Scheduling local repeating notifications

[ihaveaquestion]

Hello I think the bigger pain in HTML5 compared to native development are the notifications! Definitively working with notifications I think the best recomendation is still continue in native. I am stuck here many time and would apreciate any help if someone has been able to achieve it with the HTML5 Cordova avaiable tools.

I am trying to set a local notification which has to appear every 100 minutes. For this the best thing I found is this plugin: https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications

But it is unfinished and I think it is not working properly but currently I think there are nothing better. I try set notification with this code:

info1=time1.getHours()+":"+time1.getMinutes();
cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule({
id: 1,
title: "Notification!",
text: message,
firstAt: time1,
data: info1,
every: 100
});

The problem is that the every parameter is not working, the notification appears only the first time, all the other parameters are working fine. I asked in plugin page https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications/issues/509 ; in stackoverflow too but not answer.

If someone had experience with this plugin or can recommed another tool I would be really grateful.

[Elroy_A_Intel]

I recommend reviewing the required object structure for the cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule(<object>) function. For example,

cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule({
    id: 1,
    text: 'My first notification',
    sound: isAndroid ? 'file://sound.mp3' : 'file://beep.caf',
    every: 'day',
    firstAt: next_monday,
    data: { key:'value' }
})

Your provided code doesn't include the proper value for data.

Also, review the CHANGELOG and appropriate versions at https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

[Swati_S_Intel1]

The one you've used is the most cross-platform. Check this out : https://github.com/javamrright/cordova-plugin-local-notifications/, they've forked from the the one you've used and fixed some bugs. And if you want iOS only then this one might work: https://github.com/GotCakes/Phonegap-LocalNotification/

Swati

[ihaveaquestion]

Elroy thank you very much for your help! In last version it is possible to use directly a string but just in case i tried with this sample code:

    var now = new Date().getTime(),
    _60_seconds_from_now = new Date(now + 60*1000);
    cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule({
    id: 1,
    title: "Notification!",
    text: "message",
    firstAt: _60_seconds_from_now,
    every: 100
});

Unfortunately the behaviour is the same, I get  only the first notification in 1 minute, but I am not receiving any notification after 100 minutes. I think it is a problem with the every parameter in plugin or maybe there are some limitation in android because all other its working fine. Its strange because if I set the every to 5 it works about the first 5 or 6 times(it varies) and stops notifying later. I mean using this code:

    var now = new Date().getTime(),
    _60_seconds_from_now = new Date(now + 60*1000);
    cordova.plugins.notification.local.schedule({
    id: 1,
    title: "Notification!",
    text: "message",
    firstAt: _60_seconds_from_now,
    every: 5
});

The notification is recived in 1 minute and after that every 5 minutes but only 5 times.

Thank you for your sugestion Swati!, yes I think the only solution is to find another plugin but currently I think there are nothing better that this from Katzer. With this other one its very weird, instead of receive the first notification (after 1 minute) I receive an android popup saying that the app has ended, and nothing more after 100 minutes. I am using just the sample code with a repetition:

var now  = new Date().getTime(),
    _60_seconds_from_now = new Date(now + 60*1000);
    window.plugin.notification.local.add({
    id: 1,
    title: "Join raid!",
    message: "nombreraid",
    repeat: 100,
    date: _60_seconds_from_now

});