A small program using MQTT to listen to the output of various processes running locally and spit them out as desktop notifications. Given the right credentials. It will also tweet.
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
[twitter]
consumer_key = <consumer_key>
consumer_secret = <consumer_secret>
access_key = <access_key>
access_secret = <access_secret>
tweet = False
[mqtt]
server = 127.0.0.1
port = 1883
clientname = mqtt2notify
topics = wx/EI7IG-1/#, house/office/sat/#, house/energy/owl/pv
[gps]
lat = 52.0000
long = -7.0000
[logging]
level = logging.INFO