Add new push notification "types"

[Grayda]

As this post points out, notifications aren't really that useful for people who live in the middle latitudes, as they may be several days' drive away from a potential location.

I think it'd be a good idea to let users 'opt in' to a threeday notification. That is, when the new three day Kp forecast is obtained, send out a push notification if any of the forecasted Kp's are over their minimum.

This is still in the discussion / planning stage, so I'm not going to commit to a version, but it may make it into 1.0.0. Users can use the API or the app to get the info they need in the meantime.

And adding to this, there are also plans for additional notification types, including:

• Current Kp
• 4 hour Kp forecast
• Nowcast worldwide percent

No progress has been made on this, due to other features taking priority (e.g. getting push notifications working again :smile:), but will be planned soon.

[Grayda]

Update on this:

This is planned for the v2 API. Using a new PHP framework means I can easily add in different notification types and have them run independently.

Initially there'll be a legacy style notification system (which is what v1 currently has), but I fully intend to add more types and if funding allows, hire someone to write better notification algorithms.

[Grayda]

This has been implemented in v2 of the API. There are now the following types, with more being added later:

• "Legacy" (notifies if the Kp is greater than X, and notifies on each increase, then notifies when the Kp goes under X)
  • Highest Nowcast (same as "Legacy", but for highest nowcast)

And these ones are planned:

• 3 Day Kp Forecast (same as "Legacy" but for 3 day Kp forecasts)
• 27 Day Kp Forecast (same as 3 day, but for the 27 day Kp forecast)
• Machine learning-based notifications (uses the new ML system to only send you notifications if conditions that actually matter (e.g. sun / moon / cloud etc.) are ideal.