I'm somewhat confused as to how Home Assistant's mobile notifications are supposed to work. Looking at the link below it seems to be a huge amount of tricky stuff to set up. Notifications work fine when my phone are on the same network, and they seem to work fine too when I turn off wifi on my phone. The latter case should really not work by default? I haven't tested yet while I'm physically away from home.
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ios-external-notifications-not-working/585269
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@chakie I never got that to a working state
but then my hokeassistant isn't accesible from outside my lan anyway - so I didn't try hard
I just use xmpp-notifications (and sometimes synology chat)
those work great
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@drazraeltod We have a VPN for accessing our home network and HA works through it.
I’d be happy to pay a bit to have something reliably send push notifications to my phone. Seems weird that HA doesn’t have something there. Assuming the notifications don’t work, of course. Not entirely sure yet as I have seen them work while I was away and also seen them not work.
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@chakie @drazraeltod I have my ha on IPv6 at home, and I get an IPv6 address on mobile. Notifications work outside of home.
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@harald @drazraeltod Is that working ok due to IPv6?
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@chakie @drazraeltod probably, since I have publicly accesible addresses in my home network and my phone can contact my HA instance from anywhere. Whats puzzling me is that I think I get notifications even on ipv4.
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@harald @drazraeltod I haven't been able to figure out how it's supposed to work. :) Our HA is behind NAT and only accessible from the outside via a VPN which I rarely use. Still I do seem to get some (but not all, I think) notifications sent by my HA test automations. I test with simple "at time X send notification" which are simple to set up and always fire.
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@chakie I will have to test this as well. I too have the suspicion they arrive in my phone by mysterious ways.
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@harald Having things like these be mysterious is never good.
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@chakie "Notifications to the HA app are sent through the Firebase Cloud Messaging Service from Google. That's why you receive them even though you are not connected to your local network. "
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@harald Oh, ok. I assumed there had to be something external that actually sent the notifications on behalf of HA. Where did you find this information?
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@chakie on the internet 😄
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@harald Now who would have thunk. :)
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