Sound Alert requires an additional package on macOS about impftermin-checker HOT 4 CLOSED

Unfortunately I have no MacOS device to test this 🙁 Can you confirm that the issue can be fixed via pip3 install -U PyObjC? Then we can add it to the readme 🙂

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Sadly I didn't hear anything when I revived a notification. I had PyObjC installed though.

I did test on playsound() and it worked. Not quite sure why it didn't trigger.

Maybe the system output and volume need to be set?

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Maybe the system output and volume need to be set?

At least on Linux, playsound() just behaves as every media player would do and uses the standard system audio device and the current system volume as set by the user. Not sure if Mac OS behaves differently here.

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Yeah, I followed this advice: https://stackoverflow.com/q/47270354
I don't know if AppKit as a package is minimal enough, but certainly PyObjC did solve the issues (probably pulls in AppKit).

For me, playsound did work and I heard the sounds, actually the alarm is quite offensive, on full volume you can even hear it from the distance.

If direct playsound() works, maybe it was a user error? Like your volume was low at that point? It doesn't automatically bump the volume.
The only other alternative I could see is like if the e-mail works, but then there's an exception causing the script to not play a sound.

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