Request: Pushover Emergency Priority

Certainly willing to. Someone has to notify me though to make it happen. We have modified the driver somewhat, so we'd really need to see the changes.

@bravenel, we made the change in the custom driver already.

[E] prefix is now used for emergency notifications and requires the following parameters
retry - how often to resend notification until it is acknowledged (in seconds with a minimum of 30 seconds)
expire - timeout for resending notifications if they are never achknowledged (in seconds with a maximum of 10800)

I attempted to limit the preference inputs for retry and expire using “range” but it didn’t seem to limit the options so I just included that info in the description text. Please let me know the correct syntax for range limits if supported.

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I think we have an open issue with range. Not being enforced...

@bravenel
Has the range issue described above been resolved yet?

Does the built-in pushover driver support the [E] prefix for sending emergency priority messages?

Or is it still necessary to use the custom driver for that?

No, it doesn't. Will incorporate this for next release. It is necessary to set the Retry Interval and Auto Expire interval in the Device Preferences.

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Is range being enforced yet?

No, that's still an open issue. It will be addressed, just not in the immediate future.

New release adds this feature. Hub Update 1.1.2

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Just an FYI for everyone using the custom driver.....

The bad news:
The latest firmware 1.1.2 breaks this driver because of changes to httpPost.

The good news:
This custom driver is no longer needed because this same update added [E] emergency support that makes it essentially the same.

Please update all your pushover devices to use the built in driver or you won't get any notifications.

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Can someone please tell me where the "[E]" should be placed to invoke the emergency priority level for Pushover.

Thanks!

At the beginning of the message to be sent.

Also, be sure to check your app settings in the Pushover app for how it handles that.

Looking in the Pushover App, I can see the area for Default and for High Priority but not Emergency. To my mind, [H] in my message would map to High Priority sound; [N] would map to default sound. Does [L} map to NO sound? and lastly, what does [E] map to?
Or am I completely off and missing a key piece...

I am not sure what features the Hubitat built-in Pushover driver currently supports. However, if you need some additional features, please take a look at my community version of the same driver.

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The built in driver supports 4 priorities:

L - Low (-1)
N - Normal (0)
H - High (1)
E - Emergency (2)

These are documented in the Pushover API.

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Emergency is not available as the default message priority in the builtin driver, but it is in the community driver written by @ogiewon

@bravenel Is this by design?

This code hasn't been looked at in a long time. I will look into it.

This feature has been added to the upcoming 2.3.1 release, now in beta.

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Thanks