Notifications for Rendering/Baking outside of Blender (text/email/phone app)
I've seen a few ideas with some similar concepts to this, although I would add a few degrees of separation to this from those. I think it would be nice to have an option to get an audio cue for things like render completion, baking completion etc.
Another degree of expansion to this concept would be maybe a blender companion app or some sort of way to receive notifications from blender outside of just your computer! When I'm rendering out commission work, it would be nice to know when each scene was fully done rendering so I could come start the next one without having to calculate an estimate of how long it would take on my own, and instead have a notification pushed straight to me via text/email, or a companion phone app for blender!
The cool thing about the concept of a blender phone app would be how many other things you could integrate outside of that as well like photoscanning, news, creator content on top of the basic convenience of a notification system!
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This should be something that the community should be able to solve. Might need some tweaks in blender core, but those should not be to difficult to add.
Note that having a phone app it should connect to a server on the internet. The blender add-on should push the notification to that server and your phone should receive the notifications from that server.
There are a lot of push notification servers out there that could do this, but some require a subscription.
Great feature idea. Here are a few add-ons the devs can study, and users might be able to use before they're included:
blenderartists.org/t/render-music/535522/10 - Render Music add-on, a post near the end has it updated for 2.8
reddit.com/r/blender/comments/fw8k9z/blender_render_complete_notification_addon_free/