Daylite Touch Notify

What is it?

Monitor Daylite Touch syncs on your Mac. This is useful for admins, who want to be sure that the Daylite Server is working correctly.

The tool consists of two parts, a server and a client script.

Server

This part runs on the machine with your Daylite Server installed. The software uses watchdog to detect changes in the Daylite Touch logfile. Whenever a user syncs with Daylite, this file gets modified and a message is broadcasted to all clients (using pusher).

Client

On the client machine, another script receives the pusher message and displays an OSX notification popup for each synchronization. You can write new clients with ease. Any platform and language is supported. Just subscribe to the pusher channel and you will receive updates automatically. I'll happily accept pull requests.

Howto

1. Register at pusher.com
2. Insert your pusher key into dtouchclient.py.
3. Insert your pusher app-id, key and secret into dtouchserver.py.
4. Start dtouchserver.py on your server.
5. Start dtouchclient.py on your client.

Running the script in the background

If you want to have the script running as a daemon process, which starts automatically, you can use launchctl and a plist file on Mac OS X. Here is how.

On the server

./setup_server.sh

On the client

./setup_client.sh

This will place the scripts in /usr/bin and immediately run the program.

If you ever want to remove the script, you can use the unload command of launchctl, e.g.:

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/de.matthias-endler.dtouchclient.plist

(Instructions adapted from mnem on StackOverflow)

Troubleshooting

If you can't get it to work, look into the dtouchserver logfile first.

tail ~/Library/Logs/dtouchserver.log

You should see messages like 20XX-XX-XX XX:XX:XX,XXX Sync from user (OUT:9/IN:9). If not, something's wrong with the server. Try to run the script directly with python dtouchserver.py.

If everything looks fine until here, check your credentials (API key,...) again. After that, run the client locally with python dtouchclient.py. If you can get messages but nothing happens when you run the setup script, you can add a logger to your plist file (follow the instructions in de.matthias-endler.dtouchclient.plist)

If the logfile tells you about import errors, replace

#!/usr/bin/env python

inside dtouchclient.py with the output of which python and run ./setup_client again.