Feature Request: Repeat alarm tone

[agross]

Hi,

Thanks for writing this app. In order for reminders to be unmissable, I need (am used to) the alarm sound firing off repeatedly, possibly also with ascending volume.

My currently used app did that for years, so I'm very used to these kind of (deliberately) intrusive notifications. What I would like to see is something along these lines:

1. Open full-screen notification
2. Repeat sound for 1 minute
3. Increase volume during that time
4. If the reminder was not handled:
5. Keep the notification (with options to dismiss and snooze)
6. After 10 minutes, go back to 1.

How does that sound (no pun intended)?

FYI, I'm talking about this app which is no longer maintained.

[crispy235]

Just adding a +1 to this - I was also using Calendar Event Reminder which stopped working for me some time ago but when it was working the essential feature for me was the above - ie overriding everything else on the device until the snooze has been acknowledged. I just installed your app and was disappointed to find it was only a normal notification which can easily be dismissed inadvertently.

Note I paid for CER and would be willing to pay for yours too.

Many thanks.

[smichel17]

If you uncheck Notification Settings > Notification behavior > Allow notification swipe, then you need to hit the dismiss button in order to get rid of it. This is what I do and in combination with the Reminders feature (Remind interval: 1 Minute), it's pretty difficult to accidentally dismiss or ignore.

Honestly this app does pretty much everything I could want from calendar reminders. The only thing I think it needs is cleaning up the settings a little bit so stuff like this is easier to find and understand (and honestly even that is pretty good, considering just how many settings there are).

[agross]

@smichel17 That sounds like a workaround. I want the nonfiction sound to be continuous for say 1 minute, then silence for 5 minutes, again notification sound for 1 minute ad infinitum until either a max timeout is reached or until I explicitly dismiss or snooze. This is what my current reminder app does and this pattern works very well for me.

[smichel17]

I can see how that would be nice, and you're right, this app can't do that (although it can get close with a workaround: set a minute-long sound file for your alarm).

I set mine to go off 20 minutes before I have to leave (ie, a few minutes before I have to start getting ready) and beep at me once a minute for the next 20 or until I dismiss it. I find this is a good balance between "too easy to ignore" and "too annoying and inflexible that I just get frustrated and stop using it".

[quarck]

Hi Guys,

I would agree this functionality would be useful, and I would try implementing at some later stage. But I'm very limited in the amount of time I have for this app, so please don't expect it anytime soon (unfortunately).

P.S. Just one note on a workaround with 1-minute reminders: in the latest version of this app it is now possible to enable experimental feature - "sub-minute reminder intervals" (need to be enabled under Misc options). With this enabled app would allow setting reminder intervals as short as 15 seconds, so no need to set a minute-long ringtone to get it constantly ringing - 15 seconds ringtone would do.

[crispy235]

Thanks a lot for the suggestions guys and actually the minute long alarm is now working really well for me - also very surprised to find I am able to select the required snooze time on my LG Smartwatch as this was never possible on the old app.

Thanks for the app quarck and keep up the good work - it really is the best of the lot out there!

[stellarpower]

I'd also love an alarm-like feature. I have been searching for years for this on Android and never found anything that actually works, and have resorted to writing something like this in Automate. I'd say I'd implement it myself but I'm not an Android developer and when I usually go to make small simple changes to existing source code it always tends to take me a lot longer than expected. That said if I had some guidance I'd try my best to implement this.

All I think is needed to be really helpful would be an alarm activity that is visible without unlocking the phone that has a snooze and a dismiss button, possibly to be dragged upwards but not necessary, and plays a sound on the alarm channel persistently until either button is pressed. A timeout after 5 minutes or whatever would also be useful but I think that is also an extra feature. If someone could do this I'd be really grateful as I think this is a feature a lot of people are looking for.

Thanks very much, it is refreshing to see an Android App on Github, too many are paid-for these days.

[canDry]

have resorted to writing something like this in Automate

FYI... you should try out Automagic for android. It is a great tool (much better/easier to use than tasker). https://automagic4android.com/en/
I use it to (among many other automations) take the reminders from this app and extend the functionality (i.e. my phone verbally reads aloud my reminders when I'm at home or in my office.

I just finished modifying Sergey's code to send detailed event info to Automagic (via a broadcast intent) so I don't need to grab it from the limited notification. I might drop a pull request w/ my changes, but they aren't necessary to do basic reminder functions.