I need an alarm app that lets me scan QR codes. I find that it helps me get out of bed and take my meds in a timely manner. I have QRalarm but it’s a onetime use alarm and I can’t schedule times for certain days which I find to be really important. I normally use alarmy but it requires the Google Play store and I’d prefer to not have that yk.

Anyone know a foss option?

    • OtterAEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      This would probably work great most of the time. One worry I had when exploring NFC tags was if the tag gets lost, or you are out of home and forget to skip the alarm

      With barcodes/QR you can generate one on the spot if you know what the original one was. Some people just have a thing for the word “barcode”

      Example

      I guess you could always uninstall the app or force shut down the phone

        • OtterAEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          It is, for legacy reasons

          (I quickly threw it together)

            • OtterAEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              Ah makes sense :)

              I find that it’s similar to security questions, where I might not remember what exactly to input when I need to regenerate it. “qrcode” vs. “QR-code” etc.

              A better solution to my problem might be to add the code as text, underneath the image when printing it out

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      10 months ago

      It’s specifically the QR and barcode reading thing that I need because it forced me to get out of bed, walk to my bathroom, and scan the bar code on my medication bottle. QRalarm would be fine for this except that I cannot schedule the alarms to ring and instead have to set them nightly which I wont remember to do

          • Dedh@lemmy.world
            11·
            10 months ago

            https://tasker.joaoapps.com/

            it’s an android app that lets you automate almost anything on your phone/android system. downsides are it’s a pay app, not foss, and fairly complicated to set up at first. upsides are it is almost unlimited with what you can automate. looks like there is a free trial. might be a lemmy-instance for it, (there’s a reddit sub) disclaimer; i haven’t used it for a while now on older android releases.