FR: Enable ImmichFrame to be a notification surface

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
12/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
api, frontend

Research direction

The issue proposes a new event-submission endpoint on ImmichFrame's WebApi, with each display receiving events and rendering a message or an iframe, but it names no existing files, tests or entry points. Start by reading the eight-comment thread for any maintainer decision on scope and transport, since none is recorded here. Done would mean an agreed design for the endpoint, the event format and the dismiss behaviour, not a finished implementation.

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Description

enhancement
Description

I've been loving using ImmichFrame for different displays around the house. It's exactly what I was looking for. Now I'd like to take it up a little and make it even more useful - by integrating notifications from my other devices into the frame.

The idea: I'd like to be able to post notifications to the ImmichFrame API and have them appear on one or more devices. These notifications could be simple alerts ("someone's at the front door") or more complex versions of the same - like showing a live video of the front door camera.

Use Case

Makes my ImmichFrame devices even more valuable around the home - they can provide information about what's going on in the home when alerts happen and replace scenarios where I've used other home hub devices in the past.

Details

I'd want to keep the logic as simple as possible in ImmichFrame so that this project doesn't need to scale to support everything anyone imagines. The basic idea would be that ImmichFrame's WebApi would have a new API that could be used to submit an event, and then each device would receive those events and either render a simple message or host an IFrame that contains a more complex view.

These alerts would auto-dismiss after a timeout or through some other user interaction (e.g. clicking the dismiss button).

Pre-Submission Checklist
  • This is a feature request and not a bug report

  • I have checked for related issues and checked the documentation

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