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I have several remote Raspberry Pies from which I have been sending notices to my Mac and iOS devices using a combination of Growl and Prowl. Growl is no longer supported. Beginning with Catalina, Growl crashed quite often and with Big Sur it is very unstable. I'm looking for a replacement messaging system that I can use with existing bash scripts on the remote Pies.

I can use Prowl's API to send messages to the iOS devices, but not to the Mac. I can use OSASCRIPT via SSH to send messages to the Mac, but they don't make it to the iOS devices. I can use email which gets to all devices, but ends up making a very cluttered inbox. I've looked at Boxcar, but it seems to be a little much for my needs.

Any ideas?

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I use an app called Pushover which has apps for the Mac and iPhone/iPad. It can receive messages of various levels of “urgent-ness” even to the point of being allowed to bypass “Do Not Disturb” on iOS 14 if you so choose.

Pushover has an API that allows you to send messages using curl and it is very easy to use, and has very generous usage allowances. Using curl also means that it should work from a Raspberry Pi or any other Unix-y system.

The iPhone/iPad app, Android app, and Mac cost $5 each (iPhone and iPad is a single $5 purchase, Android is $5, Mac app is $5). These are one-time purchases, not subscriptions.

This is a service I had used since 2014 and found to be extremely reliable, easy to use, and inexpensive. I highly recommend it.

I wrote up an example shell script to show how to use it, which I call po.sh (for pushover obviously).

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  • Thanks. Seems to be exactly what I was looking for.
    – Buadhai
    Jun 10, 2021 at 7:12

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