Create a self-hosted instance of NTFY

[dave1904]

btw do you have any issues with iOS devices? My buddy gets a message in Safari “Notifications not supported in this browser”, without any possiblity to activate them. He tries it with the native ntfy iOS app now.

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 Can you replicate this issue on a desktop PC using the NTFY web gui to subscribe? Interested to see if this affects desktop too - if it doesn’t, you may have an icon missing. I’ve seen this before.

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 Yes, the PWA side of things under iOS devices has always been questionable.

[dave1904]

@phenomlab said in Create a self-hosted instance of NTFY:

@dave1904 Yes, the PWA side of things under iOS devices has always been questionable.

In the ntfy docs I’ve read that to get the iOS ntfy app to work you have to define
upstream-base-url: "https://ntfy.sh". Did you set this in your config?

[dave1904]

@phenomlab The Icon ist definitely there. Will do a full rebuild later to see if that has an effect.

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 No, you only need that if you are using a proxy from recollection (which of course, you aren’t for upstream internet access) - I only use

base-url: "https://<your domain fqdn>"

[dave1904]

@phenomlab said in Create a self-hosted instance of NTFY:

@dave1904 No, you only need that if you are using a proxy from recollection (which of course, you aren’t for upstream internet access) - I only use

base-url: "https://<your domain fqdn>"

If upstream-base-url is not set, notifications will still eventually get to your device, but delivery can take hours, depending on the state of the phone. If you are using your phone, it shouldn’t take more than 20-30 minutes though.

As I don’t have an iOS device I cannot test it. Will have to observe this. Thanks!

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 Interesting! I might actually add that, but message delivery for me is almost instant.

[dave1904]

Hmm. For me this is all still working weird. Right now I had to go to ntfy.mydomain.com to receive a notification that was sent before.

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 From the desktop PC or your phone?

[dave1904]

@phenomlab From my phone. Maybe better to use the native app?

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 Yes, always

[dave1904]

Yes, working flawlessly with the native app including my icon.

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 Good to hear!

[dave1904]

One more question, how can I restart the ntfy server? I’ve edited the config and want to restart it but I only find the ntfy serve command and it’s already serving of course.

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 you should be able to use

sudo service ntfy stop
sudo service ntfy start

Or simpler

sudo service ntfy restart

[dave1904]

Thanks, I already tried that but when I use

sudo service ntfy stop

and then

ntfy serve

it still says

2023/10/03 18:26:23 INFO Listening on 127.0.0.1:2586[http], ntfy 2.7.0, log level is INFO (tag=startup)
2023/10/03 18:26:23 FATAL listen tcp 127.0.0.1:2586: bind: address already in use (exit_code=1)
listen tcp 127.0.0.1:2586: bind: address already in use

I’m confused, it should stop serving right?

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 not if you have another window running where ntfy serve is still running? That message would indicate you have it running somewhere already.

[dave1904]

Yes, that’s the problem of Droplet Web Console… But I should be able to stop the process?

[phenomlab]

@dave1904 what’s the output of

ps aux | grep ntfy