"Stacking" Event Notifications(Android).

[eekay35]

First, thank you very much for your hard work on all your ZM stuff! It is hands down the best 3rd party/add-on ZM software out there! Fantastic work! With that being said, this isn't an issue, but more of a feature request or wondering if it's already being worked on as it seems to be something that's pretty standard with any notification (on Android, anyway) and it would be very helpful to see dates, times, photos, etc... of all the notifications I'm receiving instead of just one.

As the topic (hopefully?) suggests, I'm wondering if there is a way to have the notifications I'm getting be "stacked" so I can see all the notifications I've received (maybe via pull-down like a text message notification) as opposed to just the very latest. It seems that right now each notification I get just kicks the previous notification out of the way and replaces it. While this is most certainly better than no notification at all, sometimes I'll get multiple notifications while I'm not near my phone and when I do get a chance to take a look, I only see the most recent alert so I'm not sure what else has happened. So, I need to then jump into zmNinja (which also works flawlessly byt the way, so thank you) and dig around through each event until I've seen them all (or just verify that that was the only alert. I don't know if there were more as I only see the one notification). It would be a huge time saver to just simply browse through all the notifications I've received and know what and where they were so I could decided if they are worth me going over all the footage or not.

I hope this makes sense and thank you very much again for all your work!

[pliablepixels]

Congratulations - you actually logged this in the right place. Most people would have logged this in the zmNinja repo. Will read and revert - in the middle of a beta release atm :-)

[eekay35]

Fantastic! I figured it was already in the works or that someone else had made the same request, I just didn't see it here (I didn't figure it belonged in the zmNinja repo?). Anyhow, great! And, thanks again for everything!

[pliablepixels]

@eekay35 try this:

• Replace these lines in zmeventnotification.pl with this payload
• All we are doing is adding a notId field to the android message
• Make sure you stop your event server and start again to make sure this code is loaded
• Please see if you now see multiple notifications in the shade

[eekay35]

Great! Trying now. Being as I was still on zmeventnotification.pl version 2.6, I've pulled the 3.1 version you've supplied (It looks like this is safe?) and I've applied the patch and restarted. No errors in the log. Will go and get some notifications shortly and see if there are multiple in the shade.

[eekay35]

So, it appears to be performing the same way:

I see the notification:

I pull down the notification bar and it display more information about the notification:

Then, I can pull down on that notification and see the image attached to it:

However, there is only one notification to view. The previous notifications are still being bumped by the most recent. If there's anything else you'd like me to try, I'll be more than happy to do so. Thanks again!

[pliablepixels]

I've been playing around and haven't found a simple solution.

The status:

1. If you don't use pictures, you'll notice the events are stacked inbox style
2. If you do use pictures, I need to change the style from inbox to picture to show the image. The problem then is that new messages replace old ones.
3. There is a third option that involves adding a notId to the message payload that changes with each message. That will then show multiple notifications but the problem is they all seem to have individual icons crowding your status bar which is terrible

I've created an issue in the plugin repo to see if there is a simple solution.

(FYI payload stacking/etc parameters are here)

[eekay35]

This all makes perfect sense. I normally wouldn't have a problem with with no picture being attached to the notification but a) it's very handy to immediately see what's happening and b) simply clicking on the notification doesn't take me to the event. It just opens zmNinja to whatever page I was previously viewing (usually the "Monitors" page). So, I still need to dig/search for the event to see what was captured.

While I do see option 3 as an undesired side effect of multiple notifications (with pictures), I don't know if I, personally, would say it's terrible. Then again, I usually only get 1-3 notifications before I'm able to check them. So, it wouldn't burden my notification bar too badly. Others may not feel the same way.

I do appreciate you looking into this, though! It would definitely be an awesome addition/feature to have.

[pliablepixels]

simply clicking on the notification doesn't take me to the event. It just opens zmNinja to whatever page I was previously viewing (usually the "Monitors" page). So, I still need to dig/search for the event to see what was captured.

You can select the tap action. Go to zmninja>settings>event server> onTap navigate to

[eekay35]

Whoa! I swear I tried that when I first set this up and I just could not get that to work. Appears to be working now, though! Thanks for mentioning it or I wouldn't have tried it again.

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