Hello friends,

I have a telescope running all night in the backyard while I'm in the house.
How can I be notified if something bad happens?

For example, today my camera decided to be a potato and stopped talking to indi. After turning it off and on again 10 times, it worked again.
Grafana has an option of sending alerts to a Telegram chat.
Ekos supports only standard KDE notification options:
* Sound (can't hear, I'm in the house)
* message popup (can't see, the scope is controlled by a rpi)
* log to a file (promising)
* taskbar (useless)
* run command (very promising)
* speech (can't hear)

I saw a post where someone made a tiny email client. I don't check email that often.

Any other ideas what a remote notification can be?

Anyway, assuming I really want to be notified via Telegram:
Option 1: Add Telegram support to KDE
Don't even know where to start

Option 2: Log to a file
Make a daemon that forwards changes to the file to a telegram chat

Option 3: Run a command forwarding notifications to a telegram chat

Option 4 (No coding required): Grafana
Log notifications to a file
Configure Prometheus to ingest those notifications
Configure Grafana to send those notifications to a telegram chat

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