Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
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Re: Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
#2Is there an equivalent of udev on Mac OS so I don't have to run a cronjob to check the battery percentage all the time? I know how to get the percentage from ioreg but i'd be nice to be able to just listen for that api call like udev does.
Re: Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
#3Nice idea! But why go all the way with the python venv etc? Just using curl + GCM would seem quite sufficient.
(oh, and: don't you need some app installed either way for receiving the notifications on your phone?
Re: Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
#4Nice idea! But why go all the way with the python venv etc? Just using curl + GCM would seem quite sufficient. (oh, and: don't you need some app installed either way for receiving the notifications on your phone?
You'll have to use the Pushbullet app to receive these notifications.
Re: Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
#5Nice idea! But why go all the way with the python venv etc? Just using curl + GCM would seem quite sufficient. (oh, and: don't you need some app installed either way for receiving the notifications on your phone?
That's correct. Pushbullet does not have any complicated session handshake and management so just a simple request with predefined headers and content will suffice. I use it this way with logstash http output.
Re: Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
#6This seems like a rather unusual use-case. If I'm leaving my laptop on for a long time, it will either be plugged in or I'll be working on it. In the former case it won't run out of battery, and in the latter case I know how much power is remaining.
I suppose this would be useful for those who need to have their laptop on for long periods of time, but are not actually using it...?
Re: Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
#7I'm paranoid and it makes me sick the fact that there's no push platform that supports encryption. I don't want service providers to know what I push.
Re: Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
#8Is there an equivalent of udev on Mac OS so I don't have to run a cronjob to check the battery percentage all the time? I know how to get the percentage from ioreg but i'd be nice to be able to just listen for that api call like udev does.
I/O Kit can be used for this. [1]
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Device... (I'm a bit surprised that the docs assume that the reader is implementing a driver. I have used I/O Kit in an app that was available on the App Store.)
Re: Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
#9I'm paranoid and it makes me sick the fact that there's no push platform that supports encryption. I don't want service providers to know what I push.
Huh? How exactly are they stopping you from sending an encrypted message?
Re: Getting a push message on your phone when your laptop battery is running low
#10I'm paranoid and it makes me sick the fact that there's no push platform that supports encryption. I don't want service providers to know what I push.
Huh? How exactly are they stopping you from sending an encrypted message?
There's no mechanism to decrypt the result before display. So enjoy decrypting AES in your head!