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Naarad Subscription Instruction

Narada (Sanskrit: नारद, IAST: Nārada), or Narada Muni, is a sage-divinity, famous in Hindu traditions as a travelling musician and storyteller, who carries news and enlightening wisdom (source). Our naarad delivers news (noticies) to the KGP community.

Table of Contents

User Registration

  1. Visit Naarad Signup page
  2. You will be prompted to enter your institute email
  3. Once email is entered, you will receive a verification OTP on the provided email
  4. Enter the OTP in the available field and click the Verify button
  5. After a while, you will then receive a prompt on the screen saying Credentials sent to your institute email
  6. Check your institute email for credentials and make sure to keep them safe for future use
  7. Follow through webapp user login step

Tip

It is recommended to change the auto-generated password.

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Webapp

User Login

  1. After following all the steps for registering a user on naarad you will be redirected to Naarad Login page
  2. You will be prompted to enter username and password, enter those which you just received on your institute email
  3. Finally, press the login button, now you are authorised to access naarad and subscribe to limited topics

Configuring Notification

Make sure to grant the webapp notification permission.

Enabling WebPush

In order to receive notifications even if the webapp's tab is closed, follow the steps below:

  1. Click on Settings button on the left panel
  2. Enable Background Notifications (4th option from top)

Tip

To receive seamless real-time notifications, following configurations are recommended:

  1. Make sure the Minimum Priority is set to Any Priority, in order to not miss any notification
  2. Make sure the Delete Notifications is set to Never, in order to store old notifications

Subscribing to MFTP

Automatic

After completing Naarad User Login, visit https://naarad.metakgp.org/kgp-mftp and you will be automatically subscribed to MFTP aka CDC Noticeboard.

Manual

If the automatic method doesn't work, then you can do it manually as described below:

  1. Click on + Subscribe to topic button on the left panel
  2. Enter kgp-mftp in the text box and click Subscrbe button
  3. In case you were not logged in, it will require for credentials, enter the ones you received during user registration

Mobile Application (Android, iOS)

Download NTFY application

Subscribing to MFTP

  1. Make sure to click Enable Now for the banner regarding Switching to WebSockets...
  2. Click on + icon in bottom right corner
  3. Enter topic name as: kgp-mftp
  4. Check Use another server
  5. Replace https://ntfy.sh with https://naarad.metakgp.org
  6. Press the Subscribe button
  7. It will now prompt you to Login, enter the credentials received during user registration
  8. Click the Login button, you will be taken to the topic page

Configuring the topic

  1. Once you subscribe to the topic, then follow then configure the settings as below
  2. Click on the three dots on top-right corner and click on Subscription Settings
  3. Configure the settings as shown in the second image below

Downloading Attachment

Attachment URLs are protected by heimdall. Heimdall sessions are created when you authorise via your institute email, as done during steps 2,3,4 while registering a user. Hence, it is not possible to directly dwonlaod the attachments via the mobile application, while, the process for the same on webapp is straightforward. Follow the steps below to download the attachment via your mobile devices.

  1. Tap on the attachment banner
  2. A context-menu will appear, tap on Copy URL. You will receive a toast message, saying URL copied to clipboard
  3. Open your choice of browser on your mobile device and paste the copied URL
  4. You will be redirected to heimdall. Authorise with your institute email as done during the steps 2,3,4 while registering a user. This is a one time step
  5. The pdf will be downloaded locally

Disabling Battery Optimisations

In order to receive unrestricted real-time notifications on the mobile applications, follow the steps below for your specifc device(s).

Tip

It is also recommended to disable "Battery Saver" to not have any unwanted delay.

iOS

Enable Background App Refresh for the ntfy app on both Wifi & mobile data.

Note

Observe the following differences before watching the video:

  • Make sure the setting is enabled for both Wifi & Mobile Data
  • Make sure it is enabled for NTFY app
  • If you don't find the setting as shown in the video, search for a similar setting for your version of iOS

Here's the general tutorial to Turn On Background App Refresh in iOS.

Android

Disable Battery Optimisation for the ntfy app.

Warning

This particular setting will differ from device to device. The place it is located at, the way it is written, everything might differ slightly from one vendor to another vendor. So make sure:

  • When you search on the web, you provide your device model - for better results
  • Search for a similar setting on your own for your device manually

Here are the general tutorials, to unrestrict background app activity:

Note

Make sure you follow both the ways and see that both the methods are in sync (have the same thing - Unrestricted Battery Usage)