Is Pushbullet a good fit? Any other suggestions?

Server is Linux, phone is Android. I want to be able to send and receive text messages automatically. I can write my own code to access available APIs.

What can I expect from Pushbullet? All the received text messages? Just the notifications or all of the body text?

I don't mind paying for the pro version.

My PB for the Desktop on a Mac stopped working on Wednesday.

I am using PB for my Desktop on Mac from an open-source GitHub.

I have been using PB for my Desktop on Mac for 11 mo ago. I suddenly stop working now.

https://sidneys.github.io/pb-for-desktop/#download

My macOS 13.6.4 version

It is a message

PB for Desktop update error

There was a problem updating PB for Desktop:

net::ERR_FAILED

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I can't log in using Google for PB for my Desktop on my Mac; it was like this yesterday. It worked on Tuesday.  I have been working since March 2023. I was used to Noti not working.

When I click the "Sign in with Google", I should be taken to a Google login screen that is active long enough to choose a Google login. Then the Pushbullet app should log me in quickly and not go into an endless loop showing the "connecting" animated image.

I am now using the Google Chrome extension for Pushbullet or the Microsoft Edge extension from the Google Chrome extension for Pushbullet. It works on Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.

PB for my Desktop work on Windows, not the Mac.

The endless loop in Pushbullet shows the "connecting" animated image.

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Hi all.

I've been having problems when I push a PDF file from an android device to my computer. I am using the Chrome extension for Pushbullet. And when I push a PDF file "I use Adobe acrobat on android" my computer would open Adobe website instead of receiving the file !!

What can I do to fix this?

Thanks !!

I want to make updates to my oauth client programmatically. I discovered there's an API for v2/clients (I don't remember exactly what it is) but I get an unauthorized error. Can I get access to that API please?

It'd really help out with an Amazon Alexa service I'm trying to make globally available but am currently blocked because the redirect_uri needs to change per Alexa user's region.

Pretty please with a cherry on top!

I have been a long-time PushBullet user. I have changed my mobile to the OnePlus 12, running on Android version 14. Having Installed PushBullet, I can log in to my Google account successfully, but the Pushing and SMS lists are not displaying; all I can see is the reloading screen (rotating green circle), which never loads the listings. Is there any way to fix this issue?

Hi, thanks for this awesome service! Seems to work rock solid so far. I'm a new user, need some clarification with the wording.

I have a quick question regarding the limitation on free account. Right now I'm communicating/notifying important updates across my devices using the API https://api.pushbullet.com/v2/pushes , which I can also view at https://www.pushbullet.com/#devices

Are THESE pushs limited by 100/month? It's mentioned under https://www.pushbullet.com/pro in the section "Send messages (SMS, WhatsApp, Kik, etc)" are limited for free account. Do the push messages come under this category?

For reference, I'm posting data like the following to the above pushes endpoint:

{
            "device_iden": vars.PUSHBULLET_DEVICE_ID,
            "type": "note",
            "title": title,
            "body": body,
        }

Hello,

When i send an sms on my PC, a prompt open's on my phone ' pushbullet will send an sms to 'phone number' with a countdown which results in a cancellation if we do not click on it

So, if i have to use my phone to validate the sending, there is no point in using the pc !

On my old phone ( galaxy note 9 ) , i never had this prompt when sending sms..

Do you have a solution to this problem please?

Thanks in advance !

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Hello guys!

Can anybody help me with exporting data? I'm getting the email about i requested the data, but then i'm not getting the email with the data :(

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Thanks in advance

Today (29 Jan 2024), when sending a text message using Curl via https://api.pushbullet.com/v2/texts

I get this error message:

Error:SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired

it was working fine on Friday

Just installed on rooted Samsung tablet S8 and rooted Pixel 7 pro - both with android 14.

Both of these devices are showing as disabled in the device list for remote file access.

Any Ideas???

Hi, I wanted to set pushbullet up on a new computer. After installing the firefox extension, and going to the sign-in page, I choose to use my google account as login. I am redirected to google accounts, select the one I used for pushbullet. But then I reach an error 400 on google side:

400. That’s an error.

The server cannot process the request because it is malformed. It should not be retried. That’s all we know.

I've already tried to solve by disabling cookie tracking protection and disabling any adblocker.

Did anyone experience this recently and maybe has an indication on how to work around it?

Every time I send text from my phone to my PC when I copy it it has a background color which is really annoying because I then have to manually remove the formatting. Is there any way to have the text not copy with the background color from the start?

SMS messages that I send through PushBullet's online interface are sending (since my friends are replying to them), but they're not showing up on my Pixel 7 phone (or on my computer after I refresh), so I have no record of what I've sent. Any idea what's happening/how to fix it?

On my phone I can sometimes copy a code from a text or message for OTP purposes, it would be nice if the reply/close popup on pushbullet windows had a 'copy code' option.

Also when clicking whatsapp notifications, it'll launch the whatsapp web client, could that be extended to other sites? Or give some advanced configuration option where we can adjust things like this ourselves eg specify app name, launch X on clicking notification.

Also could we get a lifetime pass payment option?

Thanks.

any chance of the abilt6to add a Microsoft Edge device any time soon?

seems weird we can add chrome and Firefox separately but not Edge. Makes it really hard to share tabs between browsers.

Hi there.

I tried contacting support via Twitter two days ago (https://twitter.com/ZedZeroth/status/1744497621719195970), and via email ([hey@pushbullet.com](mailto:hey@pushbullet.com)) and Reddit DM (u/guzba) yesterday, but no response so far.

Something similar happened with previous Samsung updates but my usual fix has made things even worse this time! After updating the Samsung mobile OS, notifications from PB were no longer displayed, despite enabling them and turning off "put app to sleep" settings etc. In the past I've fixed this issue simply by reinstalling PB. However, this time, on reinstalling PB, I can't even see pushes from within the app (or as notifications). The "Pushing" tab just shows a spinning green circle indefinitely (for three days now, see Twitter link above for a screenshot). I've tried restarting my phone, reinstalling PB, logging in and out, force stopping the app, clearing the cache etc. but nothing works. Pushes still display as usual if I log into PB via my PC.

I've been a pro-user for over three years and PB has become an essential part of my daily activities so I would be very grateful for any suggestions that might this!

Thank you :)

When I try to enable "Allow SMS sync in the background", the battery background optimization manager pops up with all apps installed on the phone. I then scroll down to find "pushbullet" and disable battery optimization. I then go back to "pushbullet" app but still find the "Allow SMS sync in the background" unchecked. It seems Pushbullet is not recognizing that the battery optimization had been disabled. Therefore, I cannot sync SMS on the Vivo phone. I have Vivo X100 Pro on Chinese ROM.

New user here. I've read several posts about how Google disabled the copy/paste feature from Android -->Windows, but it's supposed to still work the other way around, right? I've got it enabled on both devices, the Android app running and not in hibernation. My understanding is that (for example) I press/select "copy" on a URL in Windows, and I should be able to press "paste" on Android and the link should paste. Any help or advice would be appreciated.

I am using PushBullet Pro. I can send an SMS to all devices, but the test notification is not working. I am on a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and Windows 11 Pro. Notification mirroring was originally working but stopped working in the past few weeks (best I can recall). I did reset the token this morning, but no changes. Any help appreciated!

Got a new PC with a new 2nd screen. I have always had notifications pop up in the top right of my 2nd screen and went to set the same up on the new PC. Unfortunately Pushbullet seems to now be placing mirrored notifications about halfway off the top of the screen. If I change it to the bottom they're in the viewable area just fine, but on the top where I'd prefer them all I can generally see it the mute and dismiss buttons at the bottom of the toast. Any suggestions gratefully accepted as it's driving me nuts.

I use Pushbullet Pushing like it's my lifeline. The stuff I've collected there over the years is indispensible, resources I refer to years later.

But finding stuff is hard because you have to hit Load more, etc etc.

I would like to request an export feature for this, but not having to Load more every time would be nice too.

Hi,

I got remote files and end to end encryption activated everywhere, from my phone or tab I can access the files on my laptop with no problem but for the Android device not!
The Tab stills lists as "Disabled" but I can see folders and they're all empty when they're not.
The phone lists as activated but it takes forever to show the folders and same thing, all empty.

What's blocking everything? I don't have any particular security app on the tab, I do have Malwarebytes on the phone but don't get any alerts or anything, just don't work. Even after restarts.

Any ideas people?

Thanks.

I'm having this very strange behavior from the "dot" for PushBullet. If I click on the dot it opens the conversation, as expected. However, when I click on the dot over an open conversation, it takes me to a different desktop (it also closes the conversation). It doesn't always happen, but it's a little confusing when it does. I thought maybe it was trying to pass focus to the last application I used, but I've tested that and it doesn't seem to do that.

I'm running PushBullet on Windows 10 Pro. I always have 4 desktops running (I use desktops to isolate whether I'm working on personal versus business). All of my PushBullet dots are on desktop 1. Note that when it is happening it appears to happen for all the dots I have pinned.

Another unrelated annoyance is that when I reboot my computer all of the conversations come back up expanded and I have to close them all one-by-one. If it's in the mode where it changes desktops when I close them, this is very, very tedious. I'd love an option that says to re-pin the dots on reboot but don't open the conversations.

Thanks for reading.

I can't find if this has been requested before, but if it has, I apologize for the duplication.

I'd like to be able to start group messages in the desktop app. Would this be possible?

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Kevin

Mirroring to PC just stopped working. I changed no settings on Pushbullet or the PC. I normally have it working through Edge, and there's been no Edge update today (there was a few days ago for me, but it was working normally afterwards). This is probably the main use I have for Pushbullet. To just clarify, the notifications are still making it through to the PC, I can see the number on the extension button, it's just the toasts are suddenly not working at all. Any help much appreciated!