How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by ikidd@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I currently do a lot of my monitoring via MQTT for my solar system etc. I currently use MQTT Alert and set up my alerts to ring my phone at top volume until silenced. But I have missed more than one alert because I don't think the background agent is always active and it doesn't necessarily start when I reboot the phone. While the application does "monitor" the MQTT connection, it only makes a short sound if it drops, with no followup until you notice that there was a notification and go back into it to figure out why the connection is down.

Does anyone have foolproof way of getting things like security alerts that will always trigger on the phone, without having to check the phone 10 times a day to be sure the application is on and the connection is active?

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[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

The latency on those alerts is a problem.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 11 points 2 years ago

Gotta remember to enable Quantum Entanglement... Takes a lot more power, but solves the problem.

[-] ashley@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

i've heard the accuracy is off with those.. but cmon 50% still means it's right half the time

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

And a lot more pre-planning.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I hear the API development for alpha centauri is pretty far behind its peer.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

So we should all be using Beta Centauri?

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