Self send a notification when bluetooth disconnects

[uniformbuffer]

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Self send a notification when bluetooth disconnects

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Hi, i was wondering if it could be possible to make InfiniTime self send a notification when bluetooth disconnects. There are some use cases where i think it could be very useful:

• Some Linux systems do not have the ability to auto-reconnect to a disconnected device, so is required the user to manually pair the smartwatch again. Having such notification would make possible to reconnect as soon as it disconnects.
• If the user left the phone somewhere before leaving a place, having a bluetooth disconnect notification could avoid to forgot it

Thanks for listening, have a good day.

[geekbozu]

So are you thinking just having the watch vibrate or similar when BLE disconnects? This would very much need to be configurable. I leave my watch on the desk when I am at the office so I have probably >100 D/C events a day. Getting a buzz every time...would be interesting :)

[uniformbuffer]

So are you thinking just having the watch vibrate or similar when BLE disconnects?

Yes, a simple notification with written something like "Bluetooth disconnected" or similar would work (so that it would also trigger the one time vibration).

This would very much need to be configurable. I leave my watch on the desk when I am at the office so I have probably >100 D/C events a day. Getting a buzz every time...would be interesting :)

I see, i wrongly supposed that generally smartwatch and smartphone are on the person at the same time and if if not, something is going wrong. Having it configurable would be great. I have also tried to introduce this feature into my bluetooth daemon, but i have quickly realized that i cannot send a disconnect notification to a disconnected device, but it would need on device support ^^

[heyhewmike]

So are you thinking just having the watch vibrate or similar when BLE disconnects?

Yes, a simple notification with written something like "Bluetooth disconnected" or similar would work (so that it would also trigger the one time vibration). I have been searching for a similar feature. I had left my phone in a motel shuttle van. My bluetooth headset disconnect alert alerted me to my phone not being on me. Possibly have the one time vibration be different than the regular notification, such as an "Error" notification(SOS), would be preferred for me as it would stand out because sometimes I ignore the regular notifications.

This would very much need to be configurable. I leave my watch on the desk when I am at the office so I have probably >100 D/C events a day. Getting a buzz every time...would be interesting :)

I see, i wrongly supposed that generally smartwatch and smartphone are on the person at the same time and if if not, something is going wrong. Having it configurable would be great. I have also tried to introduce this feature into my bluetooth daemon, but i have quickly realized that i cannot send a disconnect notification to a disconnected device, but it would need on device support ^^

[geekbozu]

So after thinking about this more, Id love to have this as a configurable....I leave my phone in bad places all the time. Once we get a better way of sending programmatic notifications I'm sure someone will visit this :)

[ildar]

This feature is very handy per my experience with Samsung Gear S3. But technically I think that the detection delay will be huge due to BLE. Gear uses both BLE and normal BT connection so detection time is very short.

[jtempletmg]

It's bee a few years on this but I'd like to up-vote this feature request. I left my phone at work yesterday and had to go back and get it. Had I gotten a disconnect notification I would have saved myself a trip. A simple "Phone disconnected" notification with a vibration would do the trick. And I agree with what others have said; having it be configurable would be nice as not everyone will want that notification.