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Pushover

Pushover is a service for sending real-time notifications to your Android, iPhone, iPad, and Desktop devices.

Configuration

Configure Pushover to send push notifications to your devices.

🔑API Token

Your Pushover application API token. Create one at pushover.net/apps/build.

Each application you create on Pushover gets a unique API token that identifies it when sending notifications.

👤User Key

Your Pushover user or group key. Find this on your Pushover dashboard.

  • User Key: Sends notifications to all your registered devices
  • Group Key: Sends notifications to a group of users (useful for team notifications)

📱Devices

Optionally specify device names to send notifications to specific devices only. Leave empty to send to all devices registered with your Pushover account.

Device names can be found in your Pushover app settings on each device.

🔥Priority

The priority level for notifications:

  • Lowest (-2): No notification/alert will be generated
  • Low (-1): Quiet notification, no sound or vibration but shown in notification list
  • Normal (0): Default priority with standard sound and vibration
  • High (1): Bypasses user's quiet hours settings
  • Emergency (2): Requires acknowledgment, will repeat notification until acknowledged

Reference: Pushover Message Priority

🔄Retry

Only applicable for Emergency priority notifications.

How often (in seconds) the notification will be retried until acknowledged. The minimum value is 30 seconds.

For example, setting this to 60 means the notification will be resent every 60 seconds until the user acknowledges it.

Expire

Only applicable for Emergency priority notifications.

How long (in seconds) the notification will continue to be retried. The maximum value is 10800 seconds (3 hours).

After this time, if the notification hasn't been acknowledged, Pushover will stop retrying.

🔊Sound

The notification sound to play. Choose from built-in sounds or select "Custom" to use a custom sound you've uploaded to Pushover.

Built-in sounds include: pushover, bike, bugle, cashregister, classical, cosmic, falling, gamelan, incoming, intermission, magic, mechanical, pianobar, siren, spacealarm, tugboat, alien, climb, persistent, echo, updown, vibrate, none.

Reference: Pushover Sounds

🏷️Tags

Tags for receipt tracking and batch cancellation of emergency notifications.

Tags are useful when you want to cancel pending emergency notifications programmatically.