Vibrate every 20 minutes?

[Aubrie]

Hi Automate experts,

I used to use Macrodroid but discovered that Automate is much more powerful. Here's what I'd like to do:

When the phone is not plugged in:

• Play vibration pattern A at the hour mark (:00)
• Play vibration pattern B at the :20 minute mark
• Play vibration pattern C at the :40 minute mark

After searching the forums, I created this flow:

1. Flow beginning
2. Await time
   Proceed = Exact
   Time of day = time(dateFormat(Now, "H"), dateFormat(Now, "m") - (dateFormat(Now, "m") % 20) + 20)
3. Is power source plugged
   Proceed = Immediately
   • Y) loop back to #2
   • N) Vibrate with pattern A, then loop back to #2

Now, how do I make it with the three different vibration patterns?

Thank you!

[Henrik "The Developer" Lindqvist]

• Vibration: Pattern= { "0": 0x9, "1": 0x4, "2": 0xC }[dateFormat(Now, "m")//20]

Change the 0x9, 0x4 and 0xC to the values of the patterns you select, i.e. select one the click to fx button to see its value.

[Aubrie]

Thank you—I was hoping to get a reply from "The Developer" with the monkey picture. :)

Trying to follow your advice and test it every 1 minute instead of 20 minutes to speed up testing, I set up:

1. Flow beginning

1. Await time
   Proceed = Exact
   

1. Time of day = time(dateFormat(Now, "H"), dateFormat(Now, "m") - (dateFormat(Now, "m") % 1) + 1)

1. Is power source plugged
   Proceed = Immediately
   • Y) loop back to #2

1. • N) Vibrate
     Pattern = { "0": 0x9, "1": 0x4, "2": 0xC }[dateFormat(Now, "m")//1]

1. • 
     then loop back to #2

The result I get is the same buzz-BUZZ every minute. So two problems, (1) it doesn't seem to be cycling between patterns, and (2) that buzz-BUZZ doesn't even seem to match 0x9, 0x4, or 0xC.

Also, I should mention that I want to customize my pattern, e.g., [0, 500, 500, 1000].

I'll try switching it to 20 minutes but wanted to report back in case I'm doing anything obviously wrong.

[Aubrie]

(sorry for the terrible list formatting—tried to fix it but the formatting is still broken)