iPhone Notifications via Pushover.net

[leejoramo]

I am want to received notifications on my iPhone of activity on my Discourse forum.

I have used pushover.net to create notifications for other services that I run. Pushover has a very simple API to trigger notifications and send the notifications to their iOS, Android and to desktop environments.

Has anyone done anything like this with Discourse?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Not as far as I know, but I want to get the infrastructure for publishing notifications in some time this year.

[featheredtoast (Jeff Wong)]

I recently published a plugin that does exactly this:

Pushover notifications

Plugin for integrating Pushover notifications. https://github.com/featheredtoast/discourse-pushover-notifications This allows notifications to be sent over Pushover, which grants push-notification support for iOS, through the 3rd party app. Configuration Once installed, you will need an Application API token. Create a New Application and fill out the form. After you created the application, copy the resulting API token to the Discourse admin plugin pages, and enable the plguin. All users w…