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Notification Mirror in the Web Dashboard

View phone notifications in any browser on the same Wi-Fi network. Reply inline to messaging apps, get a desktop popup and sound when something new arrives, and dismiss cards individually or all at once.

The Notifications panel in the web dashboard mirrors every notification your phone receives, live, in any browser on the same network. Open it from the header and you get a stack of cards — one per notification — with the app icon, title, body, and any reply actions the source app exposed.

Because the panel is pushed updates the moment a notification is created, updated, or dismissed on the phone, you can leave your phone in another room and still triage messages, reminders, and alerts from your laptop — right down to replying inline, without picking the phone up at all.

Screenshot: Notifications
Notifications

Key capabilities

  • Live notification cards — each card shows the source app's icon, name, title, body, and timestamp, updating in real time as notifications arrive, change, or get dismissed on the phone.
  • Inline reply — messaging notifications that expose a reply action (like a chat message) show one or more reply buttons; tap one to open a text box, type, and send — the reply is delivered back through the source app on the phone.
  • Desktop popup + sound — a new notification can trigger both a desktop notification popup and a short sound, with a volume control right in the panel header.
  • Dismiss one or clear all — the X on a card dismisses just that notification on the phone; the header's clear-list button dismisses everything at once.
  • Permission warning indicator — if the phone's notification-listener permission isn't granted, a warning icon appears in the header with a one-click action to fix it.

Walkthrough

  1. Open the Notifications panel from the header. It lists every current notification, most recent first.
  2. Read a card — app icon, title, body, and how long ago it arrived are all shown together.
  3. Reply inline — if a card shows reply buttons, click one to open the reply box, type your message, and send it straight to the source app.
  4. Dismiss a card by clicking the X — the notification disappears here and on the phone.
  5. Clear everything with the clear-list button in the header when your list gets long.
  6. Adjust or mute the sound with the volume control next to the clear button.

Tips & tricks

  • Click a notification's app icon to expand a raw details view — handy if you're debugging why a particular reply action isn't showing up.
  • If the warning icon appears in the header, click it — it tells you exactly which permission is missing and offers a button to open the right settings screen.
  • Keep the panel open in a pinned browser tab while you work; new notifications surface with a popup and sound without you having to check back.

Privacy & security notes

  • The web dashboard is served over HTTPS with a self-signed certificate, with all traffic further encrypted with XChaCha20-Poly1305 layered on top of TLS.
  • The web dashboard binds to your local network only — it is not reachable from the internet unless you explicitly set up port forwarding.
  • Notification content is relayed directly from the phone to your browser; no third-party push service is involved.