¶ Notifications tab
The notifications tab is full with options related to the notification monitor.
Note: Changes to colors on this tab DO NOT affect the RFY, AFA or AI pages.
¶ Enable Notifications & Assisted Page Loads
The very first option is to enable the Notification Monitor system. Doing so will also enable the assisted page loads system, which will compensate for the reduced manual browsing when using the Notifications Monitor.
¶ Connection Mode
As concurrent WebSocket connections are limited, you can decide if you want the WebSocket connection to be handled (held) by the Master Monitor tab itself, or the service worker. The service worker is known to be more resilient against mobile device putting apps to sleep, but it will maintain an active connection regardless if you have a notification monitor tab open or not.
If this all sounds confusing to you, leave it in Tab mode :)
¶ Hide Notifications matching Hide Keywords list
Will apply your hide keywords list to the items coming in the notification monitor. Items matching a hide keywords will not be displayed (unless they also match a highlight keywords, which will take priority).
¶ Hide Gold-tier Notifications for Silver-tier user
If you are a silver tier vine member, this option will hide items which are detected as being for Gold Members only. If you don't activate this option, you will see the items, but the See Details button will be replaced with “Gold member only”.
¶ Tax rate modifier
Multiply the ETV value by the tax rate modifier to display the estimated value you would have to pay for the item.
¶ Sound cooldown
The notification monitor can make sounds every time an item comes in. The sound cooldown will put a minimum delay between 2 sounds, to avoid being overwhelmed by sounds during rapid firing drops.
¶ Display on Screen Notifications
Will display small toaster-style notifications on the bottom right corner of vine page. These are not very smart and don't offer any filtering capacity. This feature will likely be removed in the future.
¶ Display thumbnail
Will display a miniature image of the product
¶ Sound
Will play a sound when a new notification is displayed
¶ Volume
How loud the sound, if any, should play.
¶ Notification Monitor
Open a dedicated tab where notifications will appear and not vanish after 60 seconds.
¶ Bump 0 ETV notifications to the top of the list
If the item is detected to have a 0.00$/€ Estimated Tax Value (ETV), it will bring it back to the top of the list.
Note: this will cause items to shift position, even when using placeholders for the “no shift grid” mode.
¶ Display placeholders to keep items from shifting
Also known as the “No Shift Grid”, this option will use placeholders (dummy tiles) to ensure the existing items from the grid do not shift when a new item is added.
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¶ Pause Feed when mouseover See Details button
Will pause the feed and buffer incoming items when your mouse cursor if hovering the See Details button area. Will resume the feed when the mouse cursor leave the area.
¶ Show red overlay when paused
Will make the entire screen slightly red to indicate when the feed is paused.
¶ Hiding a single item will add that item to the hidden items list
When enabled, clicking the hide icon for an item in the Notifications Monitor will also add the item to your global hidden items list (so it will appear in the Hidden tab/lists).
¶ Enable passive clears with undo countdown
This is enabled by default. Clearing items will show an undo button that auto-confirms after 5 seconds.
When disabled, a traditional confirmation dialog will appear.
¶ List view (mobile view)
Will display items in a way that is more suitable for mobile view (1 item per line). Made to go along one of the Mobile Stylesheets under the Style tab.
Note: Will ignore tile sizing, placeholder, etc.
¶ (premium) Display the Amazon Price in the toolbar
Display the Amazon Price in the toolbar when available. This may take a few seconds to become visible.
¶ (premium) Thumbnail carousel
Display a carousel of thumbnails when multiple images are available.
¶ Hide notification with duplicate images
Will keep track of the notification thumbnail addresses and will hide new items for which the same thumbnail is already present in the notification monitor. Useful to avoid multiple duplicates of the same items published multiple times under the same ASIN.
Note: If the initial item goes Unavailable, it will not become available again if another duplicate items is found (and hidden)
¶ Keep the screen awake while the monitor is in the foreground.
Uses the browser WakeLock API to keep the screen awake while the monitor is in the foreground.
¶ Auto-clear unavailable items on first load
When enabled, the monitor will automatically clear unavailable items after the first load.
¶ See Details button behavior (Monitor V3)
This will determine what happens when you click See Details in the notification monitor. There are 2 modes:
¶ Mode: Open in place
Will simply let Amazon Vine handle the click and open the modal window on the same page. Keep in mind that by default, Vine redirects the page after a successful order, which would mean you would lose the content of the notification monitor.
Note that Firefox and certain other browsers struggle to handle multiple items and has shown to be unreliable where the See Details buttons will often just stop working.
¶ Prevent page unload (will show a popup)
To prevent a successful order from redirecting the page, VH can monitor the unload event and request the browser to prevent it. For security reasons, most browsers will show some form of confirmation popup to confirm what your intent is. This will allow you to click something to tell the browser you do not want the page to be redirected, or reloaded, and will keep you on the same page.
Blocking the redirection has no impact on your order being placed or not.
Note that this option works even if you selected the Open in tab mode, but is designed with Open in place in mind.
On successful ordering, Vine will redirect the page. This option shows a confirmation popup that you can cancel to stay on the monitor page.
¶ Mode: Open in new tab
This mode will block Amazon from handling the click and open a new tab when you click “See Details”, where VH will attempt to force a See Details window to open. For some reasons, this method seems a lot more reliable. This will not work in Monitor Lite.
¶ Match Highlight Keywords
Define how to render an item when it matches one of the highlighted keywords.
¶ Ignore 0 ETV coloring when highlight match
Will not apply the 0 ETV color when the item is a highlight match.
¶ Ignore unknown ETV when highlight match
Will not apply unknown ETV color when the item is a highlight match.
¶ Zero ETV
Define the color and sound of how to render an item which is detected as a 0.00$/€ Estimated Tax Value (ETV).
¶ Unknown ETV
Define how to render an item which has no known ETV value.
¶ RFY
Define how to render an item which loaded from your RFY.
¶ Reload RY page when items are dropping.
When new items are dropping, the notification monitor will send a message to RFY tabs (if any are open) to reload themselves. The reloads are spaced out between 2 and 4 minutes.
¶ Regular notifications
Define how to render a regular notification which does not match any of the above special cases.
¶ Assisted Page Loads
As users of VH got in the habit of leaving the notification monitor open and not browsing listing page, an assisted page loads system was implemented, which will request from the server which page is most needed to be loaded and browse that page.
¶ Active time range
Limits assisted loading to a time range. Must be at least 8 hours.
¶ Interval to check during active time range
Will assist you in loading pages when the notifications monitor is active. This allows you to define the intervals between assisted loads. The interval will be picked at random between the selected range.
¶ When items are dropping
While new items are being detected, the assisted load uses this more aggressive interval (in seconds). After 5 minutes with no new items, it switches back to the normal interval above.
¶ RFY assisted load interval
Interval (in minutes) between assisted loads when the monitor is active. A random value within the selected range is used each time. Use together with Reload RFY when items arrive for RFY-focused assisted loading.
¶ Misc
¶ Reduce system notifications
Will not display 'ETV updated' and 'Settings saved' as on-screen notifications.
¶ BETA
Those features sometime works, sometimes don't. There is no risk to try them, but they may not be reliable.
¶ Push notifications for all AFA items
Send push notifications when a new item from AFA is detected.
Note that Firefox for android suspend the browser process when not in foreground (active) so this will not work if the browser is in the background.
¶ Push notifications when KW match
When a highlight keyword match, send a push notification through the browser.
Note that Firefox for android suspend the browser process when not in foreground (active) so this will not work if the browser is in the background.
¶ Read out notifications
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Enable read notifications out loud
Configure which voice to use when reading notifications out loud after the alert sound.
