Prowl - Get all your Growl notifications pushed to your iPhone! (even TWITTER!) [Archive]

adster

Jul 6, 2009, 01:34 PM

Prowl is a new app just released a few days ago. It's an app that pushes all your Growl notifications to your iPhone. This is a great way to get PUSH TWITTER!!!

Info about the app is here:
http://prowl.weks.net/
http://theappleblog.com/2009/07/06/prowl-get-any-growl-notifications-via-push-on-your-iphone/

Link to the App Store for $2.99:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320876271

Super Sneb

Jul 6, 2009, 02:36 PM

Just downloaded this and got it all set up, all i can say is it works really, really well!!

Im getting notifications for Tweetie, Transmission and NetNewsWire and it works for all of them!

ksmith80209

Jul 6, 2009, 03:09 PM

Just downloaded this and got it all set up, all i can say is it works really, really well!!

Im getting notifications for Tweetie, Transmission and NetNewsWire and it works for all of them!

So I was under the impression that you have to have your mac/pc running all the time for the this to work? Is that not the case?

CBJammin103

Jul 6, 2009, 03:15 PM

Wow, this is a great idea. :eek: Never occurred to me for some reason, haha. Never been much of a Growl user but I may have to consider setting up some of my workflow around it.

Can't this also basically give you push e-mail (you can get Growl notifications from Apple Mail, right?)?

Ol!ver

Jul 6, 2009, 03:39 PM

nutmac

Jul 6, 2009, 03:58 PM

Am I the only one who finds this pretty useless ? Why do I need push notifications of what I can already see on my Mac? If I was away from my Mac, and it was still on, I wouldn't really care what it was doing.
The whole idea is to leave certain Growl-supported apps running on the Mac all the time, such as Tweetie.

That said, I hesitate to spend money on a push app from a small developer. If the developer goes out of business, so will their server that interfaces with Apple Push Notification Service (APNs). No server, no push notification.

Ol!ver

Jul 6, 2009, 04:03 PM

The whole idea is to leave certain Growl-supported apps running on the Mac all the time, such as Tweetie.

I understand that. I just think leaving your machine on all the time just for that seems a little OTT.

maverick808

Jul 6, 2009, 04:21 PM

Am I the only one who finds this pretty useless ? Why do I need push notifications of what I can already see on my Mac? If I was away from my Mac, and it was still on, I wouldn't really care what it was doing.

Must be. I just installed it and it's brilliant. I'm now getting notifications when my downloads complete and when netnewswire gets new RSS items. Amazing.

I understand that. I just think leaving your machine on all the time just for that seems a little OTT.

Ah perhaps, I see your point. I have several machines and leave stuff running on my server. I could see how if you only have one machine it may be less useful.

Ol!ver

Jul 6, 2009, 04:21 PM

Must be.

Oh. OK :D

Ah perhaps, I see your point. I have several machines and leave stuff running on my server. I could see how if you only have one machine it may be less useful.

Ahh, I feel better now :)

Daremo

Jul 6, 2009, 04:23 PM

I think many people leave their computers on all the time anyway.

sparkomatic

Jul 6, 2009, 04:28 PM

This app sounds pretty cool. I'm thinking of setting up my home mac with Growl for stuff and then using this app for Twitter, mail updates and such.

JBaker122586

Jul 6, 2009, 04:55 PM

I think many people leave their computers on all the time anyway.

Yup.
I never turn mine off. Don't see the need.

almostaskater62

Jul 6, 2009, 06:15 PM

this app is pretty sweet, i just got it and set it up.
i was waiting for facebook to add push, and i didn't want to spend the money on beejive or whatever else, and this consolidates all those im clients as well as adding transmission and other stuff.
also the biggest problem with aim push and stuff was that when you were at your computer you still got push im's to your phone, and this app has an option to only send pushes when the computer's been idle for a certain amount of time, great idea.
i rarely turn off my computer, and if i do i wouldn't be getting messages from people anyway, so this is i must say a great idea and implementation.

TwelfthAG

Jul 6, 2009, 06:29 PM

Yup.
I never turn mine off. Don't see the need.

To not waste electricity?

Shaduu

Jul 6, 2009, 07:01 PM

To not waste electricity?

Slightly off topic but what the hell.

Boiling a kettle uses more electricity than leaving your average Intel-powered Mac running for six hours straight. Thank OS X power management for that.

Online

Jul 6, 2009, 09:05 PM

I emailed the maker to see if they plan on making a plug in for Windows. I hope so. This would be nice.

bigrobb

Jul 6, 2009, 10:34 PM

I bought this and downloaded the plugin for mac and set it up when I hit preview it sent a test to my phone but other than that I haven't gotten a single notification on my phone and some emails have come and messages on adium on my computer but they don't come on the phone I thought I had it set up right I will have to look again

badgerman

Jul 7, 2009, 08:35 AM

bigrobb

Jul 7, 2009, 08:48 AM

it started working sometime overnight i didnt change anything in the settings when i woke this morning it was working its still working now

Buschmaster

Jul 7, 2009, 09:40 AM

it started working sometime overnight i didnt change anything in the settings when i woke this morning it was working its still working now
Maybe you have the idle timer set higher than you've realized?

Online

Jul 7, 2009, 04:27 PM

I emailed the maker to see if they plan on making a plug in for Windows. I hope so. This would be nice.
Got a email back. Add it is good news for us Windows folk.

Indeed, the Growl for Windows developer has added Prowl support for
the next version (in beta soon, I'm told):

http://www.growlforwindows.com/prowl1.png

Online

Jul 7, 2009, 04:32 PM

Ok, well it is now updated for Windows. That was fast.

pyrodex

Jul 7, 2009, 06:25 PM

For you geeks out there... there is a perl script written to use this service...

http://prowl.weks.net/static/prowl.pl

I am going to use this + my tivo monitoring stuff to notify me for each time a show is recorded. I have SO many possibilities for this stuff now...

UPDATE: That was easy! Took me 15 minutes to make the modifications. This is very nice. Now I can have my firewall and other stuff send me push notifications for important stuff. Now time to integrate with Nagios for corporate monitoring.

SkillsToShow

Jul 7, 2009, 10:28 PM

This app is amazing, can see many uses with this.

jaycarroll

Jul 8, 2009, 12:38 PM

Wow, that got my attention. Any luck with Nagios? It'd be cool to integrate with Keynote as well.

For you geeks out there... there is a perl script written to use this service...

http://prowl.weks.net/static/prowl.pl

I am going to use this + my tivo monitoring stuff to notify me for each time a show is recorded. I have SO many possibilities for this stuff now...

UPDATE: That was easy! Took me 15 minutes to make the modifications. This is very nice. Now I can have my firewall and other stuff send me push notifications for important stuff. Now time to integrate with Nagios for corporate monitoring.

mzac

Jul 9, 2009, 12:43 PM

I've almost got it working with nagios, however the prowl.pl is giving me an error when nagios tries to run. Here is my config for notification and below is the error in nagios.log:

define command{
command_name notify-host-by-prowl
command_line /usr/local/bin/prowl.pl -apikey="$CONTACTADDRESS4$" -application="Nagios" -event="Host" -notification="$HOSTNAME$ $SERVICEDESC$ '$SERVICEOUTPUT$'"
}

define command{
command_name notify-service-by-prowl
command_line /usr/local/bin/prowl.pl -apikey="$CONTACTADDRESS4$" -application="Nagios" -event="Service" -notification="$HOSTNAME$ $SERVICEDESC$ '$SERVICEOUTPUT$'"
}

[1247160672] **ePN failed to compile /usr/local/bin/prowl.pl: "Missing right curly or square bracket at (eval 1) line 95, at end of line
syntax error at (eval 1) line 102, at EOF" at /usr/sbin/p1.pl line 159.

Wow, that got my attention. Any luck with Nagios? It'd be cool to integrate with Keynote as well.

acrollet

Jul 14, 2009, 05:21 PM

@mzac - I ran into that problem, too - basically you have to use the perl binary on your system to run the prowl script, because nagios' built-in perl interpreter chokes on it. See my blog post (http://reluctanthacker.rollett.org/content/setting-nagios3-send-prowl-notifications) for more details.