PushTV - Notifications on Andr

Andreas Huth, EU

In-app purchases

About this app

PushTV is the ideal complement to your pushover.net service. Receive messages of your home automation, doorbell, server monitoring or the telephone system now conveniently in front of your TV. With the help of IFTTT, the application possibilities are nearly limitless, whether email signaling, a new Twitter entry, Facebook, etc. PushTV is available as app for Android TV and Fire TV.

Highlights

The messages appear in the right corner of the screen
HTML formatting and priorities in pushover messages are supported
The sender application logo is displayed
An acoustic announcement will be made
Easily send messages from all common programming languages and via e-mail
IFTTT integration
Install once and you're done

Usage

Ideal for home automation (such as OpenHUB, FHEM, ...), Alarm messages, monitoring systems, telephone call messages etc.

Examples in the programming languages API Libraries
C, C#/.NET, Go, Haskell, Java, Lua, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, VBA, Unix command line

Open beta test

The app is currently in beta testing.

Per in-app purchase for only € 2.39 in the Google Play Store or Amazon Appstore will permanently use the app for the unlimited Receiving messages on the Android TV or the Amazon Fire TV unlocked. Without this activation, the reception is limited to a maximum of 15 messages.

Please keep in mind that this is a pre-production version which may still have limitations or errors and may not work on all Android TV or Amazon Fire TV devices. I own a Sony TV A11 and an Amazon Fire TV. The app has been extensively tested on these devices.

Promo codes for feedback in Google Playstore

During the beta test phase I am interested at every feedback. If you want to try the app, you can email me at [e-mail] and I will send you a promo code for free and permanent use.

Current limitations of PushTV

PushTV is constantly evolving. Missing features or improvements will be submitted by update. Here is the list of not ready to implement features:

Display attachments as picture (attachment Tag)
url and url_title tags are not supported. This only makes sense if you want to start a browser directly to the url on the TV.
Messages with Priority 2 and set retry and expire tags are currently not supported. This type of messages must be acknowledged by the user.
Two-factor authorization to pushover.net is currently not possible.
Pushover license

For using the Pushover service you have to purchase a license for $4.99 USD directly here from pushover. The first 7 days to test the service are free. This acquired Desktop license can also be used for other devices like Windows Browser or macOS Safari. Please inform yourself on the websites of Pushover.

Important notes

Pushover is independent of this app and is available for iOS devices and Android mobiles or tablets. I have no business relationship or other connection to the service Pushover.

Pushover is a trademark and product of Superblock, LLC.

Ratings and reviews

Honestly unless I'm missing something in the settings I have no idea why you would default to have the notifications so central. Standard practice would be to have them bottom right. A real shame because Push TV works really well on my Shield, but the placement means It,s far too obtrusive when watching media. Change this and it will definitely be 5 star. EDIT.... Just noticed the changelog, so I will see if the app on my Shield is out of date. Nope! I'm on version 1.7 (Build 45) and they are definitely still central.

I do enjoy it and it does work. But it does not last long enough on screen. It is so quick that you have no time to read it, even if you are expecting it. Time length is something around 3 seconds. The developer should increase the time or add a user configurable setting. I really recommend that this oversight please be corrected. Otherwise this will be such a disappointment.

The app doesn't actually do anything. It just shows up space on your devices not creating notifications for you to see off your TV It's really dumb.

What’s new

Fully redesigned.
Changeover to the new framework.
New WebSocket Client Handler for more stability.
Experimental support for attachments. A desktop license from pushover.net is required.