Wierd problem with Smart Actions

[leesrt]

I set up my Smart Actions for a sleep mode as follows.

Triggers:
-Time 0000-0530
- On charger

Actions:
-Ringer Vol silent
-VIP caller mode
-Background sync off

My goal is for my phone to be silent for everything but the numbers in my VIP list. No email, no text, and no facebook or any other notifications.

Everything seemed good until about 4am when I got a weather warning (Weather Bug Elite) for a wind advisory. When I looked at the phone I could see the alert pop up in the notifications bar with an alert tone, followed by the smart action silencing the phone, and then the alert, and then the smart action....

It got stuck cycling from smart action to the alert in a 2-3 second rotation. It was like they were both fiting for control.

Is there a selection that will prevent that fight from occuring again?

 

[taskellusaf]

I would advise you to control all that through weather bug.... who cares about the wind.... I only turn on notifications if I know there's gonna be tornadoes.... anyways turn off all sounds, excetera through weatherbug elite.

 

[asylvia]

this is the one reason i am not using smart actions for night time. smart actions needs to have a "notifications" enable or disable action for this reason.

 

[asylvia]

so does having background sync to off mean you won't receive anything but phone calls?

 

[Ryan32973]

so does having background sync to off mean you won't receive anything but phone calls?

You WILL get calls with Background Data turned off, my question is what is Data enabled going to do if shut off....?

 

[fatboy97]

Personally, I'd make a change to WeatherBug.... and also, one BIG note to OP (Original Poster): Turning off Background Sync will not stop SMS messages., it will Silence it, but the notification light will still brink... the SMS come over phone, not data.

 

[asylvia]

so is there no way to silence everything but the ringer?

 

[asylvia]

Personally, I'd make a change to WeatherBug.... and also, one BIG note to OP (Original Poster): Turning off Background Sync will not stop SMS messages., it will Silence it, but the notification light will still brink... the SMS come over phone, not data.

simple fix for the led is just flip the phone over, face down, and you won't see any light at all.

 

[anon(368121)]

so is there no way to silence everything but the ringer?

Coming from a Blackberry, I was a tiny bit dismayed to find that it's anarchy when it comes to alerts/notifications in Android-land. There's no centralized facility for managing them, so each application handles its own alerting. This means there's no way to wedge some code into an "Alert Manager" that filters and/or reroutes alerts. So if your app doesn't support alerting the way you want it, you're probably out of luck.

As stupid as I think that situation is, though, I would never go back to a Blackberry.

 

[French]

I'm using Bedside for night and it seems to have the effect of silencing all alerts and LED blinking while allowing calls to come through. I also had a Weather Bug alert when I woke up this morning however it was waiting for me rather than having woken me up.

 

[asylvia]

so is it the case that there is no way to use smart actions to have no volume on notifications except keep VIP phone numbers able to ring?

 

[anon(368121)]

None that I'm aware of, but I'm pretty new to Android.

 

[ronniesherard]

I like the general idea behind Smart Actions, but it feels incomplete to me. I have the same type of issues. So, I went back to Profile. Doesn't change settings automatically, but it's very easy to customize and it takes little effort to switch.

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[Super Turtleman]

Who's the developer of your bedside app French?

 

[French]

Who's the developer of your bedside app French?

Daniel Velazco. App is called Bedside (night clock).

 

[leesrt]

I'm noticing that if you have more than 3 actions it doesn't always apply them all. I had it set to trigger on time, motion, and charge to deactivate sync, ringer, apply vip list, and time out display at 1 min.
It never timed out display (maybe because settings are to leave on while charging) and it continued to sync because I got woken up by email.
I removed the motion trigger and the screen time out and now it works.
I would think if you tell it to time out display in smart actions it would overide the phone settings. It does that when you tell it to not ring.