Alerts and notifications — myNetWorking manual

When a service gets the “DOWN” status, myNetWorking can show a system notification, play a sound and repeat the alarm until you acknowledge it. You set up alarms separately for each service.

Alarm settings of a service

Open the service and find the Alerts section:

Switch or field	Default	What it does
Show notification	on	a notification when the service goes down and when it comes back
Play sound	on	a sound with the outage and recovery notifications; unavailable when notifications are turned off
Repeat alarm until acknowledged	on	the outage notification keeps coming back until you acknowledge it; unavailable when notifications are turned off
Alarm repeat interval (seconds)	60	how often the alarm comes back, in seconds; at least 5; visible when notifications and repeating are turned on

When repeating is turned off, each outage produces a single notification.

Notification texts

Event	Title	Text
service outage	⚠️ NAS is down	Cannot connect to 192.168.1.50:445. Internet connection is working.
service recovery	✅ NAS is back online	Connection to 192.168.1.50:445 restored.
no Internet	📡 No Internet access	This device has no Internet connection — the monitored services are not blamed for an outage meanwhile.
Internet back	✅ Internet is back	The Internet connection has been restored.

Notifications are in the app’s language. You’ll find the duration of an outage in the incident and in the log, not in the notification. You turn on the Internet notifications in the settings — they are described in the Internet check chapter.

Repeating alarm

The alarm starts when the service gets the “DOWN” status, if Show notification and Repeat alarm until acknowledged are both turned on. The outage notification then comes back at the set interval — with sound, if sound is turned on.

The alarm ends when:

you acknowledge it with the Acknowledge alarm bell;
the service comes back up;
the service changes to a status other than “DOWN”, e.g. “No network”;
you pause or delete the service;
you quit the app.

If you quit the app during an outage and start it again while the service is still down, an unacknowledged alarm resumes, together with the bell. The same happens when a service gets the “DOWN” status again after a “No network” period.

Acknowledging an alarm

Find the service with the active alarm. Next to its status in the list, there is a red crossed-out bell. In the icons view, the bell is in the top-left corner of the tile.
Click the Acknowledge alarm bell.

The bell disappears and the alarm goes quiet. The service still has the “DOWN” status, and the incident continues. The acknowledgement is remembered; it is reset when the service comes back up or goes down again.

Important: Acknowledge incident on the Incidents tab is something else — it only marks the incident as reviewed and does not stop the alarm.

You can’t acknowledge an alarm from the notification, because notifications have no buttons. Clicking a notification opens the app (on Linux and Windows, it brings the app window to the front).

Notifications on different systems

System	Notifications	Notes
macOS	yes	Notification Center; the app asks for permission at first launch
iPhone, iPad	yes	also while the app is open; in the background only when iOS runs a check
Android	yes	Android 13+ asks for permission; “Alerts” and “Alerts (silent)” channels
Linux	yes	through the desktop notification service; outages have the highest priority
Windows	yes	Windows notification center; no permission prompt; outages play the reminder sound

Linux: outage notifications have the highest, critical priority, so in GNOME and KDE they usually stay on screen until you dismiss them. The sound comes from the desktop sound theme and plays wherever the notification service supports sound. Without a notification service, the app keeps monitoring, just without notifications.
Android: the notification channel names are always in English. If alarms don’t arrive, check the “Alerts” channel in the app’s system settings.
Windows: an outage plays the Windows reminder sound, which stands out from ordinary notifications; recoveries and the Internet notifications play the default notification sound. These are ordinary notifications: the banner disappears after a few seconds, and the notification stays in the notification center. Clicking a notification brings the window back, even from the system tray, and starts the app if it has been quit. In Do not disturb mode, notifications only go to the notification center, without a banner or sound. You can turn them off in the Windows settings (Settings → System → Notifications) — the app then keeps monitoring, just without notifications.

New in 1.1.0: system notifications on Linux and Windows.

One notification per service

Each service has a single notification slot. A new alarm, its repetitions and the recovery notification replace the previous notification of the same service, so the notification list doesn’t fill up. The Internet notifications have their own slot.

All notifications are generated on your device. The app does not send alarms by email, by SMS or through a notification server.