hangout-alert - Uses Apple Notification Center to provide the hangout link for an upcoming meeting. Original idea by Muness as documented on his blog.
###DESCRIPTION
hangout-alert If you subscribe to a Google calendar using Apple's Calendar app, you know that hangout links will not show up a meeting request. So even though Calendar will remind you of the meeting, you have to log into Google calendar to find the link. That's where hangout-alert comes in. This script uses gcalci to grab your agenda for the day and then uses terminal-notifier to generate an Apple notification that presents the hangout link in the "show" button. Simple click that button and join the hangout.
###INSTALLATION
- Install gcalci
- Authorize gcalci by launching it
- Install terminal-notifier
- Clone this repo, tweak to your liking, and copy hangout-alert.rb to /some/path/hangout-alert
- Setup a cron job to run the script (e.g. 13,28,43,58 8-18 * * * /some/path/hangout-alert)
In my example cron job in step 4 I'm running the script every day from 8am to 6pm, 2 minutes before the quarter hour. The idea is that most meetings will start on a quarter hour, and the 10 minute default alert I get from Calendar is generally to far in advance. So following that up with an alert that provides the link just 2 minutes before the meeting works well for me.