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ioBroker Smartphone Integration



ioBroker offers adapter for 3 different smartphone notification apps - Pushbullet, Pushsafer and Pushover. All of them work pretty much the same. We want to show the basic setup here, based on two of them.

Pushover

First search for Pushover inside your smartphones app store and install the app. Please create an account and set a login.


ioBroker Pushover Integration

Then go to the Adapters tab in ioBroker install the Pushover Adapter:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

You will be asked for a Group Key and a Token that we need to get from the Pushover website: https://pushover.net/login.


ioBroker Pushover Integration

Login with the account you created inside your smartphone app:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

Go to Apps&Plugins and choose to Create a New Application / API Token:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

Create the Application:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

You will now get the API Token - select and copy it:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

Go back to ioBroker and copy it into your Pushover Adapter Configuration:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

Go back to the Pushover website, click on the logo to go the start page and copy your User Key:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

Copy the user key into the Group Key field in the Pusherover configuration in ioBroker:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

Click on Test to send a test notification to your smartphone:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

The notification should arrive seconds later on your smartphone:


ioBroker Pushover Integration

We are now able to use an event in ioBroker to send a push notification to our smartphone. Check out the Blockly Tutorial for more information.





Pushsafer

First search for Pushsafer inside your smartphones app store and install the app. Then go to the Adapters tab in ioBroker and install the Pushsafer Adapter:


ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

You will need a Private Key to use Pushsafer with ioBroker:


ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

For this create an account on https://www.pushsafer.com:


ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

And copy your Private Key:


ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

Paste it into the adapter configuration:


ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

Start the app and login with the account you just created:


ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

Assign a name and register your phone:


ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

Back to Pushsafer website you will now see your smartphone listed. Copy the auto assigned ID:


ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

And copy it into the Device field. Clicking the Test Button should now send a test notification to your smartphone:


ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

ioBroker Pushsafer Integration

We are now able to use an event in ioBroker to send a push notification to our smartphone. Check out the Blockly Tutorial for more information.