On 6/6/2021 1:09 AM, sms wrote:

> could do this. You can set the time of a "Speech" at green for 30
> seconds and yellow for 4 minutes. You can have it play a sound at 30
> seconds and again at 4 minutes.

I installed com.hg.SpeechTimer and turned off the "Confirmed exit."

It defaults to "Stopwatch".
I switched it to "Speech" & I changed the settings for "Speech" to
Green = 0:30, yellow = 3:30, red = 4:00 (I turned off blue).

It vibrates & plays a sound at each interval but does not stop counting.
It takes three presses to start it and multiple pressed to make it go away.
The three start presses are because you have to start it but it defaults to
the wrong settings. It should just go away when it's done.

It's a good app for what it is but it takes too many presses to do it.

On 6/6/2021 2:26 PM, sms wrote:
> It would do exactly what you want. But you'd have to re-enter the times
> each time you open the app.

Regarding the two com.hg.SpeechTimer & com.hg.SpeechTimer speech timers.

In both the timer apps you showed me I experienced the same problem that it
would wipe out all my hard work each time I started the app.

I finally figured out that you can't do what's intuitive, which is to change
the time displayed when you are ready to hit the START button.

You can change them and they will work that one time but they disappear when
you restart the app.

In both timer applications to make the changes stick you have to change them
in the settings which use a different method of setting the interval times.

Neither has a save button but both do save changes when you do it that way.
Both suffer from too many taps to start & too many taps to make it go away.

Otherwise they work well.

On 06/06/2021 16.58, John McGaw wrote:
> It might be time to take up hardware "making". Such a timer would be a
> cinch to make using one of the available tiny system boards such as
> Arduino and with one of those you could implement control by a wave of
> the hand, not even a tap required.

Curious to call that "hardware" :-D

I could do with with discrete logic chips.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:17:24 +0100, Davidm wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 21:08:44 -0400, knuttle
> <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>A French Press coffee timer needs 1/2 minute and then 3-1/2 minutes.
>>What timer do you know of that can do that as easily as one tap?
>>
>>Notice it's not 4 minutes but 1/2 minute and then 3-1/2 more minutes.
>>Any coffee timers you know of out there on Google Play that do that?
> There's an app on the PlayStore called "Tabata Timer: Interval Timer"
> that should probably do what you want, but when I looked at it seemed
> pretty complex to program (but I was looking for an 8 period time).

I missed the OP, so not sure what the problem is. I did a quick search
of the play store for
french press timer
and got a bunch of relevant apps. I took a quick look at the descriptions
of the first 3 and they all did as desired.

On 6/9/2021 2:08 PM, Joe Beanfish wrote:
> french press timer

Most of the apps that search found were blocked by Google Play Protect.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=french%20press%20timer&c=apps

But this nice app it found was already preset for 30 seconds & 4 minutes.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joykraft.frenchpresstimer

At 30 seconds it says "Mix it" and at 4 minutes it says "Press it."

This one detects the coffee grinding sound but it kept crashing in use.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.devdot.apps.baristatimer

These were blocked by Google Play Protect (does your GPP block them also?).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dpzwick.CoffeeTimer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scottwehby.coffeetimer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.omelan.cofi

Even the one timer that worked that didn't have ads took too many steps.
But other than that it's a good timer dedicated to the French Press process.

Thanks.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:05:07 -0400, knuttle wrote:

> On 6/9/2021 2:08 PM, Joe Beanfish wrote:
>> french press timer
>
> Most of the apps that search found were blocked by Google Play Protect.
> https://play.google.com/store/search?q=french%20press%20timer&c=apps
>
> But this nice app it found was already preset for 30 seconds & 4 minutes.
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joykraft.frenchpresstimer
>
> At 30 seconds it says "Mix it" and at 4 minutes it says "Press it."
>
> This one detects the coffee grinding sound but it kept crashing in use.
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.devdot.apps.baristatimer
>
> These were blocked by Google Play Protect (does your GPP block them also?).
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dpzwick.CoffeeTimer
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scottwehby.coffeetimer
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.omelan.cofi
>
> Even the one timer that worked that didn't have ads took too many steps.
> But other than that it's a good timer dedicated to the French Press process.
>
> Thanks.

I didn't try to install any of them.

OT: When does GPP kick in? Since it's an actual Google thing, I'd expect
the same information on the server side to prevent stuff from even being
in the play store and showing up in search results.

Re the sound detection, I'd be highly disinclined to give a timer access
to the microphone.

On 6/7/2021 5:33 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 06/06/2021 16.58, John McGaw wrote:
>> It might be time to take up hardware "making". Such a timer would be a
>> cinch to make using one of the available tiny system boards such as
>> Arduino and with one of those you could implement control by a wave of
>> the hand, not even a tap required.
>
> Curious to call that "hardware" :-D
>
> I could do with with discrete logic chips.
>

Sure, and back in the mid-60s when I was getting my first serious
technical education we did such things as flip-flops and gates with
transistors and diodes so I could probably still do it without even
resorting to logic chips. Of course I'm a lazy sod so I do things the
easiest way I can think of. Or I find a way to avoid the task completely
which is even better. ;-)

--
Bodger's Dictum: Artifical intelligence
can never overcome natural stupidity.

On 11/06/2021 02.05, knuttle wrote:
> On 6/9/2021 2:08 PM, Joe Beanfish wrote:
>> french press timer
>
> Most of the apps that search found were blocked by Google Play Protect.
> https://play.google.com/store/search?q=french%20press%20timer&c=apps

Did you try the one I told you six days ago?

> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=benji.app.frenchpresstimer&hl=en_US&gl=US>
>
> This one does have 30" and 4' counts. Seems to be just the thing you asked.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

On 6/11/2021 10:19 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> Did you try the one I told you six days ago?

I tried every single search and every single app that was suggested that
came up in a Google Play search for my phone and I installed all which
didn't have ads, didn't crash, and didn't flag a GPP warning.

I didn't have the kind of trouble I had with that app for any others.

Even when I search on the full name in Google Play from the phone the app
you suggested doesn't show up when I search for it from my phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=benji.app.frenchpresstimer

It says it only has 100+ installs so maybe that's why it won't show up?
Or maybe because it doesn't have a rating is why it won't show up?

I've got a few timers working which do show up so I didn't spend more time
trying to get it to just download onto my phone for reasons unknown to me.

On 6/11/2021 2:33 PM, Joe Beanfish wrote:
> I didn't try to install any of them.

Your search worked better than my search as it found apps I didn't.
I did try to install every one that the search found that didn't have ads.
> OT: When does GPP kick in? Since it's an actual Google thing, I'd expect
> the same information on the server side to prevent stuff from even being
> in the play store and showing up in search results.

It says it downloads it and then asks me to hit the "Install" button for
apps that don't trigger the Google Play Protect warning.

For those which trigger the warning the "Install" button comes up with the
warning. It will allow me to install it but I never pressed the button.

If Google Play is going to trigger a warning, I would want to know that
BEFORE I bother to hit the button to get the app while I'm still on GP.

I can see getting a warning for a private VPN or something like that but
this is just a coffee timer. Why would three coffee timers flag a warning?

>
> Re the sound detection, I'd be highly disinclined to give a timer access
> to the microphone.

Agreed. My system is fully updated. Maybe I'm lucky it crashed.

On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:01:10 -0400, knuttle wrote:

> On 6/11/2021 2:33 PM, Joe Beanfish wrote:
>> I didn't try to install any of them.
>
> Your search worked better than my search as it found apps I didn't.
> I did try to install every one that the search found that didn't have ads.
>

Maybe you have an old phone or something that newer apps won't work on
so they're not displayed?