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.
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