Notifications

Alerts are low-volume by design — only listings worth acting on (ALERT and WATCH) ever get pushed. Here's how notifications work.

The channels

Hardware Hunter can reach you on:

• Email — from [email protected] (reply-to [email protected])
• Telegram — link it from Account → Telegram (the connect button generates the correct deep link to the bot)
• Discord, Slack, Pushover, ntfy — via webhook or Apprise-style URL

Set channels up in Account → Notification Channels: add a channel, then hit Test to confirm it actually arrives before you rely on it.

What each plan gets

• Free: a daily email digest of the best matches. No instant alerts — not even instant email. The digest is being rolled out in stages, so if your account isn't receiving one yet, that's rollout order, not a bug.
• Pro and Lifetime: instant alerts on your connected channels (Telegram, Discord, Slack, Pushover, ntfy) plus email, pushed as matches clear your bar.

The digest goes out at 09:00 (account timezone, defaulting to UTC if none is set), Free tier only.

Nudge emails

Beyond alerts, Hardware Hunter occasionally sends short nudge emails:

• A hunt that's gone quiet for a while
• A hunt you set up but that has no results yet
• A scan window that was missed

These are rare and meant to save you from checking the dashboard manually.

Known limits

• ntfy is ntfy.sh only for now — self-hosted ntfy servers aren't supported yet.
• No quiet hours. You can't schedule when alerts fire. Pausing a hunt is the workaround.

If alerts aren't arriving

Start with the channel Test button in Account → Notification Channels, then check spam (email comes from [email protected]), then confirm the hunt is active. Full troubleshooting lives on the Troubleshooting page.