Cockpit Notifications

This repository manages a simple JSON feed for global notifications displayed in the Cockpit Panel or related apps.

📢 Notification Format

Each notification entry contains:

• id: Unique integer
• title: Short headline
• message: Main body text
• timestamp: ISO 8601 formatted date/time
• icon: Bootstrap icon class (e.g. bi-code-slash, bi-telegram)
• url: Link users can follow (optional)

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🧾 Example JSON

{
  "notifications": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "CP2 Under Development",
      "message": "Cockpit v2 is under development.",
      "timestamp": "2023-07-12T15:30:00Z",
      "icon": "bi-code-slash",
      "url": "https://cockpit.lol/"
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "title": "Contact @ianwoneill",
      "message": "Contact @ianwoneill for pre-orders.",
      "timestamp": "2023-07-11T09:15:00Z",
      "icon": "bi-telegram",
      "url": "https://t.me/ianwoneill"
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "title": "Buy me a Coffee",
      "message": "Buy me a drink: Cashapp £ianwoneill",
      "timestamp": "2023-07-10T18:45:00Z",
      "icon": "bi-cup-hot-fill",
      "url": "https://cash.app/ianwoneill"
    }
  ]
}

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🛠 Adding a New Notification

1. Increment the id by 1.
2. Use a short, descriptive title.
3. Keep message concise (ideally under 150 characters).
4. Format the timestamp in UTC ISO format.
5. Use Bootstrap Icons for icon.
6. Make sure URLs are valid and begin with https://.

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🔁 Updating

Once updated:

git add notifications.json
git commit -m "Add new notification: [title]"
git push

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🔔 Use Case

This JSON can be polled by your apps or panels to show live announcements, update notices, or promo alerts.

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Want to automate expiration of old messages or limit to N recent ones? You can build a simple script or backend cron job to trim the list automatically.