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What do you use for alerting?
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I have signal-cli set up on my home assistant and use that for notifications from home.assistant as well as uptime kuma, etc.
This is a neat idea. Thanks.
I host a matrix chat server with signal bridge and hit the matrix API to send messages. Basically the same thing but more hops. I might set that up too.
I'm using matrix directly for server notifications. I didn't realize it could integrate with signal. What's the use case there, either for server notifications or in general?
That's quite a question.... I have 2 phones with different numbers.
My main phone with the number I give everyone to text/call me lives at home plugged in 100% of the time. SMS/MMS are bridged into self hosted Matrix. Signal, WhatsApp are also installed and bridged into matrix. Calls are forwared to a 3rd number with VoIP.ms.
The phone I keep on me has data only. I can still call and send SMS from the 2nd number but it's expensive. I use a matrix chat app to send SMS/MMS/Signal/WhatsApp messages. I use a VoIP app for calls.
I have signal on my data only phone as a just in case to message/call my wife if things are down. I also thought I'd be a good idea to put notifications in signal as that's my backup chat app.
ETA: the reason I do this is so I can call, text, or messages from any device that has internet. I travel outside of Canada I just need a data sim or WiFi and I can call/text as normal using my normal cell number. I also hate using cellphones. If I'm at work and need to reply to an SMS, I have a keyboard and I want to use that, not some small screen.