Notifications across Other Users

mucr

I just added google voice to a sandbox and it appears to be working fine - it gets both audio and message notifications for every text received. I have the "send notifications to current user" set.

When I go back to my Admin account, I receive one audio notification from the very first Voice activity, but then no further audio, but I do receive all of the message notifications at the top. All of the notifications show up in the history too. I get no more than that one audio notification unless I go back to the sandbox and then, coming back to Admin I get that one, first, audio notification.

I did wait over a period of time to try another text in case there's some sort of timer, however >30 min and no change.

Is this the intended operation? IMO, I could be in my Admin (home) account and I'd get an audio notification for every action in the sandbox, just like the message notifications are working. Maybe I missed a config somewhere?

unwat

mucr

Sorry your question has been sitting here for a while without an answer. The only real way to figure out the answer is to read some code. So, I did that.

From the code I read and some messing around with my phone, it looks like it all depends on how the app that's sending notifications from the originating user posts notifications to the current user. I can't know for sure what the difference is without reading more code from specific apps, but it appears that if one app creates a creates a group notification, then passes notifications to the group, the first notification to the notification group is sent across users, but subsequent notifications that are sent to the same group aren't sent across users.

Since Android automatically groups notifications anyway, it's hard to tell how or which apps do this. Since you're getting this behavior with Google Voice, they must be grouping notifications.

mucr

unwat TYVM for researching and the reply.

I'm not familiar with group notifications. I'll look around for that. If anyone else knows more about group settings or how to change out of that, please pass the info.

mucr

I went through and enabled all "applicable" app's notifications in both sandboxes (admin and test) and now each audio notification is received (it works). Thing is, I never saw anything about group(s/ed/ing). So I cannot say for certain WHICH setting needed changing.

That said, anyone know how to isolate which notifications are affected by this? I see notification history : Android System . Other Users is the source of the notification but that was the same when it only came through once, vs. every time. Any recommendations on how to dig a little deeper?

I could leave well enough alone, at "it works", but I would like to turn off anything not required. Preferably not by changing each setting, switching sandboxes, testing, switching back, changing .... over and over.

unwat

mucr

Really? Do you have any idea how you fixed it?

Group notifications are a thing that apps do. For example, WhatsApp can create a notification group using an id called "friends" and all notifications from the group "friends" goes to the notification group "friends".

Some apps allow you to change group notification behavior, but most don't. You can't change this setting via the settings app.

If you were able to fix this by yourself then there might be another explanation. You said you don't know which change fixed the issue, but can you list some of the changes you made?

mucr

unwat I only tweaked the notification settings in the two sandboxes (home and test). Those I recall were system (including 'other user'), and the GVoice app itself. I can't say for certain which one was the winner.