Render Notifications – Stay Updated While You Render

Get notified the moment your Blender renders start, finish, or get cancelled — via Discord, desktop popups, or third-party webhooks for custom platforms like Home Assistant.

Render Notifications is a Blender extension that gives you frame by frame alerts. It keeps you in the loop on render time, progress estimates, and final completion — perfect for when you step away or want updates via Discord or smart home integrations.

Perfect for artists who:

• Step away while rendering
• Want to integrate with Discord, mobile apps, or automation tools

• Work with remote render setups

Features:

Desktop Alerts:

• Get notified the moment your render starts, finishes or is cancelled _ right on your desktop
• With support for optional custom .wav sounds

Discord Render Updates:

• Send frame by frame updates to your private discord channel while blender renders in the background
• Automatically edits message with progress
• Send previews of signal frame or first and last frame of your animation render job

Third-party Webhook integration:

• Sends structured JSON payloads to your custom apps or third-party services — ideal for Home Assistant, IFTTT, mobile dashboards, or other automation tools. Perfect for integrating real-time render notifications into your workflows.

Version 1.3.0

• UI Changes:

  • Addon is no longer at the top of the render properties and is now in it's own collapsible panel in the render properties

• Added simple messages to third-party webhooks for chat applications that support webhooks, but can not modify the payload

  • Simple messages can be customised in the addon preferences or in the addon panel. by default, it will use the addon preferences.
  • You can attach some render data to the message

• Removed discord webhook from third-party webhook payload

• Total frames and ETA adjust to frame step in the blender scene

Version 1.2.4

• Added back compatibility for blender 5.0 and lower
• Blender version range: v4.3.2 - v5.1

Note: Updating on blender 5.1, disable and reenable the addon.

Version 1.2.3

• Updated python dependencies to be compatible with blender 5.1
• Not backwards compatible with previous blender versions cause blender 5.1 updated to python 3.13

Note: Blender updated to python 3.13, so this version is not compatible with blender 5.0 and lower. Use version 1.2.2 for older versions of blender.

Version 1.2.2

• Fixed an issue where the discord subprocess was using the incorrect library path.

Version 1.2.0

• Switched from threading to subprocess, no longer blocking blender when a message is sent to discord

• Excluded templates/homeassistant from the extension folder

• Renamed the webhook notification to third-party webhook notifications to make it more distinct to the discord webhooks URL when configuring the extensions preferences tabs