Is there anyway to change the alert on your device for Homey notifications?
Some notifications are very important and I would like to have them sound different from other info only notifications.
Try Pushover on Homey and mobile. Works for me.
On android, I can set any sound to the events
Long press the app icon, go to āApp infoā and then go to āNotificationsā
It will change all notifications from Homey. With Pushover I can for example have another sound for high priority alerts.
@Peter_Kawa doesnt seem to work on iOS, either that or it doesnāt work with the beta App.
I would give Pushover a try but it hasnāt been updated for HP23.
Try the test version.
Ah, youāre right, I was thinking about the different notification categories, of which you can pick different sounds for, but I did not get the exact point of @Peter_Bittner 's question appearantly 
Why do I need pushover? should these functionalities (add different sounds, override silence settings of phone and so on) not be just in the base functionality of the Homey app?
Ho I really have to install multiple apps on my families phones instead of just 1ā¦ ? 
Everyone wants something different.
One person thinks āhow could they forgotā, the other thinks ānever crossed my mindā!
Iām the kind of person who absolutely hates any sound coming from my phone, you obviously arenāt.
As always, you can request for new features here at
Ideas & Suggestions
and/or at homey.app/support
Well if I setup a smart home (with a central hub as homey is) the possibility to raise alarms should be a key feature:
letās say there is smoke at night - you donāt want an alarm?
I always have my phone on silent, but for certain thingsā¦
does this make it clearer?
You are clear, I only want to show you whatās normal, or logical to you, donāt make it necessarily normal or logical to anyone else.
So I donāt trust any āsmartā device for smoke alarm ( or smoke alarm sounds) of course, because āsmartā devices like Homey, are unreliable, and primarily designed for switching lights, not for life saving situations. Also wireless signals are just not reliable by their design.
My smoke sensors themselves are loud as fuck and wake up the neighbours as well. Yours should be too?
yes sure, but that was one example.
what about when Iām not at home?
what about I am not at home and my door sensor goes onā> alarm me
there is many examples, where a home automation and security system should be able to provide a wide variety of notifications imho. but sure thatās my opinion
Same here, my phone is always in silent mode.
However, I do have some (critical) notifications that I want to be able to hear as well:
- when one of the flood sensors triggers
- when a person is spotted on our driveway while weāre sleeping
- when the central heating system produces an error
- when we go to bed and thereās still a door/window open or unlocked
- when the water tank of the coffee machine is empty (this is the most important one)
Obviously I do all this with HA, and most notifications have their own sound so I can recognise it without even looking at my phone.
can you please elaborate what you mean with obviously with āHAā what is HA and how do you do it? 
āHome Assistantā
(Not that I ever used this, I just searched with https://duckduckgo.com/?q=home+assistant+different+message+sound 
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ah ok - but that also is another app / software to use, when I think homey should be the base and central steering instanceā¦ 
