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!

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Lazy people tend to be creative people, which is good, especially when confronted with boring activities.

    I’d solve it in hardware, maybe an ESP32 dongle with a mic pretending to be a keyboard.

    Seriously though, sounds like you need a more creative or fulfilling job.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah the most fulfilling thing about this job has been figuring out how to automate as much of it as possible while still pretending to be a normal worker. It’s pretty terrible, i’m going to switch to herpetology eventually, but can’t do that right now for various reasons I don’t want to get into on a public forum.

      I’m at the top of every performance metric because of my inclination to be lazy as fuck with it though, so, it works.