====Apprise Notifications====

The **Apprise** addon uses the Python //Apprise// library (https://github.com/caronc/apprise) to send out notifications of ARDI alerts.

This gives administrators a huge range of possible destinations for alerts and gives the ability to logging, recording and automated responses to alerts across a wide variety of platforms.

As well as simply being able to trigger calls to websites, apprise can send notifications to...

  * Teams
  * Google Chat
  * Slack
  * Facebook / X
  * SMS
  * Messaging Services

...and many more. See [[https://github.com/caronc/apprise#supported-notifications|this page]] for the complete listing.

===Setup===

To send a notification, you'll need to create a //apprise URL//. This **looks** like a web URL, but usually doesn't contain a web address and instead gives the information needed to create a notification in the package of your choice.

For example, sending a notification to //slack// uses a URL like the one below...

<code>
slack://{botname}@{TokenA}/{TokenB}/{TokenC}/{Channel}
</code>

...where you substitute your unique bot name, tokens and channel ID in the spaces provided.

Alternatively, you could send an SMS using the online //ClickSend// service using...

<code>
clicksend://{user}:{pass}@{phone}
</code>

or to our preferred messaging system //Signl4// using...

<code>
signl4://{webhook_id}
</code>

===Setting Up Notifications===

Find out how to [[create notifications|create notifications]].