Qnotix

Qnotix is a Pub/Sub notification system written in Elixir based on just websockets implementation of Plug.Cowboy.

Description

Qnotix is a topic-based system, highly resilient, each topic running within its own, independent, supervised processes.

The Pub side feeds events by HTML POST API. The Sub side is dispatching events as push-notifications to clients through websocket connection.

Both Pub and Sub sides depend and evolve on a named topic and its own port number.

The format of messages, JSON, is similar to that of ntfy. As Sub client, the ntfy Android app must be used, the flavor available on F-Droid, without Firebase.

Find more details at Qnotix documentation on Hexdocs.

This application (though slightly modified) is actually in production since March 2022 for a private surveillance company, serving more than 150 subscribers from 17 publishers.

Installation

Copy this repo via git clone https://github.com/huqedato/qnotix or download it.

Alternatively, as a dependency, add qnotix to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:qnotix, "~> 1.0.0"}
  ]
end

Then run mix deps.get.

Set application's management port (backendPort), start port numbering for topics (wsStartPort) and event lifetime in days (msgDeadAfter) in runtime.exs.

Configuration & Usage

Launch server: iex -S mix

Register a new topic: Qnotix.newTopic(topic_name).

Launch a new topic on the desired port Qnotix.newTopic(topic_name, port).

Check the web management interface for supervising topics and ports, registering new topics, kill topics etc.

By example, considering the server running locally on port 4000 and a topic named myTopic on port 4111 one can:

• access web management interface: http://localhost:4000
• register a new topic: http://localhost:4000/new
• kill topic by name or port http://localhost:4000/end
• publish notification to myTopic by POST method to http://localhost:4111/pub
• web page to publish mock notifications to all subscribers for myTopic on http://localhost:4111/

Qnotix is only compatible and working with ntfy Android client app. The topic format/url is ws://host:port/topic_name/ws. Ex: ws://192.168.1.1:4111/myTopic/ws

Documentation

http://hexdocs.pm/qnotix

TODO

Kindly asking the Elixir community's support for:

• development of a dedicated Android/IOS notification client for Qnotix
• improved documentation
• system extension for providing data streaming from 3rd party applications, services, or IoT devices (Nerves integration?)
• scalability testing on distributed environment - multiple Erlang nodes, clustering
• adding a security layer

As we lack expertise in mobile apps development we would greatly appreciate the Community's involvement for development of a dedicated notification client for Android/IOS.

License

Copyright © 2022 Quda Theo

This software is released under AGPL-3.0-or-later.