# Manually push notification from App to Device

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/manually-push-notification-from-app-to-device/41660>\
**Category:** ionic-v1\
**Created:** [January 20, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/manually-push-notification-from-app-to-device/41660 "2016-01-20T12:06:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![amaccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/amaccann/32/71933_2.png) [@amaccann](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/amaccann)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/manually-push-notification-from-app-to-device/41660/1 "2016-01-20T12:06:38Z")

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_(Given how generic and common the terms ‘Push Notification’ are, I’ve got a lot of false positives in searching, so forgive me if this is an obvious / already-answered question.)_

Our Ionic App already uses `$ionicPush` Push Notifications to receive important updates from our servers; however, there are some small cases where we’d like to send a Notification directly from the JS app straight out to the Devices’ notification tray. Is this possible with Ionic, or would we need a separate Cordova plugin that people might know of?

Is there a method in `$ionicPush` or similar that allows you to send a Notification from the Ionic JS app directly? Specifically, we have a service that runs even when the App is sent to the background (it hits an API end-point with GPS data), and would like to ping a Notification to the device tray if & when it fails in the background. Ideally, we’d want to avoid having to push upstream, as this would seem needless.

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**Author:** ![amaccann](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/amaccann/32/71933_2.png) [@amaccann](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/amaccann)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2016, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/manually-push-notification-from-app-to-device/41660/2 "2016-01-20T12:19:29Z")

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Whoops, not five minutes after asking the question, I find the answer [http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/localNotification/](http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/localNotification/) myself haha. Well, if anyone has any other suggestions or solutions, feel free to pass them on, but looks like the above is what I’m looking for! 😊