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[PaulOBrien]

Welcome to 'Paul's App of the Day', where I pick one of my favourite apps as featured app of the day! Today's app is...

Remote Notifier

What they say

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See phone notifications, such as phone ring, SMS and low battery, on the screen of your Mac with Growl (Linux soon).
Useful, for instance, to not miss calls when using headphones.

See http://code.google.c...droid-notifier/ for instructions and desktop downloads.

What we say

This is so cool! Simply put, it's notifications from your phone displayed on your PC. Phone in your pocket / bag / upstairs? No problem, don't miss what's happening on your device!±

Check out this page for Linux and Windows clients.

Thanks @PetrFaitl for the heads up!

Permissions

ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE / ACCESS_WIFI_STATE / BATTERY_STATS / BLUETOOTH / BLUETOOTH_ADMIN / CHANGE_WIFI_STATE / INTERNET / READ_CONTACTS / READ_LOGS / READ_PHONE_STATE / RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED / RECEIVE_MMS / RECEIVE_SMS / WAKE_LOCK / WRITE_SETTINGS

Download

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Direct Market Link (for on device)

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Price

FREE

Market star rating at time of writing

3.83 (109 ratings)

Version at time of writing

0.2.4

Similar / Alternative apps

n/a

Suggested improvements for the next version

I'd live to see the option to mute the audio notification on the device when it successfully passed to the PC.

Have your say

Fan of Remote Notifier? Found something better? Just wanna share your experiences? Post below!

[giggsey]

This sounds like a perfect idea for Android -> Cloud.

So you get a notification on your PC when you have an incoming event (sms/phone call etc.)

[gumbald]

Definitely an idea for the future when it's less tied by IP address...

[Vido.Ardes]

Don't spose anyone has worked out how to get this working with Growl for windows yet have they?

EDIT: Never mind got it working now. Fantastic app. I always have my phone on silent for work and have headphones in too, now I know when someone is phoning me!! I use Growl for skype and for gmail already great piece of software

Edited by Vido.Ardes, 08 September 2010 - 10:02 AM.

[PaulOBrien]

Blimey, I didn't even know there WAS a Growl for Windows!

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[PaulOBrien]

Oh, now THIS is interesting too!

http://www.growlforandroid.com/

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[codemann]

Vido.Ardes, on Sep 8 2010, 11:45, said:

Don't spose anyone has worked out how to get this working with Growl for windows yet have they?

EDIT: Never mind got it working now. Fantastic app. I always have my phone on silent for work and have headphones in too, now I know when someone is phoning me!! I use Growl for skype and for gmail already great piece of software

How did you get it working? I sent out notifications, but my Windows client doesn't seem to receive them.

[PaulOBrien]

I'm using this over the internet to my iMac btw, so I don't even need WiFi or BT on for it to work.

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[dedreiix]

Really cool tool. Thumbs up!

[johoja]

Paul, on Sep 8 2010, 11:24, said:

I'm using this over the internet to my iMac btw, so I don't even need WiFi or BT on for it to work.

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I've developed a similar app, Notify Pro, but it uses notify.io to send your notifications instead it's a pay app, but it doesn't rely on an IP anymore.

[PaulOBrien]

Cool, that looks smart too!

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[dave_a]

Paul, on Sep 8 2010, 10:56, said:

Blimey, I didn't even know there WAS a Growl for Windows!

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I didn't know there was a Growl for anything! Nothing better than finding something you didn't think you needed then a while later realising that you can't do without!

codemann, on Sep 8 2010, 12:20, said:

How did you get it working? I sent out notifications, but my Windows client doesn't seem to receive them.

If you are still having, problems, check this thread in the issues section:

http://code.google.c...detail?id=43#c0

Actually, that will only help with Growl, are you not getting any notifications in the "Android Notifier" client?

Edited by dave_a, 10 September 2010 - 08:33 AM.

[mhewitson]

Works well on Linux whilst on the same Wifi.
Anyone know how to set it up to notify if the phone is not on wifi ?

Edited by mhewitson, 23 September 2010 - 05:10 PM.

[IronDoc]

dave_a, on Sep 10 2010, 09:27, said:

I didn't know there was a Growl for anything! Nothing better than finding something you didn't think you needed then a while later realising that you can't do without!
If you are still having, problems, check this thread in the issues section:

http://code.google.c...detail?id=43#c0

Actually, that will only help with Growl, are you not getting any notifications in the "Android Notifier" client?

Thank you.
I was bordering on giving up.