How do I use gntp-send?

I'm currently attempting to hack together a way to send notifications to my Android cellphone using growl, and its various forms from Windows and Linux systems. At the current point of time, I'm using the growlnotify binary from growl for windows for testing. It works perfectly from a local system running windows, without any arguments other than the message.

However I'd like to also have notification capabilities from my linux boxen, and gntp-send seems to be a suitable tool.

Unfortunately I can't find a user guide or a man page - the closest thing is the error message, which is about all i seem to be able to get this application to do

gntp-send: [-u] [-i] [-a APPNAME] [-n NOTIFY] [-s SERVER:PORT] [-p PASSWORD] title message [icon] [url]

I've attempted using just the -s and -p arguements (which throws me the above error message), those and the -u arguement (which also throws me the above error message). I'm assuming the standard port for growl (23053) and using the correct IP address

gntp-send -i -a foo -n bar -s 192.168.1.140:23053 -p password test

sits there doing nothing.

So, how do I send a message to a system running growl for Windows, from a Linux system? I'd prefer this solution but any workable alternative would be fine. My end goal is to send a message from a linux system running a CLI install of ubuntu (version isn't important here) to a windows system running growl for windows)?

EDIT:

gntp-send  -s=192.168.1.140:23053 -p=password test http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1111219/IMG_0482.JPG

throws me a different error message gethostbyname: Connection timed out I'm guessing I got the arguements right but something else wrong

Solution 1:

I can send messages by just doing,

gntp-send -a "App Name" -s ip-address "title" "msg" /path/to/ico.png

I stumbled upon this, as i was trying too figure a way to set priorities within the sent notification. Unfortunately there are no documents for this and even the git location / readme just explains how to compile but not use :/ really frustrating

Solution 2:

I guess it is a little late but I have done up a simple man page. Can you take a look and see if it clarifies the usage?

https://raw.github.com/psinnott/gntp-send/master/gntp-send.man

NAME gntp-send - Utility for sending notifications to Growl using UDP or GNTP protocols

SYNOPSIS

gntp-send [-u] [-a APPNAME] [-n NOTIFY] [-s SERVER:PORT] [-p PASSWORD] title message [icon] [url]

DESCRIPTION Sends notification to local or remote Growl application over UDP or TCP network protocols. When the notification is sent over TCP using GNTP http callbacks and both local and remote icons are supported.

OPTIONS

-a APPLICATION application name , defaults to gntp-send

-n NOTIFICATION notification name , defaults to gntp-send notify

-s HOST:PORT , -s HOST host and port to send notification to , host defaults to localhost and the port defaults to the protocol default (tcp: 23053 , udp: 9887) , you can specify the host only and the port defaults to the protocol default

-p PASSWORD password , defaults to not attempting authentication

-u send the notification over UDP , by default the notification is sent over TCP using GNTP

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

title mandatory , title of the notification

message mandatory , notification message

icon optional , local file name or url of icon for the notification

url optional , url to call if the notification is clicked

DIAGNOSTICS Setting the environmental variable GNTP_DEBUG will cause the TCP traffic to be printed to STDOUT

0 if the notification was delivered to Growl , this does not mean it was accepted

-1 otherwise