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binwiederhier / ntfy

Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST
https://ntfy.sh
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Camera function #859

Closed do-me closed 1 year ago

do-me commented 1 year ago

:bulb: Idea

I was wondering why ntfy didn't offer a direct way to take a picture (yet?). It's fairly simple to integrate and would benefit the users as one could avoid going the longer way over file uploads.

It could be beneficial if a user e.g. selected "always open with..." File Explorer or similar and hence cannot find the option Camera anymore (probably until all cookies, local storage etc. are deleted). I had this situation on one of my Android phones (Android 13).

:computer: Target components

Client-side on the web and mobile apps.

On the mobile apps a native solution would be best but in the web app one could use getUserMedia(). I just created such a simple demo with a minimal UI that sends a picture to a ntfy channel. In my case, I needed a cross-platform method to send images from the browser straight to ntfy without leaving my html page: https://do-me.github.io/js-camera-capture/

I think it would be nice to design a UI similar to standard messengers like WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal etc. where the camera icon is just next to the send icon.

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binwiederhier commented 1 year ago

While this is a fascinating idea, I think this falls in the category of "not everything that can be done, must be done". I'm invoking my maintainer right to respectfully reject this idea. Thanks for submitting!