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After finding the time to get my Home Assistant to monitor when our washing machine and dryer are done I faced the next challenge. Sending a push notification to me and my wife. Luckily we are already using Delta Chat and there is something that resembles a complete library to send messages to people and a flag to set for bots. So, how hard can it be? I am a happy Pushover customer. Easily the best $5 I spent a few years ago to have a simple way to send a push notification to myself. Sure, I could have built on the whole "own app, own service" thing, but the VM running the push service alone would cost me more in a year than the one time payment. But to send a push to me and my wife I would either have to opt for the Teams plan or have her get her own account and maintain two integrations. We are already happy Delta Chat users and while I dismissed the idea of integrating Delta Chat as a chat interface for LazerBunny, I was considering a push only service for some time for other…

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