I am looking for a tool that would make my office life a bit easier. While I don't really like the online-ness of IFTTT (and I am not allowed to use it in the office anyway), from what I read and heard about IFTTT, that sounds much what I'm looking for.
E.g. I'd like
- if a file changes, pop up a notice
- if a file changes and certain content was found, play a sound
- if the screensaver starts, suspend the VMs and take a snapshot
- if I am away from keyboard for >5 minutes, run some unit tests (basically: run a program)
- every 20 minutes, remind me of drinking some water
- very minute, check the availability of servers and notify me if one is not available
- if my IP address changes, enable the firewall
- if I'm in the office before 8:00, do a HTTP request to wake up the server and start caching (haha, those pieces need a restart every night and are really slow if you access them the first time)
- ...
The program
- must run offline, i.e. is a local installation. As mentioned before, it should have some online features like HTTP, Ping etc.
- should cost <300 USD. If it is that expensive, it should be worth the money and really be a time saver.
- should be available as a perpetual personal license that allows being installed on a PC and laptop at the same time
- must work on Windows 7 SP1 x64 and Windows 10 x64, Windows 8 and 8.1 not necessarily required
I am not looking for a programming language suggestion. I know C# and I could implement all that myself if I just had the time. I also know Windows Task scheduler can run tasks at certain times.
I have tried:
- Microsoft Power Automate, but it cannot react on file content changes, cannot react on IP address change, cannot determine the user idle time of the PC and does not provide an event system at all. Any event-like action needs to be modelled as an endless loop.
