Alarm notification

[Ianseeks]

On Tuesday, 24 August 2021 10:05:43 BST Jiří Wolker wrote:
> On 24. 08. 21 9:32, Ianseeks wrote:> Is there anyway I can get a 
> notification on my desktop when the alarm on my phone activates (android 
> 8)?  I get a notification to say that its been set up and thats the end 
> of it.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> AFAIK, there is not such feature. I have found 3 methods to get alarm 
> notifications implemented. All of them have some limitations.

Thanks for the update, shame its so difficult. 
 
A question:  
As there is a notification to say that there is an alarm set at a specific time, the correct info is sent to the desktop.
Could there be a config item in the desktop kdeconnect settings for "Alarm" where you specify a local program (eg. kalarm) with a 
time parameter that sets the alarm locally?


> Getting alarm list
> ──────────────────
> 
> According to this Stack Overflow question (link below), it is not 
> possible to get list of active alarms (that were created using the 
> system-provided clock app) without having either root permissions or ADB 
> shell access, and therefore the KDEConnect app cannot be able to get 
> alarm information to the desktop.
> 
> It would be nice feature, but Android does not provide any means to do 
> that (on device that is not rooted) – for example, controlling the 
> Android device remotely would be also quite good feature, but similar 
> limitations apply.
> 
> → Not possible (without using root access).
> 
> Detection of the “alarm ringing” activity
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> 
> I do not know how the alarms in the clock app on Android work, but maybe 
> it is possible to detect whether the “alarm ringing” activity is opened. 
> That would not allow showing the alarm name on desktop and it would not 
> be possible to get vibrate/ring/silent/… settings, but at the 
> notification could show *whether* the alarm rings.
> 
> Many device manufacturers perform various modifications to the system 
> and these modifications could possibly break this functionality. Even 
> changing clock app ID or activity name would break such notification.
> 
> → Possible, but very brittle when manufacturer's custom UI is used. 
> Alarm would not ring when disconnected and no metadata about alarm would 
> be available.
> 
> Parsing the ongoing alarm notifications
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> 
> KDEConnect app is able to read the notifications and it could parse it 
> and provide information about alarms. That would be possible, but even 
> subtle modification of notification text (done by manufacturer's 
> modifications, by update etc.) would break it.
> 
> → Breaks easily, but provides metadata and alarm information *before* 
> the alarm rings.
> 
>                                  •  •  •
> 
> The promised link:
> 
>      https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21949522/
> 


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