a1-notify

Use different techniques to notify an event (alarm, trigger).

Available methods: beep, email, web push notification, sms to phone.

Email special case

Tested from gmail to gmail and to outlook.

https://nodemailer.com/about/

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

Steps:

• enable 2fa in the account
• create an app password

Usage

Typescript is also available

No configuration required.

import * as notify from 'a1-notify'
notify.beep()

API

• beep(): Beep sound in the current computer.
• async rest(url, message): Send an HTTP POST message.
• async push(url, message, token?): Send a web push notification. Token is optional for restricted push messages.
• async email(to, subject, message): Send an email message. process.env.EMAIL_USER and process.env.EMAIL_APP_PW must be set before sending. Message can be either text or html.
• async sms(phone, message): Send an SMS (requires AWS account and whitelisted or arbitrary SMS must be selected in the AWS console).
• async popup(title,message): Display a desktop GNOME popup notification.