I have a dumb work related chrome thing, i’d like to make it so that when a certain notification sound plays in chromium, my computer does a few things automatically for me
Does anyone know a good way to make this happen?
I imagine it’d have to be setup like:
when chrome starts playing audio && check if that audio matches soundfile.ogg && myscript.sh, but I don’t know any good cli utilities that could get something like that done, and if there are any better ideas!
edit: to avoid X/Y issues i’ve summarized the problem in full here:
- I have a work program, this notifies me if I get a call or email, the work program then presents an accept/decline page, and does not proceed until I either accept, decline, or it times out.
- I want it to do two different things depending on if it’s a call or email
- It provides no notification other than the sound and an “accept” button on the page
- I have a chrome window open that does nothing but this, and I never use chrome for anything else
- I want to automatically do various things when I receive either this call or email
- I want it to be broadly applicable rather than a script designed for the specific website giving me the notification (so not a chrome extension). This prevents me from having to update any code in the event that the backend changes dramatically, and even if the notification sound changes, i’d just record a new sound as the activation noise.
- The noise is always the same, and hasn’t changed for many years, and there is a distinct noise between calls and emails
- They never overlap, they never play multiple times at the same time, and they never make any noises other than those two. The noises are distinct.
These factors cause me to want to run a script once the noise is recognized, only if the noise is playing in a particular app. I’m using pipewire/hyprland on arch.
My current plan for isolating the noise is to do the following:
pactl load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=‘Work’ slaves=‘easyeffects_sink’
and then set chrome exclusively to play audio on work.
Then set a script to check the sink work for audio that matches what I want. That should be simpler than the other methods i’ve seen to isolate the noise.
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It’s really not in this case, I can see why people think that since i’ve been vague, but tbh I thought somebody would have already made an easy sound recognition program and I just hadn’t seen it, and that once someone pointed that to me the rest would be easy.
Here is the entirety of the problem:
- I have a work program, this notifies me if I get a call or email, the work program then presents an accept/decline page, and does not proceed until I either accept, decline, or it times out.
- I want it to do two different things depending on if it’s a call or email
- It provides no notification other than the sound and an “accept” button on the page
- I have a chrome window open that does nothing but this, and I never use chrome for anything else
- I want to automatically do various things when I receive either this call or email
- I want it to be broadly applicable rather than a script designed for the specific website giving me the notification (so not a chrome extension). This prevents me from having to update any code in the event that the backend changes dramatically, and even if the notification sound changes, i’d just record a new sound as the activation noise.
- The noise is always the same, and hasn’t changed for many years, and there is a distinct noise between calls and emails
- They never overlap, they never play multiple times at the same time, and they never make any noises other than those two. The noises are distinct.
These factors cause me to want to run a script once the noise is recognized, only if the noise is playing in a particular app. I’m using pipewire/hyprland on arch.
edit: actually they have, it should be really easy with this: https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu
This is absolutely an xy problem. Your problem is that you need to programmatically respond to notifications across multiple applications
You are asking for help with a solution based on notification sounds which is one possible solution but a bit of a weird one
It does not give a desktop notification, or even a proper chrome notification, it’s just a dialogue on a page that says accept/deny
I said that in the post. The sound is the only thing to hook into. It doesn’t even set chrome as urgent.
Someone already talked about the XY problem, so I’ll say this.
Why sound notification instead of notification content? If your notification program (dunst in my case) have pattern matching or calling scripts based on patterns and the script has access to which app, notification title, contents etc. then it’s just about calling something in your bash script.
And any time you wanna add that functionality to something else, add one more line with a different pattern or add a condition in your script. Comparing text is lot more reliable than audio.
Of course your use case could be completely different, so maybe give some examples of use case so people can give you different ways to solve that instead of just the one you’re thinking of.
It does not make a desktop notification at all, so that won’t work
Is the sound screaming?
it might as well be, I hallucinate the noise regularly, although if it actually was screaming that would be a lot scarier.
Hallucinating a noise that you hear constantly very loudly is normal. Pretty sure.
Can you isolate the call to the sound from the DevTools? And if so, does DevTools allow you to edit the function? Perhaps you could GET/POST something on localhost which could trigger a shell script.
My assumption is that you don’t care if your notification gets spoofed, ex. Someone rings a little bell and the script deletes all cookies from porn websites as if the little bell notification played.
So I think the hardest and best way to do this is to have the script run on a separate device than the sound plays on.
First record the sound you want to trigger with. Use the script executing device with the microphone and interface you’ll be using in production set up in the location of production to make it easier on yourself.
Now reduce the bitrate of the target sound a lot. No, more than that, keep going, a little more, that’s perfect.
Now write something that will capture the last target_sound_length seconds of audio and compare it with the bitcrushed version. Depending on your device, there may be a buffer object in the adc you can interface with, although if it’s running a normal operating system you won’t be able to just get to it without going through the os first.
If you can go through the chrome notificationing machine, figure out the hook used to trigger the notification you want to respond to and intercept and perform the script. No nyquist needed!
I dunno exactly but, for shell script,
playerctlcan detect the audio output ig.There might be some audio library. May be you can write a daemon or something to watch for events. That way you can you use it on anywhere not just on chrome.
Can you add more specifications, coz id like to help
Sometimes the easiest solution is multiple solutions
Maybe just write something to hook into the notification in Chrome, there’s probably a way to get that working within an electron app too if the desktop app (teams?) is electron
That won’t work if the backend ever changes, and will be locked into a single program
https://github.com/JorenSix/Olaf I’ve decided to use this, i’ll probably have a solution this week, i have to actually record the sounds my next workday, then i’ll test it. Seems much easier to do than making a chrome extension, honestly.
Expect automates things, based on text-input captured from a terminal.
Not sure if it has been extended/hacked to take sound as an input.
Sounds like a case where machine learning would actually be useful.
