handling alerts and notifications

[sinise]

I have been thinking about how to consume and handle alerts.
I think there is a need for at least two ways to receive the alerts.

1. When you are away from the boat you need to get the alerts on you mobile phone

2. When you are on the boat you need an audible alarm and a touch display where you can see the alarm and snooze it for a while until you fixed the problem.

Before starting to implement this with node red or building a plugin I like to ask what solutions you are using or can recommend. Because I assume I'm not the first one to have this need. any recommendations is welcome .

Thanks

[gregsyoung]

just noticed tha no one responded.

herewith my experiences.

Local Notifications
i use wilhelmSK - which provides visible AND audible alerts from notification messages.
I also use a sonalert style high freq beeper ... connected to a RPi pin via a relay, and some NodeRed flows to respond to the notfications and create a number of different pulsing alert cadences ... eg different for Alert vs Warn vs Alarm
I also have the fusion audio plugin, and hence it will also generate audible alerts (when my audio system is on) .. but beware this can be quite intrusive for guests and your marina neighbors!!

For remote notifications
I use WilhelmSK - which along with associated "Push Notifications"plugin, this only then requires an internet connection and the app running.

I also use "Pushover"Plugin - which i find works very well. the app doesnt need to be running ... and you can customise sounds, messages et al
i use Pushover from my home automation system - so it fits well - as i have the pushover App on both my IOS tablets and Android phone.
noting however that the Pushover app is a one time payment (for each OS)
its subsrciption free for messaging levels that are well within what you should need .. if you exceed them - you have much bigger issues!

aside from the "notifications"messages triggering the Pushover messages,
i also have bilge pump and various other onboard sensors ... that thru either Nodered flows or various plugins (eg zones, simple notifications etc) geneerate a corresponding alarm notification

my other onboard sensors that generate alarm notifications include
fridge and freezer (ruuvii tags) temperature sensors
C02 and heat sensors
bilge pumps
high water
battery temperatures
shore power absence
anchor alarm
anchor light left on during day (or forgotten to switch ON at night .. if the anchor is set)
nav lights (reminder to switch on if it detects engine running/boat moving at night)

i hope this helps you

[hoeken]

I also like pushover, works really well and you can configure different sounds, etc to correspond with the different notification levels.

I setup my Pi with a small USB speaker and use the google_speech command to do text to speech to read out the info. There are already waaay too many anonymous homogeneous beeps on the boat.

[tkurki]

See ongoing work related to this in the future: SignalK/signalk-server#1560

[tkurki]

Also related: https://panbo.com/nmea-2000-network-alert-pgns-seem-great-so-why-are-they-hardly-used/

[Ric121]

I use a pluggin in SignalK called Renotifier that executes a script every time a notification is raised. The script I trigger sends me a Telgram message. It's free, compared to pushover if I understand well.