[SOLVED] Self hosted push notifications

[dh.harald (Peter Nyilas)]

Hi,

I can’t get working self hosted push notification for my android phones…
Could you give me directions, what’s missing?

What I did:

• Mattermost: 4.3.0 (self hosted - container)
• Mattermost push-proxy: (self hosted, container) communicates via docker0 interface
• mattermost-mobile:
  • replaced android/app/google-services.json (downloaded from firebase console)
  • modified: <meta-data android:name=“com.wix.reactnativenotifications.gcmSenderId” android:value= ← my gcmSenderID

my push proxy config contains only android specific parts:

{
“ListenAddress”:“:8066”,
“ThrottlePerSec”:300,
“ThrottleMemoryStoreSize”:50000,
“ThrottleVaryByHeader”:“X-Forwarded-For”,
“EnableMetrics”: false,
“AndroidPushSettings”:[
{
“Type”:“android”,
“AndroidApiKey”:“xxx”
},
{
“Type”:“android_rn”,
“AndroidApiKey”:“xxx”
}
]
}

AndroidApyKey from Firebase Settings/General/Web Api Key.

In short, I don’t get notifications:
I’ve tested the following ones:
sending notification from firebase console to deviceid/app:
completed, but I didn’t get any notification in application
using mattermost-push-proxy:
error: 401 Unauthorized type=android_rn

Any idea, what’s missing?

Kind regards,
Harald

[lindy65]

Hi @dh.harald,

Thanks for your feedback,

You don’t say whether you’ve configured your system using guides from our documentation so I’m listing a couple of help docs here. If these don’t help, please come back and we’ll try to troubleshoot further?

• https://docs.mattermost.com/mobile/mobile-troubleshoot.html#im-not-receiving-push-notifications-on-my-device
• https://docs.mattermost.com/mobile/mobile-troubleshoot-notifications.html#troubleshooting-push-notifications
• https://docs.mattermost.com/mobile/mobile-faq.html#do-i-need-to-compile-the-mobile-apps-to-host-my-own-push-notification-server
• https://docs.mattermost.com/overview/faq.html#mobile-applications
• https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/config-settings.html#mobile-push
• https://docs.mattermost.com/deployment/deployment.html#mobile-app-experience

You might also like to upgrade to the latest version of Mattermost as there have been quite a few updates since 4.3

[dh.harald (Peter Nyilas)]

I’ve solved this issue, but I don’t know, what was the real solution…
I started everything from scratch:

• upgraded Mattermost to 4.4.0
• created a new android application
  IMPORTANT: I didn’t do with firebase console, I did it based on this guide: https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-get-started-with-push-notifications-on-android--cms-25870 (tru developer console) (I’ve used application id: com.mattermost.rn)
  I still don’t have firebase application.
  I’ve copied the google-services.json and modified gcmSenderId as mentioned before.

Kind regards,
Harald

[lindy65]

Pleased you have resolved the issue @dh.harald Thanks for posting back your steps to your success…