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xmpp and iphone (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Does anyone here run a small family XMPP (Prosody) server with iPhone clients? How did you set up APNs and push notifications — did you self‑host a push proxy (fpush/momak/etc.) or use an external service? Any tips or config snippets appreciated.

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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I use snikket and it works ok with iPhone, but not great.

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    • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    I run a prosody server and have a couple of users who run Monal, and notifications work reliably for us!

    I made sure to follow the considerations for server admins and it's been ok.

    Regarding the push service: unless you deploy your own version of the app, it's not possible to self-host your own push service. The flow looks like this:

    XMPP server -> Monal pushserver -> Apple pushserver -> Device

    Apple only allows the developer of the app to send notifications to their push server. They enforce this by giving the app developer a key specific to their app.

    The linkage between XMPP server and Monal pushserver gets set up by Monal: when it connects to the XMPP server, it instructs it to send messages while it is offline to the Monal pushserver.

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I ran prosody server and used Siskin IM as a client, it worked pretty well. But as others mentioned, since this is Apple, the client developer has to run a push server, no background processes and long-polling allowed. Some other XMPP clients (Secret Messenger I think) did not have that set up and do not have notifications.

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