RenderReminder

What It Does

Sends an email and plays a sound to notify you when your Blender render is finished!

How to Install and Use

Click the image below to view the Install Guide on YouTube:

How It Works

This addon uses Python _(smtplib, aud)_ to send an email and play a sound effect once your render is ready.

Blender has a system called App Handlers that run when specific events happen in the application.

The notification function runs once Blender reports that a render has completed.

The addon will also play a short Blender synthesized sound effect when the render is finished.

The sound could be one of two internally generated SFX, or you can load your own sound file.

The email and sound notifications can be used separately or in combination, selected via the checkboxes in the addon's preferences.

You can add multiple email addresses to the __'Send To:'__ field, separated by commas.

Limitations

Your render MUST have a name and file extension.Blender's default is to render to a temporary directory with no filename. Without a filename and extension, the email will fail to send and you will not be notified.

It uses Gmail and you will need to make sure that [Allow less secure apps is set to ON](https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps) to send the messages.

I signed up for a separate Gmail account with lower security settings to use as my 'Send From' account, and that sends notification emails to my main email.

You can fork and customize for your own preferred email service.

It will work for images or animations, however, there may be issues with attachment file size limits if you're dealing with video.

FYI: In order to save the images the addon sets Blender's render option (write_still=True), it is set normally False.