migrated to dbus notifications via dbus

hack_count

-#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
-import urllib 
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import dbus
+import urllib.request
 import json
-import pynotify
 import argparse
 import os
 import time
 import sys
 
+
 USER_HOME=os.path.expanduser("~")
 CACHE_FOLDER=os.path.join(str(USER_HOME),".cache/hack_count")
 CACHE_FILE="hack_count.json"
 CACHE_PATH=os.path.join(str(CACHE_FOLDER),str(CACHE_FILE))
 count_changed=True
 
+
+item = ('org.freedesktop.Notifications')
+path = ('/org/freedesktop/Notifications')
+interface = ('org.freedesktop.Notifications')
+
+icon = ''
+array = ''
+hint = ''
+time = 10000   # Use seconds x 1000
+app_name = ('Hack-Space User Count')
+title = ('Hackspace User')
+body = ('')
+
+
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 
     ###parser
@@ -27,15 +43,15 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     parser.add_argument("-i","--interval",type=int,help="Interval for\
             update default=30",default=30)
     args = parser.parse_args()
-    
 
     while True :
         ##fetch usercount
-        var = urllib.urlopen("http://hack-hro.de/api/users")
+        var = urllib.request.urlopen("http://hack-hro.de/api/users")
         #var = urllib.urlopen("http://172.16.42.107:3000/api/users")
         
         json_string = var.read()
-        json_dict = json.loads(json_string)
+        #print(json_string)
+        json_dict = json.loads(json_string.decode('ascii'))
         device_count = json_dict['deviceCount']
         users = json_dict['users']
 
@@ -71,19 +87,19 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
             iofile.close()
                ##notification
         if args.notify:
-            if not pynotify.init("HackHro"):
-                sys.exit(1)
+
+            ###init dbus notifications
+            bus = dbus.SessionBus()
+            notif = bus.get_object(item, path)
+            notify = dbus.Interface(notif, interface)
+
             #create notification
-            n = pynotify.Notification("DeviceCount", str(device_count)+" Devices")
-            if count_changed :
-                if not n.show() :
-                    print ("Failed to send notification")
-                    sys.exit(1)
-                count_changed = False
+            notify.Notify(app_name, 0, icon, title, str(device_count), array, hint, time)
+            count_changed = False
 
         ##print count
         if args.printing == True:
-            print "HackHro Users: ",device_count
+            print ("HackHro Users: ",device_count)
         if not args.daemonize == True :
             sys.exit(0)
         time.sleep(args.interval)