There is an applescript rules api which I believe will do what you want.
Here is the documentation:

http://growl.info/documentation/applescript-rules

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:49 PM, David Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you for your post. I checked and both systems had pending updates. I
> completed all pending updates and was still getting the hourly notification
> from both. I tried turning off the "automatically check for updates" but
> was still receiving the notifications. So I'm not too sure what else could
> be triggering it. It would be nice if you could selectively toggle off or
> block certain notifications, like this one. My Prowl notification goes off
> twice an hour because of this however the goal was to tell me if other more
> important volumes became unmounted but anything useful just gets buried in
> these useless notifications.
>
> On Sunday, 3 July 2016 18:44:41 UTC-4, rlhamil wrote:
>>
>> That sounds kind of like Mac App Store checking for updates - it does
>> that, in OS versions where the Recovery partition exists (and probably
>> where the Mac App Store also handles OS X updates).  I think I've seen
>> Parallels do that too, when starting a VM.  If you have Parallels set up to
>> run Windows from the Boot Camp partition, it will also unmount that before
>> starting the VM, and remount it in a different way while the VM is running,
>> and reverse that when the VM is shut down.  And Chrome (and probably
>> others) that check for updates themselves will download and mount a .dmg
>> file containing the updates, and unmount it and clean up when they're done.
>>
>> All these mounts and unmounts were happening already - HardwareGrowler is
>> just letting you know they're happening.
>>
>> All I have found about Mac App Store update check frequency suggests that
>> the default is once every seven days, and past Lion, no longer has an
>> obvious preference to set it.
>>
>> http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/02/23/change-how-often-mac-checks-software-updates/
>>
>> provides some more detail; but it shows the granularity in whole days,
>> not something shorter.  So it does seem strange to me why it should be
>> checking hourly.  Could that be a retry interval if it fails?  That is,
>> have you tried running the App Store app on them by hand to see what
>> happens, and attempt to install any pending updates?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 1:32 PM, David Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> After installing HardwareGrowler I get hourly notifications from both of
>>> my machines stating that Recovery HD has been mounted and then immediately
>>> unmounted.
>>>
>>> V2.1.3 Growl
>>> V2.2 HardwareGrowler
>>> OSX 10.11.4 for both machines
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