Gotify/server: A simple server for sending and receiving messages in real-time

I&#x27;ve been using Gotify for years for various notification use cases, and it&#x27;s awesome. Specifically for the last 2+ years, I&#x27;ve been using it so that I can have Zulip notifications on Android, since the app requires Google services (FCM) for notifications, which I don&#x27;t have on my phone.<p>Here&#x27;s the thing I banged together to pipe Zulip events into notifications. There are a bunch of nice things I could add to it, but I haven&#x27;t had enough need to do so yet.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cyphase&#x2F;zulip-to-gotify&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cyphase&#x2F;zulip-to-gotify&#x2F;</a>

You can also use the unifiedpush version (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unifiedpush.org&#x2F;users&#x2F;distributors&#x2F;gotify&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;unifiedpush.org&#x2F;users&#x2F;distributors&#x2F;gotify&#x2F;</a>) of gotify with your own server as a UP distributor for other apps.

I stood one of these up last year to play around with it. It works flawlessly but the Android app destroyed my battery life. If that has gotten better, it&#x27;s probably a fantastic solution for DIY real-time push.

Wait, so setting this up will give me a REST endpoint where I can send data to, which then gets pushed to my Android phone? So that I can ship any kind of actions&#x2F;events to my mobile? That&#x27;s awesome!<p>I&#x27;ve wanted something like this for quite a while but instead I&#x27;ve been mainly using webhooks&#x2F;bots to Slack&#x2F;Matrix&#x2F;Mattermost for this.

I&#x27;m a huge fan of gotify. I use it to receive notifications when my backup system does its job, activity from my bittorrent client, alerts from fail2ban, and I&#x27;m sure a bunch of other things I&#x27;m forgetting about. Since it uses simple webhooks, so long as you can execute curl you can use it to push notifications out. So handy!

I wish there was an equivalent of this for iOS. I know - paid ecosystem,etc. But, I wish it existed.

How do I help fund an iOS app?

Using this in combination with home IP cameras to send me alerts. Works great!