How to catch Alarm setting or dismissing?

[Nonhocapito]

I am trying to trigger a macro when the user sets an alarm, or dismisses it.

I tried with the "Intent received" trigger, using

android.intent.action.SET_ALARM

but it had no effect.

Is there any other way?

 

[Dimlos]

I think it is possible with logcat trigger, depending on the OS version.

 

[Endercraft]

I think it is possible with logcat trigger, depending on the OS version.

Indeed it probably is, but unlike @Jacob L I have lots of trouble with Logcat including impossible delays that I don't even know the duration of. It may depend on the device, but for me it did not work at all on the old and the new has these delays.

 

[Dimlos]

The Clock Task plugin can also trigger alarm changes.
I tested it and it did not work perfectly so I ruled it out.

 

[Dimlos]

I am not recommending logcat triggers without testing, for the Google app I have already created a macro and can upload it.
There may be differences in the behavior of the logcat trigger depending on the device, but it works fine on the device I have.

 

[Jacob L]

https://www.macrodroidlink.com/macrostore?id=7384

 

[Nonhocapito]

https://www.macrodroidlink.com/macrostore?id=7384

This doesn't seem to do anything with the stock clock on Android 10 on my device.

I tried investigating logcat from termux as I added, modified, enabled, disabled or deleted alarms, using

logcat | grep alarm

The intent seems to be called

android.app.action.NEXT_ALARM_CLOCK_CHANGED

and the app in question seems to be

com.android.deskclock

I found messages such as

AlarmClock: Deleting all instances of alarm: 6

Setting upcoming AlarmClockInfo for alarm: 1

I'll try to update the macro using this and report back

 

[Nonhocapito]

I seem to be able to catch some events like this. How to tell MacroDroid what buffers to use though? I cannot find this in the logcat output on Termux.

 

[Dimlos]

I believe this macro will work with the stock Google app.

 

[Nonhocapito]

My question is, why the intent trigger will not work? Would be better than having MD monitoring logcat.

 

[Dimlos]

Normally, alarms are set using AlarmManager, and setting alarms using intent is rare and 99.9% impossible with intent triggers.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/AlarmManager.html