Send Pushover notifications with pictures and hyperlinks
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Sybertiger
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I had tried that earlier today based on your prior comment and just updated BI to the latest and tried again. The result is that it plays video from cam #3 (garage from a couple of weeks ago) instead of cam #2 (driveway).
For debugging purposes you can try capturing the actual API command string being sent as suggested in this post.
ipcamtalk.com
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Need help setting up BI5 text alerts.
Yes BI has a log file. Go to the Blue Iris Status. You probably have to check the log to file box to get more details and then pull up the .txt files.
Sybertiger
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Appreciate the help, I'll check it out. BTW, interestingly enough, after I updated BI from 5.5.7.4 to 5.5.7.5 the issue with the yellow warning on the mobile phone went away (without the ampersand). Now, just need to resolve the red warning on the tablet.
I'm curious to see what you get when you try capturing the API command with an without the ampersand.
I'm trying to to this myself right now.
I'm trying to to this myself right now.
hmm... &ALERT_DB is already expanding to string prefixed with @.
So doing what I suggested may result in two @@.
So doing what I suggested may result in two @@.
Sybertiger
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This error message suggests it's a Chrome browser issue on my Samsung Android tablet. But what blows my mind is that it works fine with one camera but not the other. Not sure what other browser UI3 plays nicely with so I guess I'll have to play. The error does suggest it's an encoder/decoder issue. Both cams are set for H.265....lemme try H.264. My conclusion is this isn't anything related to Pushover, Blue Iris, etc. so I'll quit spamming this thread.
UPDATE 05/20/2022: It was clearly related to the Chrome android browser on my tablet as I installed the Opera browser and it worked fine...so I went back and cleared the cache/cookies on the Chrome browser and now it works. What was odd is this issue only seemed to be tied to my three 4MP cams, all 2MP cams didn't have this issue.
UPDATE 05/20/2022: It was clearly related to the Chrome android browser on my tablet as I installed the Opera browser and it worked fine...so I went back and cleared the cache/cookies on the Chrome browser and now it works. What was odd is this issue only seemed to be tied to my three 4MP cams, all 2MP cams didn't have this issue.
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Hmm..I'm not sure that the "new format" date/timestamp UI3 link (from Pushover) implementation is 100% correct yet, despite early results that seemed to indicate success. I am still having random failures to resolve links that were from the evening of Wednesday May 18th, which was post-upgrade to this new format introduced in 5.5.7.4. Maybe something else changed again in the upgrade to 5.5.7.5 yesterday (May 19). Hopefully this will settle out in time, and these are just some early-adopter glitches. Anyone else seeing similar?
Sybertiger
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Is there a tag or label that can be included in the Pushover parameter string to show icons
such as the "car" or the "person" instead of or in addition to the word "car" or "person" with the percentage (&MEMO)? It would probably stand out a little bit more if the icons appeared.
I'd say No. The API does not appear to support the delivery of images in addition to the alert image attachment.Is there a tag or label that can be included in the Pushover parameter string to show iconssuch as the "car" or the "person" instead of or in addition to the word "car" or "person" with the percentage (&MEMO)?
Excerpts from the API
Attachment files must be directly sent to our API with your other message parameters and cannot be included as a URL or other parameter that would instruct our servers or the device clients to download the file. This is done for efficiency and for the privacy of our users to avoid making requests to non-Pushover URLs without their knowledge.
Each message may only include one attachment...
sebastiantombs
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Have a look at post #1 of this thread. PushOver "runs a script" which you can copy and paste from the first few pages of the thread. You will need to add your PushOver credentials, but you don't need to write a script.
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See your other thread...pushover simply provides an email address and is not using smtp.
And to be clear, this thread is only if you want to use the API. You can use pushover as an email as well. I would suggest starting there to get alerts and then plau with this.
Posting over here to see if anyone else has seen this problem. Original message I started is Pushover and Gmail on two different Blue Iris machines, one stopped working!
Pushover messages stopped for me on one of my two machines (gmail messages as well):
Trouble shooting Pushover doing the following:
Using a DOS prompt and trying the curl command for pushover has a problem once I add:
-F "attachment=@D:\BlueIris\Alerts\&ALERT_PATH"
so----here is the whole command that I ran from a batch file
c:\windows\system32\curl.exe ^
-s ^
--form-string "token=<<token>>" ^
--form-string "user=<<user>>" ^
--form-string "message=<b>&CAM</b> &MEMO <a href='&WAN/alerts/&ALERT_DB?fulljpeg'>Hi-Res</a> <a href='&WAN/ui3.htm?rec=&ALERT_DB'>UI3</a>" ^
--form-string "html=1" ^
--form-string "device=Phone1,Phone2" ^
--form-string "sound=bike" ^
-F "attachment=@D:\BlueIris\Alerts\Front1.20220313_180000.1949014.3.10055.9990.jpg" ^
--verbose
So, I'm getting the messages now as long as I don't try to send the image.
Pushover messages stopped for me on one of my two machines (gmail messages as well):
Trouble shooting Pushover doing the following:
Using a DOS prompt and trying the curl command for pushover has a problem once I add:
-F "attachment=@D:\BlueIris\Alerts\&ALERT_PATH"
- schannel: Curl_read_plain returned CURLE_RECV_ERROR
- Closing connection 0
- schannel: shutting down SSL/TLS connection with api.pushover.net port 443
- Send failure: Connection was reset
- schannel: failed to send close msg: Failed sending data to the peer (bytes written: -1)
so----here is the whole command that I ran from a batch file
c:\windows\system32\curl.exe ^
-s ^
--form-string "token=<<token>>" ^
--form-string "user=<<user>>" ^
--form-string "message=<b>&CAM</b> &MEMO <a href='&WAN/alerts/&ALERT_DB?fulljpeg'>Hi-Res</a> <a href='&WAN/ui3.htm?rec=&ALERT_DB'>UI3</a>" ^
--form-string "html=1" ^
--form-string "device=Phone1,Phone2" ^
--form-string "sound=bike" ^
-F "attachment=@D:\BlueIris\Alerts\Front1.20220313_180000.1949014.3.10055.9990.jpg" ^
--verbose
So, I'm getting the messages now as long as I don't try to send the image.
If the attachment file exists, then I’d suggest trying the trick in the following post to capture the actual API command being sent. Perhaps this will reveal the syntax error causing the notification To fail.
ipcamtalk.com
Send Pushover notifications with pictures and hyperlinks
My bad, just edited my suggestion to @ not &
I don't believe it to be a syntax issue as that same exact command (except for the paths) is running on another machine. This one machine just stopped sending gmail messages and pushover messages for some reason I haven't been able to figure out yet. So to debug the pushover part of the problem I pulled the command out of BI and tried it in the command line one piece at a time until it was the attachment part that caused an error.
I'll take a look at the debug from BI when time permits. Thanks.
I'll take a look at the debug from BI when time permits. Thanks.
If the attachment file exists, then I’d suggest trying the trick in the following post to capture the actual API command being sent. Perhaps this will reveal the syntax error causing the notification To fail.
Send Pushover notifications with pictures and hyperlinks
My bad, just edited my suggestion to @ not &
This is showing:
Filename sent from BI on the command:
D:\BlueIris\Alerts\Front1.20220609_170004.309516.3-1.jpg
The file doesn't actually exist, how does that happen?