Why use pushover?

[ogiewon]

@kflick

There's actually even a higher priority mode that pushover uses that lets you force repeat alarms until the alarm is explicitly acknowledged. It doesn't look like Hubitat's pushover driver lists that as an option

The built-in Pushover driver does support Emergency repeating notifications...

If you users want even more functionality, they can use my Pushover driver (which was the original baseline for the now included built-in driver.) It has since been enhanced by the community to support most of the Pushover API features.

Pushover Notifications Driver [Slightly Enhanced]

The Pushover Driver is now included as part of the Hubitat Firmware. The Hubitat team included a version of the driver below to simplify the process for setting this up. You do NOT need to add the custom Pushover Driver below. Just be sure your Hubitat hub's firmware is up to date. UPDATE: IF you want to use some of the enhanced features (since September 2020) of the Pushover driver described below, you will need to use my community driver from my GitHub repository below. My wife really li…