Indigo Domotics

anyone know how to post a notification from an indigo action using the notification center interface in Mac OS X?

for certain categories of things like battery warnings, i would like to put a notification somewhere where it will persist until cleared as opposed to just logging or sending email. notification center seems well-suited for this.

i should have searched a bit more as this is much simpler than i expected. for simple notification (in Mavericks), you can use a simple applescript thusly:

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 display notification "hello from indigo!" with title "A demo notification from the Indigo Mac Application"

maybe at some point, it will be possible to respond or react to a notification in more sophisticated ways in the next version of mac os x. example: display a notification saying "Iron was left on" with a button to turn it off, though i suspect the API and the work involved with hooking up Indigo to handle this might be much more complex. for now, this this works and is nice and simple.

Good find! I'm going to play with this a bit to figure out how to include variable values in the notification.

Oh, just for those who run Indigo on a separate machine, be aware that the notification only shows up on the machine that is actually running Indigo. It doesn't show up on a machine running the Indigo client.

Yes, good find! Works well on the host machine. I had hoped that the alert would promulgate to all of the devices linked to that iCloud account, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Thanks for sharing!
Dave

You can also use the Growl plugin - Growl puts notifications in the notification center and can do network notifications and iOS notifications.

Can you post an example using growl.

Just use the Notification Actions->Growl Notify action. If you have Growl installed and configured correctly the notification will show up.