nicoe / remhind

A daemon to display notifications of iCalendar events

remhind

A notification daemon of events stored in directories

Those directories will be monitored for change in order to allow you to use solution like vdirsyncer to sync your CalDAV server with your local filesystem.

Getting Started

remhind use a toml configuration file indicating which directories holds your event files. Here's a simple example:

[calendars]
    [calendars.test]
    name = "Test"
    path = "~/projets/perso/remhind/test_calendar"

Installing

remhind can be installed through PyPI using pip.

pip install remhind

Acknowledgments

This work has been inspired by the work of the pimutils group

remhind's Issues

Issue notification a configurable time interval before the event start

First of all, thanks for this great project. It's a much needed addition to the opensource ecosystem.

Currently, remhind issues a notification for events without alarms explicitly set once that event starts. Since in practice, majority of the .ics files do not come with alarms embedded, it would be more helpful if the user could (perhaps on a calendar-level base) define a default time interval (i.e. 5 minutes) that remhind would notify him before next event start:

9.55: Event "Meeting with the boss" starts in 5 minutes.

instead of the default behaviour of

10.00: Event "Meeting with the boss" started

this would allow for some time to find a meeting room, move between buildings, find a cell phone number to call, etc :)

Allow settings notification timeout

Thanks for the great project!

I love the reminders already but right now I sometimes miss reminders popping up because I'm not at my computer when they fire. Could you add a setting to the config to set a timeout for all notifications? Personally I'd like to set it to 'display until clicked'(set_timeout(EXPIRES_NEVER))