Render Notifications v1.0.0

🛎️ Render Notifications – Blender Add-on

This is the first public release of the Render Notifications Blender add-on.

It allows you to receive notifications when a render starts, finishes, or gets cancelled using:

• 🔔 Desktop Notifications
• 💬 Discord Webhooks
• 🌐 Custom Webhooks (e.g. Home Assistant for mobile notifications)

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✨ Features

• Calculates estimated total render time after first frame
• Discord message auto-edits with each frame progress
  • Sends first and last frame previews (if enabled)
• Send JSON data to your own server or webhook-based services

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📥 Installation

1. Download Render-Notifications.zip from the Assets below.
2. In Blender:
   • Go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons
   • Click Install, then select this ZIP
   • Enable the add-on from the list

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📸 Notification Previews

Desktop Notifications

Discord Notifications

Webhooks

Example of mobile a notifications sent via homeassistant.
Example of mobile a notifications sent via Homeassisstant automation yaml files can be found in the templates folder. Check the readme file for the JSON payload examples for your own webhook services.

Add-on version: 1.0.0
Blender: 4.3+
License: GPLv3

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