For a long time we’ve been using and recommending PushBullet and PushOver as very convenient ways of receiving notifications from astronomy equipment.
Important: in order for this to work, you have to let us know, so we can register your PushOver or PushBullet token in the Dragonfly cloud server..
We added support for them in the Solo, and then explained how to send the messages from scripts, so they could be issued from almost all of our products.
Just now, we’ve added native support in the Dragonfly – in such a way that, even with no PC connected to it, you can get important notifications to your smartphone or PC immediately. Even more, with PushOver, you can get high priority notifications.
You can, for example, send a message if the roof starts to open while the weather is deemed unsafe. Or if the roof closes while the mount is unparked. First two cases that come to mind…
Both PushBullet and PushOver are great apps, but we prefer PushOver as it has the high priority feature which is very convenient. Both no doubt can contribute to being better informed about what’s going on at the observatory.
