Looking for a way to broadcast notifications of new media to a whatsapp group, which I use for requests and new media. It just me, kids and friends (10 users).

Not all have Discord, so that option is out (however well documented).

Anyone seen anything on this?

Greatly appreciated.

Side note; Been running my server for around 5 months. Have all the usuall plugins installed, custom branding, LiveTV through an iptv service, schedule, recordings etc etc. Absolutely loving it. It's just perfect. It's grown rapidly. Over 160 Movies and 90 odd TV Shows and counting. I've already bought two extra HDD's to accommodate. It literally never fails. Any client, flawless, even on the fixed tablet in the car. Now if only I could get notifications via WhatApp to save me doing this manually with every new episode/film. Complete automation is the goal.

Edit: my bad spelling.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

might be possible using homeasistent ofisiall integraton for jellyfin and for telegram hacs in tegrations for whatsapp and messenger

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

interesting, I could use that for telegram groups, if this is available. less talking to my family in person :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think WhatsApp's always been pretty hard to call from other sources than the official client. There's no form of open API at all.
Last time I checked the Matrix bridge for WhatsApp used Android emulation for the official app to get it working. Maybe try that if you absolutely have to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You could add Ombi to your software stack. It supports multiple push notification providers (WhatsApp is included I believe). Bonus is it will let your users add requests which can either be admin approved, or automatically added to your respective *arr downloader.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry not an answer about the notification issue.. Wanted to ask how you managed to get work without issues for every client? What format/codec is you media? Are you transcoding everything? I got some issues with smart TVs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've had an issue with an LG smart TV (not really an LG, its a re-brand). The web browser was horrifically slow and it flat out refused to play anything. It has very limited processing resources. I was planning on side loading the jellyfin client for LG TV's but that was all dropped in favour of a chromecast. Instantly solved the problem (and they're quite cheap on social media marketplaces)

Other than that, I've never had an issue with any client.

My media is a mix of pretty much everything available. 264, 265, avi etc etc. I occasionally have an issue with 265 media, stuttering. Easily solved by deleting and redownloading a 264 version. Transcoding (or not, dependant on client) is all handled automatically by Jellyfin.

Hope that helps?

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