Program to read desktop alarms and send notification

Hello

I am using and older Win10-PC to monitor and collect data from our greenhouse. It had a little tool which would email the alarms from an ancient software to an telegram bot. That stopped working after the last update, I don’t think the company will ever fix it.
My idea is to have another software which is reading the desktop content and will generate and alarm or send an email as soon as it finds some trigger words in a popup windows (like “humidity too low”). I just found screen reader programs for disabled people to read out loud, but nothing like a text-monitoring software.

Does anybody have an idea?

Tad confusing.

  1. How is monitoring done at the Win10 side? Is there a proprietary software? How is the connection from the PC to the sensors done?
  2. What “ancient software”? What stopped working? The tool, the software, the email part, the telgram part?
  3. Don’t hesitate to give names and references of your components.

You are right, so here it goes:

  • the connection sensors to software is done via a Netafim climate controller.
  • the ancient software is NMCnet 4.07.25, a software to monitor and controll the Netafim climate and irrigation controller.
  • the NMC Email plugin V2 stopped working. This standalone software was monitoring the alarms in the NMCnet and broadcasting it to emails.
  • nothing in here is HA, but at least till now I got an email and a telegram message as an alarm. That’s why I wrote this question in the uncategorized section.

I just realized this post was from a year ago (I came across it searching for something else), but I already wrote a reply so I’ll leave it just in case OP logs in again. Maybe you solved this by now, but in case you didn’t…

At some point you might want to consider updating the hardware to something a little more “modern” (as much as I hate that word), or at least more widely supported.

I am not sure how many different sensors, zones, etc. are involved here, but you very likely could pull something like this off with an ESPHome device and a few other bits for a very small amount of money.

Just some food for thought.