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Notification module help
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I really like the notification module. But it seems as if the alerts can only be triggered by the app opening. Is there a way to trigger alerts by time of day perhaps?
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@torch0395
The delay argument lets you set the date, though a little indirectly, since you must subtract out current time from the future date:dalay=time.mktime(time.strptime('20191231 1159','%Y%m%d %H%M'))-time.time()You can then check the fire_date on the resulting notification to verify you got it correct, using strftime
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If I want a repeating notification would I just get rid of the date? I need a notification at 6:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM etc..
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Sorry I forgot to tag @JonB
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@torch0395 you might want to look at
remindersmodule, depending on what you are trying to achieve. not sure if you can set up repeating alarms, but it is more geared towards alarms at specific date/times.to set up a repeating notification, you have to schedule each and every one. I used to use notifications to run a script to auto-renew my library books -- i had one or two active scheduled, then when the script action ran, it scheduled the next one or two times.
i feel like ios8 made it much easier for notifications to get buried/lost. not sure about more recent versions... but that sort of soured me on depending on notifications. now i just use a cron job on my pc.
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@JonB I did actually look into that. I just liked the notifications because you can customize the message and URL when you open notification. I trade and use pythonista as a personal trading assisant. So let's at 9:30 AM est time I was hoping it could send me notifcation to say "U.S market open". When I open the notification it would bring me to my script and I could begin my work for that part of the day. Thank you for your help though
