New feature: Idle notifications

[akamel001]

I love using this app and would love to see some type of notification system built in.

My usecase is I want to trigger some home automation once my laptop goes idle. For example, if my laptop is idle after x minutes (i'm obviously not in the room or stepped away). I would have automation trigger the lights off.

Perhaps a MQTT message/notification would get fired off and my automation can tap into that topic?

[bhaller]

Wow, interesting idea. I know nothing about this sort of thing. I don't suppose you know how to trigger a MQTT notification (whatever that is!) from Cocoa?

[akamel001]

I'm not too familiar with Cocoa but I think there are a few frameworks out there that can let you do this. I was thinking of a box under preferences that allows you to configure MQTT client settings (like host to connect to, username, password). Then using those settings you would deliver a payload to the MQTT server. A ton of home automation open-source tools trigger off of MQTT messages so this would be ideal!

[bhaller]

Interesting. Well, Jiggle is not really under active development – it takes more than the free time I have just to try to keep my software working on new macOS releases and fix bugs – so this is unlikely to happen any time soon. But I'll leave the issue open; it's an interesting idea, and maybe somebody else will run with it. :->