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Announce time every 5 minutes

Posted: 04 Nov 2018 19:07
by cjt7777
I use my phone whilst in the gym but its awkward to access my phone and there's no easily visible clocks. So, I'd like a simple flow that announces the time every 5 mins so I know when I have to leave to get back to work.

Any help is appreciated!

Re: Announce time every 5 minutes

Posted: 04 Nov 2018 22:57
by digitalstone
From your trigger, place a "Speech Output" action of which text is like:

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The time is {getDate(),dateformat,HH:mm}
Then simply connect it to a "Sleep" action for the x-amount of minutes.
And loop this one back to the Speech Output action.

Re: Announce time every 5 minutes

Posted: 05 Nov 2018 10:40
by Helios
You probably want to have a look into this trigger:

https://automagic4android.com/en/help/c ... odic_timer

You can configure it to run every 5min. The connect this trigger to the speech output action as indicated by digitalstone.

The main problem with the "sleep+loop" approach is that the flow keeps running all the time, thus consuming more energy.
The periodic timer should - as far as I know - be more efficient.

Re: Announce time every 5 minutes

Posted: 05 Nov 2018 11:30
by cjt7777
Thank you both,

Will give these a try and report back... :D

Re: Announce time every 5 minutes

Posted: 06 Nov 2018 08:58
by cjt7777
Cheers guys,

I've got this working!