Two hubs a c-8 and c-7. All worked perfectly forever. Suddenly at the beginning of april notifications stopped working. Now the app and my.hubitat.com shows the hubs offline. I have deregistered/reregistered, refreshed entitlements, no joy. There have been a few firmware updates since the change in an attempt to fix, still no joy. The login matches the admin user. I can log into the web using the webui, and manage them, but notifications don't work at all now. I have even redone the virtual mobile app device (what a PITA to remove it from everything to delete and replace it), but no change. Testing notification from the device in the webui itself doesn't work.
Any pointers?
Kevin
Platform Version
2.4.4.156
Hardware Version
C-8
Platform Version
2.4.4.155
MAC Address
Hardware Version
C-7
Sounds like the hubs can no longer get to the internet. Might go to Settings|Network Setup|Network Test and hit Ping to start investigating what your hub can actually see.
Yeah, I don't have any DNS settings that are special, its a blank field, and I have the fallback turned off. The devices do have DHCP (static binding by mac on the DHCP server), and can ping the internet (1.1.1.1, as well as www.google.com). I do have the Disable Hubitat Cloud ticked. This has always been ticked however.
Example from "Network Test"
PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=29.6 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=28.8 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=31.9 ms
--- 1.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 28.801/30.102/31.896/1.310 ms
PING www.google.com(2001:4860:4827:7700:: (2001:4860:4827:7700::)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:4860:4827:7700:: (2001:4860:4827:7700::): icmp_seq=1 ttl=115 time=31.9 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4860:4827:7700:: (2001:4860:4827:7700::): icmp_seq=2 ttl=115 time=26.7 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4860:4827:7700:: (2001:4860:4827:7700::): icmp_seq=3 ttl=115 time=34.8 ms
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.724/31.140/34.820/3.345 ms
Assuming you mean notifications to a mobile phone, the cloud has to be involved at some point.
If you wanted the notification to take a more indirect route, the hub could be configured to send notifications to a device on the LAN that then calls out to the cloud (not Hubitat’s cloud, though).
I’m not sure it’s fair to say there’s anything of ours stored in the cloud when Hubitat’s cloud services are enabled, other than what we individually opt into, like cloud or hub migration backups.
You didn't say what kind of notificationsIf you are trying to use w/out cloud. Obviously, if you want notifications while away from home, some sort of cloud involvement is a must (short of your hub turning on fire to send smoke signals).
Inside your home, if you're using Android there may be some local notification options using Tasker and various Tasker plug-ins. No idea about iOS (Tasker is Android only).
You could use nightlights and other LED-based notifications (e.g., Third Reality Nightlight, Shelly Gen 4 US plug both have a built in controllable LED - can change colors/brightness, flash, etc.). Those and other options discussed here.
There is also a cool notification app developed by a community dev who has been deaf from birth, based on flashing lights, variable patterns, etc., could be of use to you.
For local voice notifications (and music w/at least one of them) there are a couple of options being worked on that have surfaced lately...they do require more work than existing out of the box cloud options:
Yeah, Im IOS, and the notification popping up when someone opens a garage door or the front door is something I want to know while I am away. Sadly...the second I turn on cloud...back to the 10s of thousands of DNS requests (consisting of between 14% to 40% of ALL DNS queries on my network), the reason I turned it off.
These are useless queries and man does it annoy the hell out of me.
