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Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:09 am • by kevlad911
Hi, I've tried changing all sorts of option in hazel and growl but I can't get notifications to work. They work fine when I change the option to send to Notification Centre from the Info section but no joy on growl....

Anyone have any ideas?
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:34 am • by Mr_Noodle
What OS version are you running? Are Growl notifications working with other apps?
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:29 am • by kevlad911
Hi, I running Sierra 10.12. Yes - growl is working fine with other apps. Ive tried messing about with growls settings and with changing my rule setup but can't get it to work....
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:39 am • by Mr_Noodle
Check the logs. Go to the "Info" section and click "View Log". Set up a rule to use the notification action to make it more explicit and see if that executes without error or not.
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:40 am • by kevlad911
ok. setup a new rule to send notification if file was created today. created a notepad doc and notification shown in notification centre. no error inn log file. changed notifications to send to growl and created another file. log file showed custom message and no error. nothing shown in growl.

any other settings i should check?
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Mon Oct 24, 2016 11:01 am • by Mr_Noodle
Again, check Hazel's logs. See if there are any messages that refer to Growl (search for the text "growl"). Also, what version of Growl do you have installed?
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:00 pm • by kevlad911
Checked the log and no mention of growl other than in the name of the test file I created. Notification option definitely set to growl in the info section.

2016-10-24 17:51:36.543 hazelworker[44551] growl test 5.rtf: Rule New Rule matched.
2016-10-24 17:51:36.544 hazelworker[44551] Hazel Alert: hello growl test 5.rtf
2016-10-24 17:51:36.544 hazelworker[44551] [Custom Message] Hazel Alert: hello growl test 5.rtf

I'm using growl 2.1.3.
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Mon Oct 24, 2016 1:43 pm • by Mr_Noodle
Actually, forgot one step. Can you turn on debug logging as described here? https://www.noodlesoft.com/kb/hazel-debug-mode/

Also, something I should have said at the start, but Growl support may be going away at some point. The percentage of users using it still is pretty low so I have to weigh that against efforts to maintain it.
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:25 pm • by kevlad911
Ok. Turned on debug and created another test file. Output from log:
2016-10-24 19:17:22.250 hazelworker[45042] test 6.rtf: Rule New Rule matched.
2016-10-24 19:17:22.250 hazelworker[45042] DEBUG: New rule signature. Executing actions.
Old signatures: (
)
New Signature:{TRUEPREDICATE}:{(notify:(
"hello ",
"{file}"
),{
makeSticky = 0;
})}
2016-10-24 19:17:22.251 hazelworker[45042] Hazel Alert: hello test 6.rtf
2016-10-24 19:17:22.251 hazelworker[45042] [Custom Message] Hazel Alert: hello test 6.rtf

Still no mention of growl in the log.

i use growl and prowl to send notifications from hazel to my phone. Considering your comments about ongoing support for growl, is there another mechanism I can use to get hazel notifcations sent to my iPhone?
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:33 pm • by Mr_Noodle
Thanks for the info. Oddly, I can't Growl to work at all on Sierra and it keeps reporting as not running to Hazel here. If you don't see any message indicating that then I think something else is going on. Will have to think on it.

As for alternatives, you'd probably have to do some sort of script. Maybe something with IFTTT.
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:46 pm • by kevlad911
Thanks for taking the time. Kinda feels like a growl issue now based on your findings too. . I'll do some more experimenting, focussing in growl.

I'll take a look at scripting. Did something similar for iflicks and that works fine.

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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Mon Nov 14, 2016 8:17 am • by galexa
Growl broke for me too. I was using it to send notifications to my phone using PushOver.

My workaround is to use EventScripts, which I was already using. So, this script, embedded in a Hazel rule is working for me:

http://www.mousedown.net/mouseware/Event_Scripting.html (scroll down to PushOver notifications)

Does anyone have an easier way for sending a Hazel generated message to PushOver?

Thanks.

my AppleScript in case anyone else needs similar:
set theDateTime to current date
set pushoverMsg to "some-message at " & theDateTime
set userKey to "your-pushover-user-key"
tell application "EventScripts"
set theResult to send pushover pushoverMsg using user key userKey
end tell
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Mon Nov 14, 2016 11:53 am • by kevlad911
I ended up using pushover too. I used the same source you used to create the script - couldn't find an easier way....
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Wed Jan 11, 2017 4:39 am • by nleco
I also noticed that Growl doesn't work on Hazel. I'm on osx Sierra 10.12.2 with growl 2.1.3.

I use Slic3r, a 3d printer software, and that sends things to growl and it works. bummer since I also used this to send messages to my phone via a growl "notify my android" plugin.

You guys figure this out?
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Re: Growl Notifications not working - 4.0.6 Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:03 pm • by Mr_Noodle
Sorry, have been busy with other things and I have to say that Growl has become less of a priority given that notification center exists.
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