In order to receive direct push notifications on your phone, you need an app installed on your device that is configured to listen for notification events. Since Series Reminder does not maintain its own custom mobile app, we integrate with Pushover to handle instant smartphone alerting.
Pushover is a lightweight, easy-to-use application designed specifically to receive push notification events and alert you. They offer native clients for Android, iPhone & iPad, and Desktop. You can read more about their platform and service on their official blog and help pages.
Series Reminder Alerts via Pushover
Series Reminder periodically checks your watchlist notification preferences throughout the day to calculate active alerts. Your push preferences are tied directly to your watchlist. For example, if you set a show to "Season Premiere" alerts, that rule applies to both your email notifications and your Pushover notifications.
However, you can toggle email notifications and mobile push notifications on and off completely independently. This means you can comfortably disable daily emails entirely and receive 100% of your alerts via Pushover push notifications instead, acting as a clean mobile experience.
Connecting Pushover (Step-by-Step)
Before proceeding, please note that the Pushover app itself is not free. After a 30-day free trial, Pushover requires a one-time cost of $4.99 for a lifetime license on your chosen platform. This fee goes entirely to Pushover—I do not make any commission or referral revenue from it. I personally use Pushover daily and believe it is well worth the one-time price.
If you are comfortable with this, configuring Pushover to connect with Series Reminder takes less than five minutes:
- Step 1: Create a personal account on the Pushover website.
- Step 2: Download and install the Pushover client on your mobile device. Authenticate with your newly created Pushover username and password to activate your 30-day free trial on that device.
- Step 3: Head over to our dedicated Pushover Integration page and click Connect Pushover. This will redirect you to the Pushover portal to securely verify and link your subscription to Series Reminder. (Tip: Logging into pushover.net in your browser before clicking this button makes the authorization instant).
- Step 4: Ensure your timezone is configured on your user profile page. Our default morning push alerts are sent between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM based on your selected timezone, ensuring you are never woken up by notification alerts in the middle of the night.
Series Reminder Integration Settings
Once connected, you can customize your push alert behaviors directly on our Pushover Integration configuration page:
- Default Alert Sound: Choose the custom sound that plays on your phone when a Series Reminder alert arrives (including silent or vibration-only options). You can preview standard Pushover sounds on their sounds list API.
- Timezone Configuration: Over 95% of our notifications are processed and sent shortly after 8:00 AM in your selected timezone. Note: If you are a Premium subscriber, you can also customize individual delivery hours and set day offsets on a per-series basis.
Configuring the Pushover App
The Pushover mobile app has several native options located under the triple-dot settings menu in the top-right corner of the screen to help you customize your mobile experience:
- Do Not Disturb (DND): Allows you to pause notification triggers entirely. Alerts will still accumulate inside your mobile inbox, but your device will not vibrate or make sounds.
- Quiet Hours: Set specific hours of the day (such as work hours or sleeping hours) where incoming alerts will display silently in your notification tray without sound or vibration.
- Vibration Patterns: Customize the vibration frequency and length for incoming notifications within the app settings.
- Advanced Retention: Configure how many historical alerts you want to retain on your device and set automatic cleanup timelines.
- Multiple Devices: Pushover supports syncing alerts across multiple physical devices simultaneously. When connecting your account, you can choose to target specific registered devices or push to all of them at once.
If you have any questions about connecting your phone or adjusting your push settings, please contact me and I will be happy to assist!