{"id":142,"date":"2014-04-04T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2025-11-04T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:39:27","slug":"boxcar-2-support-added-old-version-will-be-deactivated-and-friendly-names-for-alert-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptimerobot.com\/blog\/boxcar-2-support-added-old-version-will-be-deactivated-and-friendly-names-for-alert-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxcar 2 Support Added (Old Version Will Be Deactivated) And Friendly Names For Alert Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Uptime Robot<\/strong> is already integrated with the free and easy-to-use Boxcar app for sending iOS push messages.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, the app has a new version, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/boxcar.io\/client\">Boxcar 2<\/a><\/strong>, and the old version will be inactive in the next weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uptime Robot<\/strong> now supports Boxcar 2 and &#8220;<strong>any alert contacts for the older version will be deactivated on 11 April 2014 (7 days later)<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In order to keep getting iOS push messages, please make sure that you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>install the <a href=\"http:\/\/boxcar.io\/client\">Boxcar 2 app<\/a>\u00a0(note that the user-pass in the old Boxcar app is no longer valid, a new account shall be created in Boxcar 2)<\/li>\n<li>define its &#8220;Access Token&#8221; as an alert contact<\/li>\n<li>attach this alert contact to the monitors preferred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Friendly Names For Alert Contacts<\/h3>\n<p>With this update, we have added the ability to define friendly names for alert contacts so that it&#8217;ll become much easier to distinguish them from each other.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uptime Robot is already integrated with the free and easy-to-use Boxcar app for sending iOS push messages. 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