Feature: Push notifications for platform change & delays #180

[SerkanYildiz]

Wouldn't a awesome idea to send push notifications to users on their phone, when there is a platform change or delay. It will be useful when you couldn't hear the announcement on the station.

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/push-notifications/?hl=en

[pietercolpaert]

Cool indeed! Didn't know this was possible!

[SerkanYildiz]

Will work on this ;-) I'll do a pull request when it's ready

[pietercolpaert]

Focus on your oSoc16 work right now ;-) I also have doubts about how expensive this would be to keep online: we want to keep this cheap to host. So let's not do this too quickly

[JeromeGillard]

Also interested by a delay notification. To keep it lightweight, the API could invoke one decentralized webhook (Webhooks are "user-defined HTTP callbacks").
Then the remote server could push notifications by anyway he likes (push notification, mail, SMS, Pushbullet, Slack, ...). This way, the load would charge only this server.

If that is up, I could spend time to code an app that would fill automatically my "compensation for delays" sheets. I am tired to fill it by hand!

[pietercolpaert]

@JeromeGillard You could as well just do that with the data that is exposed by the API right? Also, there are quite some apps that provide this functionality already, such as BeTrains and BeLate