Fofer Wrote:Hello! I'd previously been tinkering with the similar ICallAccess, and was very intrigued by the implications. Unfortunately the client was written in Java, and I'd always held onto hope that one day something Growl-compatible would come out to replace it.

Quote:1- When testing, I'm noticing a consistent issue which seems to be a deal-breaker. If the iPhone is sitting idle, as in I haven't touched it in a few minutes, and the screen is blank, and a call comes in to the iPhone... no Growl alert appears on my laptop. If I make a 2nd call, though, shortly thereafter, a Growl alert appears properly. The only way I am able to get it to work consistently is by making two calls (as described) or by turning the iPhone's screen on first. I'm not sure what's required here to make it work consistently, but if the phone needs to "on and awake all the time" for this to work, then it's not really an ideal solution.

Quote:2- When I tap the "Help" button in Notify Global Settings, the app crashes to the Springboard.

Quote:3- What do the "Wifi Only" and "Anyonymize" buttons actually do?

Quote:4- I'll agree that putting this functionality in iPhone Settings would be nicer than a standalone
app, since the preferences are "set it and forget it."

Quote:5- I would very much LOVE to see the contact's photo appear, that would be super slick. I'm using Growl on a Mac. I know this works with , so perhaps the source there can be examined to see what parameters need to be sent so that the same can work for incoming calls/texts/etc.

Quote:Thanks for any response or feedback! Loving this utility so far!

chris3g Wrote:i can help you with 1. when your phone is sleeping, it turns off the wifi radio to save battery power. When the phone wakes up, it takes a second or two to reconnect to the wifi network. If you receive a call while the phone is asleep, notify sends the growl notification immediately, before your phone has had an opportunity to reconnect. The phone is trying to communicate with your PC using a local network address, but it is not actually connected to the local network yet. The reason the 2nd call works for you is because the phone is now connected to your local wifi network.

so to work around this, you need to set up notify to send your notifications to your public ip address, this way it will work correctly from both wifi and the 3G connection. you will most likely have to set up port forwards in your firewall/router to accomplish this, but once you have it set up correctly you will then receive notifications even when your phone is asleep.

Maybe another alternative for a future update could be to delay sending the notification for a set period of time, so as to allow the phone enough time to reconnect to the wifi before attempting to send.

chris3g Wrote:Maybe another alternative for a future update could be to delay sending the notification for a set period of time, so as to allow the phone enough time to reconnect to the wifi before attempting to send.

johoja Wrote:I actually saw that App before I started work on mine...and was pretty dissapointed by it.

johoja Wrote:2). I've been toying with the idea to add an option to wake up the WiFi then send a notification...Would that be something you want?

johoja Wrote:WiFi only - Will only attempt to send a notification if you are connected to a WiFi network.

johoja Wrote:Anyonymize - requested by a dodgy member on this forum (jk). It will not display the caller's name or number, or the txters name/number or the text body on the alerts. Instead it will just say... "Incoming Call - Private", etc.

It does not Anonymize emails, or push notifications though.

johoja Wrote:That is somethign I will look into...but..its not really high on my list...sure making it look pretty is nice...but I would much rather add the ability to reply to an SMS etc, first. I would hope most people would agree with that descision....unless there's a high urgent demand to put this in to the Settings app right away..this is something I will be looking into..but not until I finish the current to do list.

johoja Wrote:Currently I'm trying to implement some sort of license checks which is wasting my time as I'm having to research encryption techniques, etc which I'm not to familiar with...but oh well...gotta do what you gotta do...just trying to protect my IP. I would much rather be implementing the reply to SMS.

johoja Wrote:Appreciate it !!! Hope my answers were sufficient, and your friends like it too .

Fofer Wrote:Yes, absolutely, that would be great. For all intents and purposes, this app will only work when I'm at my home office (which is fine for my needs) -- simply because of how it routes through the Public IP (or wifi to my internal IP, which wouldn't be the same when I'm traveling at a clients.) That said, it seems a bit awkward to use the external IP option, and open a port on my router, just to get this going consistently. I do understand why the workaround is needed, just thinking out loud about implementation. If you could come up with a more elegant way of getting WiFi working consistently (even when the iPhone is coming out of standby) that'd be great.

Quote:Gotcha. I guess it's kinda like, "don't bother to even try sending a notification, if I'm not on WiFi, since it won't work anyway." Seems like this is affected by the standby issue, though. IE: I did have WiFi on, and this toggle set (to send a notification when I was connected to WiFi,) with Notify Pro configured to send it via Public IP. But the iPhone went into standby, which disables the WiFi... so it doesn't get sent. Even though my settings are configured for it to be sent via the 3G cell network.

Quote:I was hoping it'd be more like "at the time it went into standby, it was connected to a wifi network, so it's safe to send out a notification." It would make sense for me to enable that check, even when using the Public IP address, since when I'm at the home office I'm connected to a WiFi network and there's no reason for Notify Pro to send out notifications when I'm NOT at the home office. I guess this would be something to think about for future updates. Consider making it Location Aware - only enabled when within 1000 feet of my house. Via GPS coordinates, or when connected to my wireless SSID, or whatever. Of course, time-based scheduling would be cool too.

Quote:Yeah, I hear ya. If it encourages you any, I will say that $1.50 is more than reasonable and I am going to evangelize your app to every iPhone/Mac user I know (and I know quite a few, on various tech forums and professional organizations.) You deserve lots of kudos and compensation for your fine work.

stoli Wrote:Working great - how about the ability to adjust the display time for the notifications?

Also, for those using a flavor of Aeon that doesn't display the caller picture, add the following to DialogKaiToast.xml:

Code:

<control type="image" id="400">
    <description>avatar</description>
    <posx>9</posx>
    <posy>9</posy>
    <width>73</width>
    <height>73</height>
    <aspectratio>keep</aspectratio>
    <texture>DefaultFile.png</texture>
</control>

This can go right at the end, before the last two </control> tags.

Fofer Wrote:ICallAccess gives you the option to reject, and to hang up the phone call, from the computer. Could that be a feature consideration for Notify Pro with Growl?

Cloaky Wrote:Not sure if this is a Growl or a Notify feature request, but is it possible to show the notification just while the phone is ringing? If u reject or accept the notification just pops out.

johoja Wrote:Not sure what you mean by the pop out part?

rickardkk Wrote:I use EventGhost for home automation and all my AV electronics is controlled by XBMCs EventServer + the HTTP API.

The issue is that when I receive a phone call while playing music or video I can't pause or dim the audio before answering.

It would be great to have the Notify Pro app integrate with EventGhost. So EventGhost then could tell XBMC to pause or dim the audio volume on my AV Receiver or whatever on incoming calls.

Quote:As the WIFI is disconnected during sleep it would be great to use GPS to tell Notify that your ar home (as you would not like an incoming call to interact with media or home automation if your not at home).

Quote:I would gladly pay a great premium for this kind of functionallity (especially now after spending days trying to solve this with BT).

rickardkk Wrote:Great!

You could make use of the EventGhost Webserver.

So there is no need to write a receiver part (server) to be used with Notify. Just to be able to feed EventGhost with events would do it!!