Send Pushover notifications with pictures and hyperlinks

Well this is weird, BI stopped sending pushover alert today for some reason. Still within my 10,000 free limit. A test directly from the pushover.net website works. Any clue where the issue may be? No changes made to BI or the computer in over a year. I've been using pushover for alert successfully for 3 years.

My pushover app on the phone updated and changed the sizes of the images, maybe the update on the phone did something?
 
It appears that the attachment size limit has been increased to 5 MB (from 2.5MB as noted in post #1) ...
I totally missed this change.

per the current Pushover: API

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I'll update post #1.
 
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My pushover app on the phone updated and changed the sizes of the images, maybe the update on the phone did something?
The Pushover Android app version 4.2.7 made a change to not 'stretch' small images to full screen width. It also broke auto-playing of GIF attachments (a major impact on the usefulness of my bi_gif_tool.ps1 script).

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I emailed the developer and he never responded.

But just today I see the following 4.2.8 update in the Play Store.

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I'm starting to test it now.
 
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My pushover app on the phone updated and changed the sizes of the images, maybe the update on the phone did something?
Ya know, a few days ago I noticed that my portrait oriented images got bigger in the pushover alerts but my landscape images stayed the same. However, pushover alerts kept getting pushed and just stopped today. On my girlfriend's phone they stopped at the same time as mine.
 
Ya know, a few days ago I noticed that my portrait oriented images got bigger in the pushover alerts but my landscape images stayed the same. However, pushover alerts kept getting pushed and just stopped today. On my girlfriend's phone they stopped at the same time as mine.
The API page has the following info... perhaps you can try executing the curl command in cmd.exe and investigate the response.

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If you get the 429 status code, it might mean that the service THINKS you've exceeded your 10,000 message limit this month.
 
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Regarding the 4.2.8 update of the Pushover Android app...

I'm pleased to report that this update has restored the former handling of GIF attachments:
  1. GIFs now play automatically, and
  2. Small GIFs are automatically 'stretched' to the width of the app window.
I was not looking forward to taking a performance hit by having to increase the size of GIF's JPG images, and consequently increasing the size of the GIF file.
 
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The API page has the following info... perhaps you can try executing the curl command in cmd.exe and investigate the response.

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If you get the 429 status code, it might mean that the service THINKS you've exceeded your 10,000 message limit this month.
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I have the same exact setup on my parents' BI machine. I have it set up to send me their pushover alerts to my phone too. I see that I'm still getting their pushover alerts to my phone today. But, pushover alerts from my own BI machine are not coming through today. No changes have been made since yesterday when it was sending me alerts just fine.
 
I have the same exact setup on my parents' BI machine. I have it set up to send me their pushover alerts to my phone too. I see that I'm still getting their pushover alerts to my phone today. But, pushover alerts from my own BI machine are not coming through today. No changes have been made since yesterday when it was sending me alerts just fine.

Did you try the ole reboot the machine?
 
I have the same exact setup on my parents' BI machine. I have it set up to send me their pushover alerts to my phone too. I see that I'm still getting their pushover alerts to my phone today. But, pushover alerts from my own BI machine are not coming through today. No changes have been made since yesterday when it was sending me alerts just fine.
If Wittaj's reboot suggestion doesn't solve it, then do give the cmd.exe execution a try - with argument --verbose.

See post #1 section "Testing using the Windows Command Prompt".
 
And check the Notification settings for the Pushover app on your devices. Perhaps a category has been inadvertently created or disabled in the 'Notification categories' section.
 
And check the Notification settings for the Pushover app on your devices. Perhaps a category has been inadvertently created or disabled in the 'Notification categories' section.
That would not explain why pushover messages from parents systems comes in just fine. Also, would not explain why girlfriend's phone stop receiving them at the same time as me.

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And then there's always this 'Do not disturb' icon...
but that would also silence your parents notifications.

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You can see push messsages coming in from Helios (parents) but on Argus (mine) looks like the last one was from two days ago. Also, note that manual pushover test from pushover.net works fine.
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If Wittaj's reboot suggestion doesn't solve it, then do give the cmd.exe execution a try - with argument --verbose.

See post #1 section "Testing using the Windows Command Prompt".
I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing with this...LOL!

So far it doesn't return anything with --verbose.

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That would not explain why pushover messages from parents systems comes in just fine. Also, would not explain why girlfriend's phone stop receiving them at the same time as me.
Understood. I'm talking about this screen.

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I've never understood how all of these are created - it it's the service or the app.
 
You must replace the macros with values. ESPECIALLY &ALERT_PATH, which must point to an existing JPG file in the Alerts folder.
I figured....LOL. I was wondering how the command shell would not what those variable are set to. Surprised the verbose mode didn't complain and tell me it doesn't know what those are set to.