Tracking your render progress Doing high quality renders requieres too much time, we all know that.

Up until now I have always been roughtly calculating when I have to start then next render and many times it has ment getting up in the middle of the night to start up the next one.

Is there anyway to track the progress, for example when a render is done to get an alarm on Windows or on my phone?
I am not sure you are still struggling with your render as its a late answer. But may be useful for some one else too.

Its not good to do that manually or set the finished alarm.

I will take back you to 90's where we can set the commands in command prompt in a batch, using batch files.

Lets say you want to render two files you may use it like this

cd C:\Users\Me\Downloads\blender-2.79-windows64 

blender -b "D:\Path\Train 001.001.blend" -s 1 -e 2 -a

blender -b "D:\Path\Train 002.001.blend" -s 2 -e 4 -a


The first line is for the blender exe file path, you may set it according to your system.

The second and third lines are for rendering two different files and different frames.

You may save the above code in a text file and save it anywhere in your computer and with any name but extension should be .bat

Now right click on file (.bat) we just created and Run as administrator 

You may add as much files and frames as you like 

or have several interesting and useful render options here Command Line