Capacitor: LocalNotifications: add second option to on pattern

[ralscha]

The following code triggers a local notification, every day at 22:55

        schedule: {
          on: {
            hour: 22,
            minute: 55
          }
        }

The problem is this that when the user receives the notification at 22:55:00 and he immediately taps on it, he gets another notification, because the on pattern matches the time during 22:55:00 and 22:55:59. If the user is fast with tapping he receives multiple notifications during that minutes.

I think this behavior is not wrong, because the pattern matches the time. But I think we need a way to also specify the seconds. This would solve the problem and the notification only appears once a day.

        schedule: {
          on: {
            hour: 22,
            minute: 55
            second: 0
          }
        }

[jcesarmobile]

in which platform are you testing?

[ralscha]

Sorry, forgot to mention. It's on Android 9 (Tested in an emulator and on a device)
It's okay, notification appears only once, on iOS.

[ralscha]

I also did a test with day

schedule: {
  on: {
    day: 18
   }
 }

Assuming you run this on the 18th of a month, on Android you immediately get a notification and each time you tap on the message a new notification pops up.
On iOS you don't get a notification. I assume you get one when the day changes from 17 to 18.

[arnaud-zad]

I have the same issue on Android 9

[haschu]

We also have the exact same problem. Adding a second option should be the way to go - which shouldn't be too hard to implement I guess.

@ralscha Since your post is already a few months old, did you find a workaround for this?

[ralscha]

No I haven't. I was just exploring the capabilities at that time.

[mrowe009]

Any update on this? I am also experiencing this behavior in Android. I expected that adding the count prop and setting it to 1 would remedy this, but it did not help. I just kept getting the notification after swiping it away

{
  count: 1,
  schedule: {
    on: {
      day: 18
    }
  }
}

this still triggers the notification multiple times. Anybody know what the count is supposed to do?

[mrowe009]

any update on this?

[jonmbennett]

The Cordova project had a similar bug that was fixed in their latest beta: https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications/pull/1813

[dotrub]

@mrowe009 Count is for every; if you specify every: day and count: 2, it will repeat every 2 days.

I'm having the same issue. I tried passing in second anyway since the Android code looks like it doesn't care, but that did nothing. This makes on completely useless.

[rajashekarreddy2222]

no documentation on how to do please ...capacitor team replay on this