Hi all, I have a problem with unified push as I’m getting no notifications from any app that uses it, be it Element, Element X, Fluffychat or even Fedilab.
I found a similar topic here (now closed) and a thread on Element X’s github, but everything seems a bit different from my case.
I have two /e/ phones (a Teracube 2E and a Murena One) and I’ve enabled unified push in the system settings on both. On the Teracube I even tried installing ntfy and using it.
Murena One: I have element X installed here. Notifications tests all go well (including the notification appearing) except for the push loopback test, which gives the http 507 error (homeserver: matrix.org). Push history gives a count of 0.
Teracube 2E: I have Element installed here. Same exact situation, except the error is more verbose (“Cannot publish to UnifiedPush topic without previously active subscriber”). Under Legal / Homeserver info I get a “Registrations has been disabled. Only m.login.application_service registrations are allowed” error message.
On this phone I also have Fedilab and Fluffychat installed, and I geto notifications from none of them.
I tried installling ntfy and switching to it in Element makes the push test fail with a different error (“Push test failed. You may want to reinstall the application” – I’m translating this back from Italian here).
Have you tried per device:
Install ntfy and UP-Example and check if test notifications work in general w/o using any of the built-in stuff in eOS?
I do not know about the apps that you list but for Molly (fork of signal) I had to connect ntfy to a mollysocket server, maybe they need something similar (?)
The builtin Unified Push has a switch in the Settings, System section, this switch must be ON. (Per default it’s OFF.)
The second is: the builtin Unified Push is nothing else than a plain ntfy. It is also named “ntfy”. So when you installed ntfy (from App Lounge or whatever) and you switch also the builtin Unified Push ON you get a name conflict. The apps do then not know which ntfy to use. So, when you plan to use the builtin Unified Push you should not have any other ntfy on your device. The best is to uninstall it.
The builtin Unified Push works very well and reliable, I use it with Molly. (OK, the server behind is currently unclear for me. I made once a configuration for an installed ntfy based on a mollysocket server, this was before it became builtin. But then I uninstalled this ntfy to use the builtin one. So - which server does it use now?)
Not on all devices though, it does not work at all on my S7 for instance. That’s why I suggest to try w/o built-in options to rule out built-in issues.
