I've added Prowl alerts for my Simplenote Wordpress system. How about the WP-Prowl plugin for WordPress notifications? It provides many levels of notification.īeyond the examples listed on the Prowl site, any application or script that can send a Growl message becomes a Prowl enabled application. How about monitoring the Apple Store for when it goes down? I use Pingdom now (after Marco Arment recommended it) but I can imagine some interesting variations on this. Just a few examples:Ī script to monitor a list of sites and send alerts about problems. There are additional Prowl plugins and tools available on the Prowl site. When activated, Prowl provides the option for opening the URL in Safari.
#Hardwaregrowler. free
Once a free API key is generated the Safari plugin provides a single toolbar button for sending the current URL to all iOS devices through Prowl. Through the 2Prowl Safari Plugin I can send URL's directly to my iOS device through Prowl. The service provides out of the box support for Google Voice Prowl notifications. Each Prowl account comes with a secret email account to send Prowl alerts, called ProwlMail. Sure, I can get notifications when a backup is done or when a script starts to fail, but what other things can be Prowl be used for? Prowl provides email triggers. Luckily Prowl has a good privacy policy that is clear to understand and I'm comfortable with. Some of that information I may not have control over. There could be a lot of information funneling through Prowl. Since it supports custom URL's this should work similar to the excellent Launch Center. The system works by launching the specified application directly from the notification. Notifications can be set to redirect to specific applications. Even after notifications have been dismissed, the history is still available in the app. The app also acts as a centralized Prowl log. Not only can notifications be toggled with a do-not-disturb setting but the application provides granular settings for Quiet Hours, when no Prowl messages should be displayed. The iOS application provides any more customization.
Just the devices registered with the service and with the $2.99 iOS Prowl app installed.
#Hardwaregrowler. mac
The Mac tells the cloud about a notification and the cloud notifies all of the iOS devices. The web application is the glue that holds the system together. Once configured on the Mac, Prowl needs to be configured on the web. As an example, when used in conjunction with the HardWare Growler plugin I can get alerts when my Mac at home suddenly switches to UPS backup power. For example, setting the threshold to "Moderate" means I only get notifications of critical alerts on my Mac. This is the ability to set a minimum priority so that only high priority alerts are pushed. 1Īnother key feature is the ability to tell Prowl what kind of notifications to push. If I'm working on my Mac, I don't need every notification to show up on my iPhone and iPad. For example, setting Prowl to only push alerts after a period of inactivity. There are a number of important customizations. Prowl is configured through the Growl preferences panel. It's a simple plugin with a lot of customization. Prowl is a plugin for Growl that provides push notifications from the Mac to iOS. That means additions like Prowl will still be the domain of Growl. Given the lack of third-party hooks into the iOS notification system, I have little hope that Apple will open the OS X notification system for customizations. Growl has evolved into a mature notification system on OS X, providing many third party plugins and extensions.
Growl is a highly customizable notification system available through the MAS. It looks nice, but I'm likely to stick with Growl. Apple has announced plans to release an iOS-like notification system for OS X.
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