feature req: graduated alarms for contacts

[nutpantz]

After 6 hours of no use during the day i would want to send an alarm to my neighbor, after 36 h i would want to send alarms to sister, however if the alarms are still going after 48 h i would want everyone have sent a message.

Graduated alarms wound be very helpful if no one has responded to the first ones.

Personally i think three levels based on user specs.
Check on me. Level 1
There is something wrong level 2
SOS there might be serious problems level 3
And level 4, I'm very likely dead, stop my cats from eating me.

We don't always want everyone to respond to every level of problems and we don't always want everyone to know every level of issue. But when things must be very bad, we want any one possible to respond.

[keepalivedev]

So in other words, contact-specific inactivity settings? This should be possible, the hardest part would be figuring out the UI... The only setting that wouldn't be contact-specific would be the rest period range right?

[nutpantz]

I think the rest period would be disabled after the alarm is triggered, so it should not need to change.
There would need to be "steps" for contacts.
Ie:
step 1 Bob gets sms after 6 hours.
Step 2 Bob and Mary get sms after 12 hours
Step 3 Bob, Mary and Joe get sms after 16 hours
Step 4 every contact you entered gets a sms after 24 hours.

The user sets how many hours or minutes for each step. rest period would be ignored after step one is triggered.

Now you mention it, custom time triggers for each contact might also be quite useful. But that might be a separate feature request.

[keepalivedev]

Would the message be the same for all contacts? I am terrible at UI design and the hardest part for me is going to be figuring out how to display the extra information into the current UI. If you have any suggestions for how it should look to edit these settings let me know.

[nutpantz]

I would leave the contact# info the same as it is now.
The messages for each contact works good now
I would add a section labeled "graduated" or maybe "progressive" alarms
Have a levels option 1-3 user pickable
Unending alarms option
With a "everybody at the end level+1" option to message everybody one level higher then the option chosen.
Then show the number of levels and let the user pick the contact at each level and a time to wait in minutes.

So something like

Graduated alarms? (Check box)
Levels? (user pick 1-3) unending alarms? (c box)
Repeat Message everybody 1 hour after last (c box)
choose contact# (grey out depending) time box
Level two choose. (On how many levels) time box
Level three choose (are requested) time box

[B0ycee]

This sounds like a good feature. I think UI could be very simple. Move "hours of inactivity before prompt" down to above "call phone number" add title above "Alert 1" and then have a "plus" button to keep adding more alerts down the page (i.e "Alert 2" with its own inactivity time and a number to call and/or SMS). If a call is in progress from earlier alert the later call probably can't be made and would need to be handled.