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I found a couple of problems with MythGrowl, it would often crash after being run for more that 3 hours due to some very hard to debug multi-threading problems. I have it all sorted now, so if you downloaded and were running MythGrowl 0.1 or 0.2 be sure to upgrade and run 0.3 which is available at the same download link as before in the post below.

For those interested, I was using the curl library for Cocoa to retrieve the Mythbackend status page in its own thread. Turns out the use of libcurl was totally unnecessary as versions of MAC OS X greater than 10.2 support the NSURLConnection API which provides a much more clean and simple way to retrieve data from a URL. So I have also been able to reduce the size of the application and source by removing the threading library I was using and eliminating libcurl.

Overall a very satisfactory fix.

I’ve just finished writing MythGrowl - a fairly simple MAC OS X application that generates Growl notifications when your MythTV backend starts and stops recording or watching a show. You simply specify the IP address or hostname of your MythTV backend server and it will start notifying you. The application (universal binary) is available below.

Update: This is no longer the place to download MythGrowl. It has moved to http://mythgrowl.sourceforge.net/ Download the latest version there!

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Complete source code can be downloaded here
I’m releasing MythGrowl under the GPL.

You have to promise to check for regular updates and report any bugs. I plan to implement the Sparkle update system in the next release.

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