Pushover
Pushover is a third-party cloud based application that can provide real-time notifications on your Android or iOS mobile device, and computer. when event occur on you Hubitat Elevation® hub.
Setup overview
- Visit pushover.net to create an account and obtain a user token (a long string of random letters and numbers).
- Add the devices that will receive the notification, such as a phone or tablet.
- Create an application, which will in-turn respond with an app token (an additional long string of random letters and numbers).
- On your Hubitat Elevation® hub, create one or more virtual devices, and set their driver to Pushover.
- Paste the two separate Tokens you received when creating a Pushover account.
- Select Save.
- Use your Pushover device(s) in Rule Machine® rules and Hubitat Elevation® apps to send notifications.
Setup detailed instructions
- Create an Account at http://www.pushover.net
- Once the account setup is completed, the new account setup process will automatically create a User Key (Token).
- There's only one User Key per account. You will find it displayed in the upper right corner of the Account screen as Your User Key.
- At the bottom of the account screen, go to Your Applications and select Create an Application/API Token.
- Enter a name for the Application. Tipically this will be "Hubitat".
- Agree to the Terms of Service and select Application. The application key will be shown as API Token/Key.
- You may create other keys for other applications, but use the Hubitat key for your Hubitat Elevation® notifications.
- On your Hubitat Elevation hub, choose Devices from the sidebar, and select Create Virtual Device at the top of the screen, and fill in the fields as follows.
Device Name: Pushover
Device Network ID: psh01 (Example only. It may be anything unique name you choose).
Type: Pushover Driver - Select Save Device
- From the Preferences for the device you just created, paste the Key/Tokens in their respective fields.
User Key: user key/token
Application Key: application key/token - Press Save Preferences
That's it, you're done creating. You may now start using your new Pushover notification system in Rule Machine® rules or Hubitat Elevation® apps, from which you would like to have a notification sent.