Selective notifications push'd to iOS app
Hi there —
One thing that happened to me recently is that the drive attached to my Mac Mini that macOS Security Spy (SS) writes video files to went off-line. (I don't know exactly why, but it may have been when I had a brief power outage and the drive didn't come back up and re-mount.)
I don't know for certain because I have the "Dismiss alerts after one minute" setting checked, but SS may have alerted me to this fact. If it did, I didn't see it because I wasn't looking at the SS application after everything came back up. Anyway, SS kept on displaying video both on macOS and iOS as if nothing was wrong. Two days later, I finally realized that video files weren't being saved because the drive was off-line. I managed to get the drive back online and saving video files resumed.
A feature I'd like to help prevent this situation (meaning, me not being aware that SS is unable to save video files) in the future would be to classify all error messages that SS can give into two categories:
- Informational, that is something unusual or somewhat bad happened, but the problem was intermediate and/or there's nothing the user can do about it anyway. An example of such an error is when SS occasionally says it had a transient error capturing a video frame. (For occasional such errors, there's nothing I can do about this, AFAIK; if the error were persistent, that would prompt investigation.)
- Critical errors, that is something really bad happened and action should be taken ASAP. For example, the path to where SS is supposed to write video files becomes inaccessible.
Given such classification, I'd like a setting in the macOS app to push critical errors to the iOS app so that I would see the alert on my iPhone immediately. If I had such a feature, I would have been alerted as soon as the drive went off-line rather than having to discover it went off-line by chance two days later.
Any chance of such a feature in the future?
— Paul