Anyway, with this app your Inari Blue logo reacts to incoming calls and notifications by a pattern you choose.
You can configure separate patterns for notifications, calls and even calls from favourite contacts (if you grant the app access to contacts) or any custom app you want!
It uses a background daemon that sits idle and does nothing while waiting so it does not consume battery.
Absolutely awesome. It blinks sharply on calls, even in silence mode enforced by Privacy Switch. This exactly what the Inari Blue TOH was calling for! You deserve more likes!
Both are intentional, tbh. If you want the original behaviour of just breathing, my app would prevent it, so it actually backs off when it detects you toggled it. I might make it configurable in the future.
The app was made with the phone being screen down in mind, it’s meant for cases where you want no sound, only the led.
Ok, well thought. i recently had a bug that the Ibari Blue was ON by default at boot, making your app unusable immediately at boot; but the bug seems gone now, maybe with the recent 5.2.0.18 update, so all great.
Assuming the phone is silent screen down, if the Notifier signals a phone call, and I turn the phone to see who it is, and I decide to not take the call and put it back face down, SFOS mutes it and one could think it would make sense to mute the blinking as well. In any case it is a small detail. The blinking is very discrete, so it does not matter much if such mute function would exist.
Thanks for the GUI; the icon is also very nice.
One thing I would love is if it could signal favourites, for example a faster blink (or breathing) if the call (or even message) came from a favourite. That would make for a great “do not disturb” mode where I still can know if important people requesting my attention.
EDIT (ADDITION): I understand the app is to be used in silent mode (this is how I will use it as well, immediately! So nice!). My argument was that “muting” (turning off) the light would make sense if I decide not to take the call (by flipping the phone back to face down), similarly to how SFOS mutes the sound in similar cases when sound is activated. but I understand this is much more involved to program, and does not add much in the case of an already very discrete light.
To be honest the absence of such app was a disappointment to me. I expected Jolla to provide something like that bundled, and as you demonstrated it was not a very difficult task for a competent professional.
(I still hope Jolla or someone else will make a multifunctional notifier TOH with different colors or blinking patterns for calls, email, messages.)
Whenever I try to install this app I get a failure.
I go to the openrepos.net page, and download the .rpm file (I tried version 1.00, 1.1.0 and now 1.2.1) then I click on install and every time I get an error message saying installation has failed.
In the settings menu the option “allow untrusted software” has been turned on before downloading the .rpm file.
There is no indiication to WHY it has failed. Can you help? Are there files that should be installed fiirst?
Exactly as nephros said, the app tries to install the daemon automatically, but if you don’t add my repo (e.g. using Storeman) it has no idea where to get that daemon from.
If you enable the repo, it knows the daemon is there and automatically installs it.
As for why the error doesn’t say anything beside that it couldn’t install the package, there’s nothing I can do, when you install a rpm manually, it’s handled by native installer which doesn’t show any useful error, that would have to be fixed by Jolla.
