob |\n\n_Italic_ **bold** "},{"id":"290de46f5c5e8734","type":"debug","z":"6c2cb5231a8080e7","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"payload","targetType":"msg","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":1000,"y":180,"wires":[]},{"id":"fa7a9376.321ce","type":"telegram bot","botname":"my bot","usernames":"","chatids":"","baseapiurl":"","updatemode":"polling","pollinterval":"","usesocks":false,"sockshost":"","socksport":"","socksusername":"","sockspassword":"","bothost":"","botpath":"","localbotport":"","publicbotport":"","privatekey":"","certificate":"","useselfsignedcertificate":false,"sslterminated":false,"verboselogging":false}]

PS: Don't forget your select your BOT in the telegram nodes after importing


Result...

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Hi Pete,

I'd agree with Steve that Telegram has one of the best and easiest (and reliable) bot frameworks. Facebook and WhatsApp are fairly horrid to work with.

Worst delays I get on Telegram are no more than a few seconds and that might even be down to my Node-RED flows since everything passes through MQTT and I use Telegram in polling mode. You can use it in a push mode as well which I imagine is faster but that requires an inbound connection from the Telegram servers which the polling mode doesn't. Most messages get through pretty much instantaneously.

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Nice setup example @Steve-Mcl.
Even I managed to get it working :+1:

Reading the docs, it say's;

  • disable_notification ( bool , optional) – Sends the message silently. Users will receive a notification with no sound.

But I still get notification sounds when I set the msg config as;

msg.payload = { 
  chatId: my chat ID,
  type: 'message', 
  content: msg.payload,
  disable_notification: true
};
return msg;
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Try putting it in the options Paul.

Look in the markdown function for how to set the options.

(Untested)

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Yes, that's it.
Thanks

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Well I'm still not getting this - am I missing out a stage? I mistakenly used "psbot" as I thought I'd created that - with username @petesbot. Turns out it's called @petesbot. So I copied your flow into my node-red where I'd installed node-red-conrtib-telegrambot - put @petesbot into into the bot-name section, went to the botfather (if that sounds like I know what I'm doing, I don't), requested a token, got it (long token - starts with 50 ends with ha) and put that into the token field....

Both SETUP and TELEGRAM SENDER said "connected and hit that first INJECT - nothing new happened.. I then updted TELEGRAM and rebooted my RPI - Now I'm getting "connected" , "polling" and bried "polling error" and over in the debug area... see image below..

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I must be utterly missing the point of Telegram... help. My APP isn't seeing anything from @petesbot

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Did you type /setup in the telegram chat as I described and showed?...

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Prob would make no diff, but I went to install Pushover on a new install and I noticed
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so I'm going to install the 0.1.1 node-red-node-pushover one maintained by Nick and Dave

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I used the 0.1.1 version - thats the one that;s sending messages sometimes instantly - sometimes far to late to be of any use.