~mil/sxmo-tickets#377: Alarm clock script

It would be nice to have an alarm clock by default.

There exists a very basic user script: https://git.sr.ht/~anjan/sxmo-userscripts/tree/master/item/alarm.sh

It would be nice to have a slightly more convenient way to set up and modify an alarm. Perhaps using dmenu to set time and modify it? Problem is that the common functionality quickly becomes complex enough to warrant a small application.

I think it would be nice if it could:

Set a time
Stop the alarm
Snooze
Delete But possibly also:
List alarms
Modify
Set a duration
Alarm without a date (timer)
...

Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Submitter: ~murks
Assigned to: No-one
Submitted: 3 years ago
Updated: 2 years ago
Labels: feature

~begs 3 years ago

It's Unix, you can just do sleep 12h && aplay /dev/urandom

~edp17 3 years ago

Just did a quick search and found these: https://github.com/jahendrie/shalarm https://github.com/mkscrg/alarm-clock

~proycon added feature 3 years ago

~lisael 2 years ago

I gave a shot at this, here's my design:
the alarm list is the crontab (no other disc writes)
an alarm cron entry is of this form (<script> <action> <message> <uid>):
 25 7 * * 1-5 sxmo_rtcwake.sh /home/user/.local/bin/alarm.sh repeat 'Wake Up!' xesEsQRV
alarm.sh has those subcommands:
ring <message>: ring the alarm, open a menu to either stop or snooze

once <message> <uid>: remove the cron entry (found by uid) and call ring

add <crontime> <message> <action ("once" or "repeat")>: add a cron task

list: list registered alarms

disable <uid>: disable an alarm (comment the line in the crontab)

enable <uid>: enable an alarm (uncomment in the crontab)

remove <uid>: remove the crontab entry

repeat <message> <uid>: ignore the uid and call ring <message> Targets the crontab tasks, the uid has no use in the command but identifies the line in the list for managment purpose (enable/disable/remove...)

snooze <message> <uid>: an alias of once, used to differenciate snozed alarm from user-set "once" alarms in the list

set-alarm.sh UI script:

main menu is a list (mnc-ordered) of existing alarms (with a toggle icon to show enabled status) and a Add entry

Add asks for a time (HH:MM or crontab-style), once or repeat, and a message

choosing an alarm in the main menu opens an edit menu to enable/disable/remove/edit time or message)

I use working code implementing much of this design (I'm tweaking the Edit UI at the moment). It's probably not clean enough, but I may send a patch soon.

~phartman REPORTED FIXED 2 years ago

Very cool. We have an alarm script in userscripts too now.