Curious to hear peoples opinion and talk about their setup for push notifications.
I was wondering, do you consolidate all of your push notifications to come from HA or do you keep using the ones that come from whatever tech you have?
For example, Ring doorbell, should you just stick to using the push notifications from Ring to alert when there is motion or someone rings your doorbell, or do you move all that to HA?
Or maybe a mix since you likely have a custom sensor you want to be alerted by HA on, while keeping things like Ring doorbell notifications from the Ring app.
My take is do everything via HA where possible. Only use the vendor app if absolutely necessary for something.
For instance, I use the Amcrest app for the doorbell I have but only for two-way communication since I have yet to figure out how to do that through HA.
Also, I still have to use the Honeywell app for my Lyric thermostat that while it has Home Kit integration, I can’t seem to get to properly program from HA, so I just have it doing stats gathering in HA right now.
Everything else I have is local at this point so the HA app and other self-managed notifications are really the only way forward.