About

pushover-desktop-client is a tool written in node.js to display Pushover notifications on your desktop. It uses node-notifier so it should work with many different desktop notification providers on many different operating systems.

This project uses the undocumented Pushover websocket API to receive updates about new notifications. You may need to pay to enable the desktop service to use this project.

Using it

First install pushover-desktop-client globally with npm

npm install -g pushover-desktop-client

Then set up your settings file at ~/.config/pushover-dc/settings.json

{
    "secret": "secret obtained from pushover.net"
  , "deviceId": "device id obtained from pushover.net"
}

You can override the location of the settings file with the PUSHOVER_SETTINGS_PATH environment variable.

Alternatively you can use PUSHOVER_DEVICE_ID, PUSHOVER_SECRET, PUSHOVER_IMAGE_CACHE instead of using the settings file at all.

Now you are ready to run:

pushover-desktop-client

Finding Your deviceId and secret

I had to find mine by viewing the source over at the desktop web client. At the time they were at the bottom of the file in the variables Pushover.deviceId and Pushover.userSecret

Running as a service on OSX

I use launchd to keep this thing running and in the background.

Install the plist below in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.nbrownus.pushover-desktop-client.plist

Make sure to replace {YOUR_USERNAME_HERE} with your username

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.github.nbrownus.pushover-desktop-client.plist</string>
    <key>OnDemand</key>
    <false/>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/usr/local/bin/node</string>
      <string>/usr/local/share/npm/bin/pushover-desktop-client</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ServiceDescription</key>
    <string>Pushover Desktop Client</string>
    <key>ServiceIPC</key>
    <false/>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Users/{YOUR_USERNAME_HERE}/Library/Logs/PushoverDesktopClient/output.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Users/{YOUR_USERNAME_HERE}/Library/Logs/PushoverDesktopClient/output.log</string>
  </dict>
</plist>

Make sure the log directory exists

mkdir -p ~/Library/Logs/PushoverDesktopClient/

Then load the plist

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.github.nbrownus.pushover-desktop-client.plist

All done!

TODO:

Support the custom sound bytes