I have struggled with the fact that the notifications in the openhab app is way to subtle and easy to miss. This is a big problem when using it to notify when an alarm has gone off! I don’t know if you guys have figured out a better solutuion (my dream solution would be a phone service calling me up (and if I don’t answer then continue to the next number in a list) and telling me what happened, but I can’t seem to figure out how to do that… Any tips?). What I did come up with was to use Tasker.
I start with creating a rule in OpenHAB that pushes a notification to the phone with a keyword, in my case “Alarm!”.
In Tasker I created a Profile that triggered on Event->UI->Notification. I select Openhab as owner app and my keyword Alarm! with * as a wildcard after (so “Alarm!*” in total) in the Text-field. I can then use tasker to play all sorts of beeping, buzzing and speaking to notify me that something bad has happened! Works fairly well I think!