Desktop client (Windows/Mac/Linux)

[12nick12]

Hi, I would love a Windows client with push support

[thefeiter]

This should be doable with python. Maybe not as a final solution, but afaik there is a library for python to send notifications on Windows.

[binwiederhier]

Is this client supposed to send notifications or receive them? If it's the former, i can probably just compile the CLI for Windows.

Can you be a little more specific?

[12nick12]

receive notifications and send them via push on the Windows client.

[SMAW]

Maybe a tutorial like this can help?
Or using electron at all

https://jojozhuang.github.io/tutorial/converting-web-app-to-desktop-app-with-electron/

[c33s]

i would love to subscribe to topics via a windows client. shouldn't it be possible to compile go for windows?

[binwiederhier]

There are two things:

• The CLI (excluding the server) can likely be easily compiled for Windows and Mac, then you can subscribe like described here https://ntfy.sh/docs/subscribe/cli/
• The web app (like this one: https://ntfy.sh/app) can be packaged into a desktop app as well, using electron or others. I played with this today and it's absolutely doable.

Q: Which one would take precedent for you guys?

[binwiederhier]

Note to self, also maybe look at https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri, thanks @Laurenz (Matrix).

[binwiederhier]

(from this afternoon, WIP which does not work: #239)

[arminus]

Regarding the above question: What I'm looking for is an unobtrusive/low footprint systray thingy which tells me about new messages (I frequently forget to keep an ntfy browser tab open, yeah I know, can be pinned...).

Low footprint is kind of an issue with Electron, also not sure how well it would integrate with the systray and windows notification "requirement", so what I did yesterday was to prototype a small WPF app. I'm neither a .NET/WPF nor a C# expert so I'm not sure how far I will get with reasonable effort and energy but here goes a first proof of concept:

There's plenty of things still to do, but the basics are there. The major thing at this point is really that I display the messages in a WebView2 component (for lack of WPF experience on how hot to make such a list look nice w/o HTML) and that defeats the entire purpose of keeping a low memory footprint. Maybe I'll just dump the messages into a RichTextBox instead. Also need to figure out how to browse from there to the system default browser and not Edge... etc. etc.

So... I'll probably be back in a while with this...

[binwiederhier]

@arminus very cool. Keep it up. I would absolutely love to have a low memory footprint app like that, but having to build the web app, Android app, and iOS app all by myself I eont have time for more. So if you can bring this to a great state I'll happily accept the contribution!

I think I'll definitely do the CLI for Windows and the Electron desktop app for all platforms, because it is fairly low effort compared to writing it from scratch. It's just fighting with a little bit of build stuff.

[c33s]

i would also look for a low profile app which sits in the tray and simply fetches notifications.

i thought about doing a simple cron job which calls a bash/php script to fetch new notifications and then use notifu to show them via the OS notification system but this would be an ugly hack

[binwiederhier]

The CLI can do that https://ntfy.sh/docs/subscribe/cli/#subscribe-to-topics, though it doesn't sit in the tray. I suppose I could add tray support to that, but what for...

This will likely be really easy because I just have to compile for Windows.