[Feature Request]: Quiet hours for external notifications

[jschollenberger]

Platform

NRF52

Description

I have the "external notification" buzzer enabled for my SenseCAP Card Tracker T1000-E which I leave powered on and plugged in full time. It's loud and works great to alert me when I get a new message. It's so loud that I can hear it from a few rooms away. I'd love not to hear it when I am asleep 😴.

Perhaps there are some other devices which would benefit from this as well. The T1000-E doesn't have a vibration motor or notification LED, but I could see those benefitting from the same quiet hours.

I'm not sure the status of the clock/rtc on some of these devices, but perhaps they would have to rely on a phone or GPS, complicating the implementation.

[b8b8]

Since the T1000E does not have a screen and you require the phone to be within bluetooth range for any interaction, may i ask the purpose of the external notification buzzer in this instance?

Why not just listen for your phone notifications in your pocket and set sleep hours on the phone or otherwise control the phone notifications?

[jschollenberger]

A fair question for sure. I like the buzzer for two reasons. The first is that the android app seems to die/crash often, so the buzzer is a much more reliable indicator that I should look at the app. The other is that the buzzer also is an indication for me to look over to my other node that is connected via my PC. So it works well for me, but might be a less common use case.

[Slankydudl]

ditto here, I prefer the headless setup, but without a buzzer or led for notifications the app, android or ios is just too unreliable