Pause alerts during the night

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Cyber@feddit.uk⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Well, as the title says, I’ve had a few notifications that alerted over night and I’m wanting to sleep instead

These are ntfy alerts, but driven by Uptime Kuma… and I can’t find a programmatic / config option that says “don’t notify between 11pm and 7am” (but willing to admit I’ve just not found it… yet…)

I need my (Android, ofc) phone to be on in case of family calls / messages, so I can’t use “Do Not Disturb”, and remembering to manually mute the ntfy app each night just doesn’t make sense to me - computers are quite capable of automating my requirements for me.

So… any pointers? I’m sure you’re not all getting alerts at 2am because your ISP dropped a few packets…

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vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Do not Disturb on my phone has the option to turn off everything except alarms and/or calls from a variety of sources. It can be set to be active at certain times of the day.

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- JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  True, but if you are not from America, many many people use VOIP calling on apps like WhatsApp to call.
  
  DnD priority overrides don’t work for that.
  
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  - K4mpfie@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s not right. As long as they are excluded from DnD with their phone number, Android will let them through. It even says so in the settings (feddit.de still has image upload issues but the info states that “Even if messaging and calling apps can’t reach you, people that you choose here can still reach you through those apps”)
    
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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  As best I can tell, on Android, while there is scheduling, there isn’t a way to trivially say “enter do-not-disturb mode for the next N minutes/hours on a one-off basis”, which is normally what I want. I don’t want to set up a schedule; I just want to silence the thing without having to worry about forgetting to re-enable the mode. It seems like an odd omission.
  
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  - Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Works for me
    
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    Also lets me pick apps that bypass it:
    
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  - gsfraley@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I can confirm both Pixels and Samsung phones have that feature (1/2/4 hours or indefinite). On my current phone (Samsung) you get the option by holding the DND button.
    
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  - vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I have the option for a schedule,a fixed time, or ask everytime.
    
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  - owatnext@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Works on LineageOS 21. 1000015831
    
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  - Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I can do this on android 10.
    
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teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Modern Android Do Not Disturb is configurable enough for you to do this. Allow your family contacts through, block the rest.

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marcos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ll second people here in pointing that you are better allowing calls from your family during the “Do Not Disturb” than trying to set-up things not to call you during that time. Your phone almost certainly has a setting that allows “favorite contacts” or something like it.

It has a better configuration orthogonality :)

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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I need my (Android, ofc) phone to be on in case of family calls / messages, so I can’t use “Do Not Disturb”

Add them to your contacts that are allowed to bypass do not disturb?

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- Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is the obvious solution, I don’t understand people that are hesitating using DND
  
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- Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Not OP, but AFAIK that doesn’t work for Whatsapp or other in-app calls, and since my family lives in another continent if there’s an emergency they’ll call via WhatsApp.
  
  An argument could be made that because I live far away I don’t need to be informed of emergencies right away, but there are cases in which I would like that, even if just to buy a same day ticket to go back as soon as possible.
  
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  - Willdrick@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I just checked and at least on LineageOS 21 (android 14) you indeed can add specific apps (and notification categories, eg calls) to bypass do not disturb
    
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tvcvt@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You can set maintenance schedules in Uptime Kuma and alerts won’t be sent out during those times. I use that for when my backup routines run each night. That seems like a decent cross-platform work around.

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- Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hmm, thanks, that seems like a good starting point - I’d not explored that entire option! Thanks
  
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NumerousGeorg@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If it’s just the ntfy app that sends these alerts it should be easy enough to send the developers of that app a feature request to implement a sleep mode which can be scheduled to mute the notifications.

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- Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Of course, but IMHO it’s worth checking the alternatives first before requesting an “obvious” (but only to me) feature that someone spends hours of their free time working on…
  
  I was orignally hoping that the built-in mute could be scheduled, so that might be a suggestion.
  
  So far DnD appears to be the option for me, now that I’ve thought about it more (after reading these comments) rather than trying to pause ntfy, gotify, etc…
  
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peregus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I had a similar problem and I’ve resolved it with Tasker; it’s different from yurt need, but I guess that you can work on it I’ve created an automation that disable notifications except for phone calls between 10PM and 5AM AND when the phone is connected to a power source AND it trigger when I place the smartphone face down.

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- Cyber@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hmm. Interesting, just from the face down point of view… kinda like the “hide the screen = do not disturb” pov.
  
  Thanks
  
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