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# Pushsafer Binding

The Pushsafer binding allows you to notify mobile devices of a message using the Pushsafer API (opens new window). To get started you first need to register (a free process) to get a Private Key. Initially you have to register a device with one of the client apps (opens new window), to get a device id.

# Supported Things

There is only one Thing available - the pushsafer-account. You are able to create multiple instances of this Thing to broadcast to different devices or groups with push-notification content and setting.

# Thing Configuration

Configuration Parameter Type Description
apikey text Your private-key to access the Pushsafer Message API (opens new window). mandatory
user text Your username or email address to validate against the Pushsafer Message API. mandatory
device text Your device or group id to which device(s) you want to push notifications. mandatory
title text The default title of a message (default: "openHAB").
format text The default format ("none", "HTML" or "monospace") of a message (default: none).
sound text The default notification sound on target device (default: 1) (see supported notification sounds (opens new window)).
vibration text How often the device should vibrate. empty=device default or a number 1-3.
icon text The default notification icon on target device (default: 1) (see supported notification icons (opens new window)).
color text The color (hexadecimal) of notification icon (e.g. #FF0000).
url text URL or URL Scheme (opens new window) send with notification.
urlTitle text Title of URL.
retry integer The retry parameter specifies how often (in seconds) the Pushsafer servers will send the same notification to the user (default: 300). advanced
expire integer The expire parameter specifies how long (in seconds) your notification will continue to be retried (default: 3600). advanced
confirm integer Integer 10-10800 (10s steps) Time in seconds after which a message should be sent again before it is confirmed. (default: 0). advanced
time2live integer Time in minutes, after a message automatically gets purged (default: 0). advanced
answer integer 1 = enables reply to push notifications (default: 0). advanced

The retry and expire parameters are only used for emergency-priority notifications.

# Channels

Currently the binding does not support any Channels.

# Thing Actions

All actions return a Boolean value to indicate if the message was sent successfully or not. The parameter message is mandatory, the title parameter defaults to whatever value you defined in the title related configuration parameter.

  • sendPushsaferMessage(String message, @Nullable String title) - This method is used to send a plain text message.

  • sendPushsaferHtmlMessage(String message, @Nullable String title) - This method is used to send a HTML message.

  • sendPushsaferMonospaceMessage(String message, @Nullable String title) - This method is used to send a monospace message.

  • sendPushsaferAttachmentMessage(String message, @Nullable String title, String attachment, @Nullable String contentType, @Nullable String authentication) - This method is used to send a message with an image attachment. It takes a local path or URL to the image attachment (parameter attachment mandatory), an optional contentType to define the content-type of the attachment (default: "jpeg", possible values: "jpeg", "png", "gif") and an optional authentication for the given URL to define the credentials to authenticate a user if needed (default: "", example: "user:password").

  • sendPushsaferURLMessage(String message, @Nullable String title, String url, @Nullable String urlTitle) - This method is used to send a message with an URL. A supplementary url to show with the message and a urlTitle for the URL, otherwise just the URL is shown.

  • sendPushsaferPriorityMessage(String message, @Nullable String title, @Nullable Integer priority) - This method is used to send a priority message. Parameter priority is the priority (-2, -1, 0, 1, 2) to be used (default: 2).

# Example

demo.rules

```java
val actions = getActions("pushsafer", "pushsafer:pushsafer-account:account")
// send message with attachment
actions.sendPushsaferAttachmentMessage("Hello World!", "openHAB", "/path/to/my-local-image.png", "png", null)
actions.sendPushsaferAttachmentMessage("Hello World!", "openHAB", "https://www.openhab.org/openhab-logo-square.png", "png", "user:password")
actions.sendPushsaferAttachmentMessage("Hello World!", "openHAB", "data:[<media type>][;base64],<data>", null, null)
// in case you want to send the content of an Image Item (RawType)
actions.sendPushsaferAttachmentMessage("Hello World!", "openHAB", myImageItem.state.toFullString, null, null)
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