I can't get vibrationPattern to work on my Galaxy Watch7. I've tried sending a notification to phone (Pixel 7) and also directly to my watch. I just get the normal vibration pattern no matter what I try. Has anyone else succeeded doing this with the Watch7?
#VibrationPattern on Galaxy Watch7?
leaden hazel
eager cobalt
Make sure to set a new channel name every time you change the pattern
leaden hazel
I did. Didn't change anything on the watch.
eager cobalt
hmm tested this on my pixel watch 3 with a custom channel and i felt the 2 long vibrations and the short ones at the endvibrationPattern: "100, 1000, 100, 1000, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100"
lol and just got google chat notification which was definitely different than the above
leaden hazel
Directly sent to watch and not phone?
leaden hazel
When I send directly to phone and have watch on wrist: Phone doesn't vibrate, watch vibrates normal pattern.
When I send directly to phone and have watch NOT on wrist: Phone vibrates the custom pattern, watch obivously does not vibrate.
When I send directly to watch, phone does not vibrate but watch only vibrates the default setting.
eager cobalt
some of that is controlled by the samsung companion app i think
also samsung has extra vibration settings which may take precedence or be the only thing considered here
woudlnt be the first time they deliberately changed notification stuff
like the alarm stream
leaden hazel
What happens when you send notification to phone with custom vibration pattern? Does the pixel watch vibrate custom pattern?
eager cobalt
normal pattern
leaden hazel
So there's nothing to do about it basically?
This app adds a custom vibration after the normal one (and it works) but unfortunately it doesn't support notification channels which makes it useless for HA. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.freepoc.wearnotificationhelper
eager cobalt
So there's nothing to do about it basically?
yea it seems samsung is ignoring the channels vibration property. FWIW channels on wear OS dont work well anyways. you cant change anything other than if its on or not
leaden hazel
But could HA companion app in theory do the same as that app above? Add a custom vibration after the normal one? I'd be content with that. The main point here is to have a few emergency vibration patterns that are so long that they can't be missed .
eager cobalt
have you tried testig with different channel importance to see if that corresponds to something on your watch?
another alternative app to consider https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lavaray.feelthewear2&hl=en_US
we may be able to add additional vibration but that feels like a workaround consdering it works for some devices
leaden hazel
Tried channel importance now. Low and Min had no vibration and no popup wheras the others had the popup and default vibration.
leaden hazel
When I read the docs of Feel The Wear 2 and also Custom Wear Notifications I just found (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andyxsoft.customwearnotifications) both suggest to disable original vibration in settings of the apps.
I'm just thinking if you did add additional vibration, I suppose we could just go to HA notification settings and disable the vibration on channel X and then the custom vibration would still work? And then it wouldn't be additional vibration for that channel, just the custom one?
I'm also a bit sceptical to Feel The Wear 2 and Custom Wear Notifications in general. The first one has a bad track record as the first version of it was sold and then this new second version appeared as a new listing. Custom Wear Notifications has only about 100 installations. Sounds risky for an app that has access to all notifications.
eager cobalt
to be honest m not sure that should be added, the app adheres to the notification standard strictly
3rd party apps are teh best workaround until samsung updates to match the expected behavior
leaden hazel
I see. No 3rd party app seems to support channels though. I've emailed the devs and hoping for the best. "until samsung updates to match expected behavior" is way too hopeful when it comes to Samsung 😆
leaden hazel
Reply from third party dev: "The app does not take into account the notification channels configured for each app. Some information related to the channels are private to the apps that own the channels, so we couldn't rely on them." So they don't have access to HA channels?
eager cobalt
hmm seems like that is true but ths link suggests there may be a way https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NotificationManager#getNotificationChannels()