VoxCommando

Help and Support (Using VoxCommando) => Other Plugins => Topic started by: jitterjames on January 30, 2012, 07:05:16 PM

Title: Growl plugin
Post by: jitterjames on January 30, 2012, 07:05:16 PM

I don't know if anyone is using Growl for Windows but I have created a plugin that allows us to send notifications to Growl from VoxCommando.

Growl can then show notifications on your PC, but it can also send Push notifications to Prowl on your iPod/iPhone

Here's the Growl Homepage: http://www.growlforwindows.com

unzipped the attached into your VC\plugins folder and then enable in options and restart.

I have not tested it too extensively so any feedback is most welcome.

Title: Re: Growl plugin
Post by: xtermin8r on January 30, 2012, 09:40:48 PM

i have tested the plugin, its working great i have received the notification on my iphone with prowl and boxcar apps.

thank you.

Title: Re: Growl plugin
Post by: claymic on May 21, 2013, 11:14:14 PM

Hi
How exactly works Growl ? Its a nice thing to have, i can put this app to not only show messages but open my interface in the ipad. But i am a little lost with the setup in Growl, for now i get the Prowl but i dont know how to setup it to work.
Thanks

Title: Re: Growl plugin
Post by: jitterjames on May 22, 2013, 10:59:37 AM

Did you install growl on your computer?

Title: Re: Growl plugin
Post by: jitterjames on May 22, 2013, 11:01:33 AM

actually, if I remember correctly, you can send emails to Prowl in order to generate a notification.  Maybe this is a better way to send from VC to Prowl, without the need for Growl.

edit:  take a look here...
http://www.prowlapp.com/prowlmail.php

Title: Re: Growl plugin
Post by: claymic on May 23, 2013, 07:04:29 AM

I will try, thanks James.

Title: Re: Growl plugin
Post by: StrikemanXL on January 05, 2014, 11:45:10 AM

I would just like to say this plugin works perfect as of VC 1.1.8.4 :) but I would like to send a rss feed from growl to VC To get a breaking news tts but when growl sends the rss notification over UDP I get this in VC log

05/01/2014 15:15:18   239   received udp command:

   
05/01/2014 15:34:05   502   received udp command:

   % New Feed ItemBBC World News FeedFlooding risk remains for parts of UKBBC World News Feed����;�TD�o,�Q
05/01/2014 15:34:05   502   action repeat set to: 1
05/01/2014 15:34:05   502   Action: 

    % New Feed ItemBBC World News FeedFlooding risk remains for parts of UKBBC World News Feed����;�TD�o,�Q -
05/01/2014 15:34:05   502   [action]

    % New Feed ItemBBC World News FeedFlooding risk remains for parts of UKBBC World News Feed����;�TD�o,�Q:

It does not generate an event for example VC event Growl , BBC World News Feed, Flooding risk remains for parts of UK
Any ideas what to do with it guys?

Title: Re: Growl plugin
Post by: jitterjames on January 05, 2014, 01:11:38 PM

How exactly are you sending the UDP message?

Forgive me but it has been ages since I have used Growl so I don't really remember how it works.

Generally if you want to send an event to VC through UDP the string you should send will look something like this:

Code: [Select]

event&&event.name&&payload1&&payload2

Title: Re: Growl plugin
Post by: jitterjames on January 05, 2014, 01:12:45 PM

Also, it might be better to have VC just go and read the rss feed itself...

Title: Re: Growl plugin
Post by: StrikemanXL on January 05, 2014, 04:56:05 PM

Well I was just playing around with growl and I liked the osd popup and It was easy to set it up to get rss feed and notifications from verious places/devices. But I probably need to try hard with VC.....

Growl has a basic network forwarder just input name , hostname , port , password , port , format udp or gntp

As it turns out EG has a proper forwarder plugin for growl so Im sending It there first = Main.GrowlForwarder.NotifyPro.Ping (u'Ping', u'Test notification') then broadcast to VC {eg.event.payload}