Notification sounds

ihf

Am I correct that without a jailbreak to add sounds to the standard set, there is no way to crate a notification (alarm) that will play a user supplied sound?

JonB

I believe this should be possible with the objc_utils module, but I have not tried yet.

ihf

I thought that Notifications could only use the system provided sounds but if there is a way to do it using obc_utils that would be great.

JonB

Reading a little deeper, the sound needs to be part of the main bundle. You can use the names of sounds that come with pythonista, but not outside of the readonly Bundle/Application folder

shtek

the sound needs to be part of the main bundle. You can use the names of sounds that come with pythonista, but not outside of the readonly Bundle/Application folder

@JonB what does this mean?

just tried this:

import  notification
notification.schedule(message='test', delay=5,sound_name='drums:Drums_15')

always got a system default sound.

is drums:Drums_15 in the readonly Bundle/Application folder?

some webpage said need to hard reboot :
http://www.ibtimes.sg/how-fix-ios-10-notifications-sound-alerts-sound-issue-whatsapp-others-3572

tried but no effect

JonB

>>> help(notification.schedule)
schedule(message, delay=0, sound_name=None, action_url=None)
    Note: Sounds from the 'digital' and 'game' collections are supported

I tried these, and it didnt work, though the sound name does show up in the ObjC notification.... so, it is getting set, but ios is still playing the default. Not sure if this is an ipad thing (i feel like my ipad only ever plays default?) or a later ios version thing (this was depreciated i think in 10)

@omz?

omz

I can confirm that this currently doesn't work as intended, but there's a workaround:

import notification

notification.schedule('Test', delay=5, sound_name='Media/Sounds/drums/Drums_15')

The same pattern ('Media/Sounds/<collection>/<name>') should work with any of the bundled sounds, not just the 'digital' and 'game' collections.