KDEOct 19, 2024

KUnifiedPush: KDE's efficient way of delivering notifications to your apps

KUnifiedPush, KDE's client library for the UnifiedPush protocol, has reached version 1.0.0. KUnifiedPush provides a way to deliver notifications instantly to multiple apps on your devices even if the apps are not running.

Ideal for social media, weather and instant messaging apps, it will also contribute to improving the battery life on your mobile devices.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/10/19/kunifiedpush-1.0.0-is-out/

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KUnifiedPush 1.0.0 is out!

KUnifiedPush provides push notifications for KDE applications. Push notifications are a mechanism to support applications that occasionally need to receive some kind of information from their server-side part, and where receiving in a timely manner matters. Chat applications or weather and emergency alerts would be examples for that. More technical details about KUnifiedPush are available on Volker's introduction post about KUnifiedPush.

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Show threadthe tower fairyOct 19, 2024
@kde @[email protected] I'm sorry to see you've gone the "14 + 1 standards" XKCD way. Is there any reason why?
Show threadπ•½π–šπ–†π–Žπ–‰π–π–—π–Žπ–Œπ–Oct 19, 2024

It turns out, in this case it isn’t. This is about a KDE library (service?) that uses Unified Push, which is a standard implemented by servers like ntfy, Nextpush, and Gotify. If you use any f-droid apps, you’re probably already using Unified Push. Home Assistant uses it for mobile notifications, too.

It is, probably, the third biggest notification protocol after Google’s and Apple’s, only it doesn’t route through their servers or provide them with more of your data to harvest and sell.

Unified Push is a good thing. It looks like KDE just makes it accessible to KDE application developers through the KDE libraries.

Show threadtimbuck2themoonOct 19, 2024
Home assistant uses it for notifications now? I’ve got the f droid version but don’t see that.
Show threadπ•½π–šπ–†π–Žπ–‰π–π–—π–Žπ–Œπ–Oct 20, 2024

I meant the server can deliver notifications via ntfy:

docs.ntfy.sh/examples/#home-assistant

Yeah, I don’t think the mobile app communicates with the server over anything but the web API.

Examples - ntfy

Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

Show threadtimbuck2themoon
Oh OK. Yes I’ve had this going for a while. If Anyone wants some configs I’ll paste them.
Oct 20, 2024 at 10:55pmWeb