LocalNotifications: introduce `startTime` for `every` (intervals)

[haschu]

It would be nice if one could schedule an interval notification (e.g. every day) but with a custom startTime.

Consider the following example:

 notifications: [{
   // ....
   schedule: {
     every: 'day'
    }
   // ....
 }]

This schedules a notification that triggers every day from NOW on. So if one would schedule a notification at 11:00 am, it would trigger the next day at 11:00 am, and so on...

What I'm looking for is something like "remind every day on 08:00 am", so for example:

notifications: [{
  // ....
  schedule: {
    every: 'day',
    startDate: aSpecificStartDate
   }
  // ....
}]

This should be fairly easy to implement. Looking at the Android source, startTime needs to be configurable. (For the swift sources is's almost the same)

I would suggest to introduce a new property startTime for the schedule object. For me, this seems to be the most straightforward way, plus is stays backwards compatible.

Any thoughts on this? If you guys are okay with that solution I would give it a try and submit a pull request.

Or maybe am I missing something and there is a workaround for my problem?

[woelfners-miracles]

Hi, I got the same issue here. Daily reminders at a specific time would be awesome!

[ralscha]

Hi. You can already do that with on.

"remind every day on 08:00 am"

        schedule: {
          on: {
            hour: 8,
            minute: 0
          }
        }

"remind every day on 11:00 am"

        schedule: {
          on: {
            hour: 11,
            minute: 0
          }
        }

"remind every month on the 17th on 7:00 am"

        schedule: {
          on: {
            day: 17
            hour: 7,
            minute: 0
          }
        }

[haschu]

@ralscha Ah, thanks! Going to try that out :)

[jansgescheit]

I have a similar problem. The documentation is unfortunately insufficient. I would like to send notifications every Monday at 20:00, is that possible?

[ralscha]

@jannnnnn Don't see a way to do that with the current implementation. A startTime for every would solve that. Or if on would support a day of week property, like cron.

[jansgescheit]

@ralscha I went through the source code and come to the same conclusion. I have now switched back to the cordova plugin https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications

[askilondz]

Looking for the ability to schedule a notification on a specific day of the week every week like @jannnnnn mentioned. Any other thoughts on how to achieve this?

[slevy85]

I think this an important feature for notifications, this issue is also the same as #2752