From here you can do almost anything, have your phone get a notification, send an SMS, turn on/off a light/plug, play a song, etc.Ĭhallenges (this bits a bit technical if you want to skip it) Once they change the widget announces the event to the very cool automation system IFTTT (If This Then That) along with the optional details entered earlier.After clicking OK the widget disappears but it’s actually still running and constantly monitoring the area of interest comparing the colour of the pixels to the original version.The widget shows you the screenshot in a scrolling window – select the area of interest by dragging a rectangle around it, this is the area that doesn’t change until the action you want to monitor is done.Open the widget – a screenshot is taken (multiple screens work too).It works like this (Google’s built in countdown timer used as an example of a progress bar): To alleviate this first world problem, I’ve built a quick widget to watch the screen for me and to alert me if it changes. So what you end up doing is keep looking/walking back over to the screen to check how far it’s got and getting disappointed how far it’s not moved, like the proverbial watched kettle.
Screenwatcher plus#
Some systems have the functionality to send you an email once finished but the vast majority of them don’t plus it’s quite limited. We’ve all been there, you start a report running, a file downloading or a program installing and you know it’s going to take a while to finish. Ok, now that I’ve fulfilled the vaguely related quote requirement for a blog post we can get down to business. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job.
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