Ntfy.sh (IT Notifications)

River Oaks Church - Created June 2025

As of 6/15/25, instead of using Telegram for IT-related alerts (Since Telegram deleted our bots), we are using a software called Ntfy.sh.

Ntfy is hosted on Cole's datacenter cluster for now, due to the ease of making the service publically accessible. But can be easily moved.

Getting an account

I could send out emails with randomly generated passwords for each user, but I think it's more secure if everyone creates their own account. A guide on how to do this is linked here

Setting it up

Next step after creating an account is adding it to your mobile app. Download the Ntfy app linked here, under the settings menu, add the server URL, which is https://notifications.ro.church. Then, add your account (user) below. Use the same URL if it asks.

Notifications

There will be many notification topics/threads that can be subscribed to. This is similar to MQTT, in the sense that messages are sent via topics, and that's how you can access them. Listed below is a table of each topic (as of now), and what they send.

-- An additional benefit of this system vs Telegram is that it doesn't matter how many users subscribe to a topic. With Telegram, every new user we want needs a new ID for each message we want to send, meaning we need to send multiple messages at once so every user gets one. With Ntfy, we send a single message, and everyone's phones can fetch them.

Topic Breakdown

Topic	Explanation
mpr-qsys	Q-SYS scene alerts / general logging
uptime-all	All generally important uptime alerts
uptime-archive	All uptime alerts