Notifications on Android woes

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Having a challenge to get notifications on Android. Upon rebooting the phone, there is no chance you’ll get any sort of Home Assistant notification (notify.notify). Open the app, and the notification arrives. Once open and closed, subsequent notifications do arrive. Then gradually, they stop arriving until the phone is turned on and then bing another delayed one will come through.

The Android notification engine is miles ahead of Apple but in recent years various phone manufacturers have messed things up by introducing all sorts of battery and data saving techniques that either on purpose or inadvertently stop notifications coming through. I’ve gone through every option available, following numerous guides (been using Droid for 10 years) and cannot see anything that would get in the way of a notification. Interestingly, I use another push notification app called “WirePush” which works of a simple web call. That is 100% reliable and the app/notification/data/battery settings are identical.

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 running Android 10. Anyone have any expertise on the matter?

Thanks

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It’s not the app. It’s an Android thing. I’ll take it back. It’s actually more of a conspiracy between Google and phone manufacturers. More here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/bkxqgg/notifications_are_broken_on_android_pie_and/

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check that you have granted teh app background access and that you are following the critical notification format to speed up delivery of the notification

dontkillmyapp.com will help provide tips on disabling any extra samsung battery saving things.

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Critical notifications did it eventually. Thanks

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