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+### DISCLAIMER: This is a third party addition to dockcheck - best effort testing.
+#
+# Copy/rename this file to notify.sh to enable the notification snippet.
+# Required receiving services must already be set up.
+# Modify to fit your setup - set AppriseURL to your Apprise ip/domain.
+
+send_notification() {
+Updates=("$@")
+UpdToString=$( printf "%s\n" "${Updates[@]}" )
+FromHost=$(hostname)
+AppriseURL="http://apprise.mydomain.tld:1234/notify/apprise"
+
+printf "\nSending Apprise notification\n"
+
+MessageTitle="$FromHost - updates available."
+# Setting the MessageBody variable here.
+read -d '\n' MessageBody << EOF
+Containers on $FromHost with updates available:
+
+$UpdToString
+
+EOF
+
+curl -X POST -F "title=$MessageTitle" -F "body=$MessageBody" -F "tags=all" $AppriseURL
+}
+
+
+# If you run apprise bare metal on the same machine as dockcheck
+# you can just comment out the AppriseURL and swap the curl line
+# with something ike this:
+#
+# apprise -vv -t "$MessageTitle" -b "$MessageBody" \
+#    'mailto://myemail:mypass@gmail.com' \
+#    'pbul://o.gn5kj6nfhv736I7jC3cj3QLRiyhgl98b'