Timer ending is not obvious enough

[Soundtoxin]

From what I understand, when a timer runs out, it vibrates once and then resets to 00:00.

• It should vibrate repeatedly until dismissed so you don't ignore it and have your water boil over or similar (you may be timing something very urgent)
• There should be some sort of message that your timer expired so if you look at it a minute late you remember what happened

I also think it should not clear the timer value, but maybe that would work best after implementing my idea (#390 (comment)) to save timer presets. It would then show something like 05:00 after your 5 minute timer ended, and you would press the back button to get to a screen that lists all your timers, similar to the Pebble timer app.

[Raupinger]

I wanted to have continuous vibrations for the initial release but they depend on #342 getting merged. As soon as that's in this should be trivial to change

[km6thj]

#342 went in it seems -- any chance this will also be resolved?

[hatmajster]

What about: #557 ?

[Lacplesis]

I also want to throw in my support for this feature and offer a suggestion. Maybe in the settings, you could have customizeable vibration patterns for the apps, such as Short Vibration, Long Vibration, Tripple Vibration, or Continuous Vibration. I find it very easy to miss the single short vibration if I'm moving around at all and this would solve that problem.

[The-Linux-User]

Just wanted to showy support for this feature, it's so easy to miss the timer going off when it only vibrates once

Echoing the support for this, I was just looking to make an issue when I found this one. I can't use the timer on my Pinetime at all because it's really not reliable whether I'll feel my wrist buzz (or if I'll think it's a notification and ignore it because I'm cooking something and it Can Wait)

@Riksu9000 @JF002 Is there any work planned on this issue? It is now open for well over a year and even tho I've found a few PRs which claimed they would fix that issue, all of them seem like they were abandoned or lost in discussion. #557 is still umerged 6 months after the last commit, it seems because of a similar race condition as the one between notifications and alarms.

It looks like the single vibration breaks functionality for quite a few people, would it be possible to merge #557 with the currently existing problems and afterwards work on a better implementation?

[Riksu9000]

We tend to work on things that interest us and the timer has been working fine for me for short durations. This should be pretty easy to implement since you can reference the Alarm app heavily, so anyone's free to contribute this feature.