notify-push
A general purpose popup notifier sender/receiver for using WebSockets (via Pusher).
Overview
notify-push
employs a Receiver and Sender(s) to push messages from the Sender(s) to the Receiver.
Example Use Case:
You have irssi
set up in a screen
on a remote machine and you want to be notified on your laptop/desktop whenever your name gets highlighted.
Disclaimer
Installation
Create Pusher App
Create an App on Pusher named notify-push. The free account should be plenty.
Install notify-push
For the Receiver machine and the Sender machine(s):
$ gem install notify-push
Or, from source:
$ git clone https://github.com/eriknomitch/notify-push.git
$ cd notify-push
$ bundle install
$ rake install
Create & Distribute Configuration File
Next, create a configuration file with your Pusher App's credentials (found on your Pusher App's page under App Credentials) and distribute it to each machine (Receiver and Sender(s)).
Location: ~/.notify-pushrc
Example
pusher:
key: a1a2a3b1b2b3c1c2c3d1
secret: a1a2a3b1b2b3c1c3c1d1
app_id: 12345
Receiver
Usage
Invoke the Receiver with:
$ notify-push receive
TODO: There's a .plist launchd file in there but it's not ready.
Sender
Usage
$ notify-push send <message> [title]
Alternatively, you can curl
or use any Pusher tool to send on messages to your notify-push
app on channel "notifications"
with data:
message: The message to notify you with in the notifier popup (REQUIRED)
title: The title of the notifier popup (Optional)