Pushover Twincat

Pushover is a cloud-based service for sending real-time notifications. It allows you to send alerts, reminders, and messages to smartphones and computers. Pushover supports various platforms, including Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS. It provides APIs to send messages programmatically, making it ideal for industrial applications where real-time notifications are crucial.

This project allows integration of Pushover notifications directly from a PLC. It enables you to send real-time alerts and messages from your PLC over Pushover to notify users about important events, alarms, and statuses. There are two main parts of this project

An ADS Server implemented with C#, which sends requests to pushover via the pushover api
A PLC Library, which sends requests to the ADS Server

Installation (Windows)

Download the latest release

Install and start the Windows Service by opening a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges and running:

sc create PushoverService binpath="<ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_PushoverService.exe>"
sc start PushoverService

For instance, the commands may look like

sc create PushoverService binpath="C:\Users\Stefan\Downloads\PushoverTwincat\PushoverService.exe"
sc start PushoverService

Installation (Linux, BSD)

Download the latest release

Create a service file /etc/systemd/system/pushoverservice.service, which looks similar to

[Unit]
Description=Pushover TwinCAT Service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/dotnet </path/to/PushoverService.dll>/PushoverService.dll
Restart=always
User=<youruser>
Environment=DOTNET_ENVIRONMENT=Production

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and adapt the placeholders </path/to/PushoverService.dll> and <youruser>

Start the service by calling

sudo systemctl enable pushoverservice
sudo systemctl start pushoverservice

Usage

Reference the Pushover PLC Library with the Twinpack Package Manager. Alternatively, get it from the latest GitHub release, install and reference it manually with TwinCAT.

Use the following code for sending push notifications

PROGRAM MAIN
VAR
   _send : BOOL;
   _pushoverClient : Pushover.PushoverClient('<your_pushover_apptoken>', '<your_pushover_user>');
END_VAR

IF _send
THEN
   _send := FALSE;
   _pushoverClient.SendMessageAsync('Hello World!');
END_IF

_pushoverClient.Cyclic();

Uninstall (Windows)

Uninstall the Windows Service by opening a Command Prompt with Administrator privileges and running:
```
sc stop PushoverService
sc delete PushoverService
```

Uninstall (Linux, BSD)