osxnotifysounds

I thought it'd be nice to have custom sounds for any application that pushes events/alerts to the OSX notification center.

Building and Running

Below steps can be used to build the binary.

git clone https://github.com/asyncsrc/osxnotifysounds
cd osxnotifysounds
cargo build --release

mkdir -p ~/.config/osxnotifysounds
cp config.json.sample ~/.config/osxnotifysounds/config.json

Tests

Test coverage is weak at the moment as I'm only validating one field in the json config file so far. But here we are!

cargo test

[...]

running 1 test
test tests::tests::app_id_invalid ... ok

test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

Configuration

Inside the config file at ~/.config/osxnotifysounds/config.json, your primary concerns are:

• app_id value
• look_for values
• sound value

Find the App ID for your desired application

In order to find the app_id for an application you're interested in monitoring, use the '-a' cli argument, e.g.,

./osxnotifysounds -a slack
Matched application: com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap -- app_id: 25

You can now add a new entry to the config.json file for this app and set its app_id value to this value.

Triggering sounds for different strings

The program will do substring matches to confirm whether a value within the look_for list is found in the notification/alert text.

Slack alert: (app_id: 25)

Example alert:  "New message from Joe Bob"

Example look_for value:

"look_for": [
  "Joe Bob"
]

In this case, Joe Bob would be found in the alert, so the sound value is triggered.

Sound

Once a sound is triggered, we'll use afplay to attempt to play the sound file. I've only tested *.aiff files, but I'm sure we could make any type of audio file/player work.