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This should send a message to your (iPhone) telephone number. Please note that you can't send an iMessage to yourself. Sending it to an alias may work. Other similar (Apple)scripts are available here: How to send an imessage text with applescript, only in provided service?

This should send a message to your (iPhone) telephone number. Please note that you can't send an iMessage to yourself. Sending it to an alias may work. Other similar (Apple)scripts are available here: How to send an imessage text with applescript, only in provided service?

To send a message after a triggering event do the following - change <user_name> to your OS X short username and <telephone_number> to an appropriate telephone number below:

• Create a dir and change to it:

    mkdir ~/.soundmeter
    cd ~/.soundmeter
  

• Create an AppleScript:

    nano sendMessage.applescript
  

with the content:

    on run {targetBuddyPhone, targetMessage}
        tell application "Messages"
            set targetService to 1st service whose service type = iMessage
            set targetBuddy to buddy targetBuddyPhone of targetService
            send targetMessage to targetBuddy
        end tell
    end run

• Create a shell script:

    nano sendMessage.sh
  

with the content:

    #!/bin/bash

    osascript /Users/<user_name>/.soundmeter/sendMessage.applescript <telephone_number> "Another Arabica bean died"

and change the permissions:

    chmod 755 sendMessage.sh

• Now start soundmeter with a command like this:

    soundmeter -t +38 -a exec -e /Users/<user_name>/.soundmeter/sendMessage.sh
  

This should send a message to your (iPhone) telephone number. Please note that you can't send an iMessage to yourself. Sending it to an alias may work. Other similar (Apple)scripts are available here: How to send an imessage text with applescript, only in provided service?

Simply running soundmeter will output an RMS value. After defining a threshold you can trigger a shell script action (which may itself trigger an AppleScript script) with the -e switch.

Simply running soundmeter will output an RMS value. After defining a threshold you can trigger a shell script action (which may itself trigger an AppleScript script) with the -e switch.