Auto-Reply Doesn't work when 2 same messages are received

[pixincreate]

Yes, Auto-Reply doesn't work when you receive more than 1 message at a time. And if the messages are same, then it doesn't reply either.

Steps to re-produce:

• Send a text(something like this - "blahh") twice on WhatsApp to the one device that you've Watomatic installed.
• You can now see that, only message will be sent not 2. When the frequency is un-restricted.

[adeekshith]

Hi @pixincreate Thanks for reporting this in detail.
As for the not replying for more than one messages issue, this is caused by this line:

watomatic/app/src/main/java/com/parishod/watomatic/NotificationService.java

Line 29 in c98470e

private final int DELAY_BETWEEN_REPLY_IN_MILLISEC = 20 * 1000;

Where you can see 20*1000 ms or 20 second relax time between replies. This is causing it. This was introduced to prevent infinite loop if both users contacting each other have Watomatic enabled.

May be 20 seconds is too much. Reducing it to 10 seconds might make it unnoticeable for general users.

I can fix this in a minute but would like to ask if you would like to gain some contribution points 😃.
This is what you should do: find line 29 in this file /app/src/main/java/com/parishod/watomatic/NotificationService.java , change 20 * 1000 to 10 * 1000 and raise a pull request. Easy peasy is'nt it?

Would you like to do that as your first contribution? Let us know

[pixincreate]

Just created a pull request for that:)

[adeekshith]

Great job! 😃
Tiny change is required which I commented in the PR.

#107 (comment)

[adeekshith]

Yayy! Congrats! 🎉 Your first contribution made it to the main repo.
Will move the discussion you posted to another issue and close this one.

[adeekshith]

You should be able to see your contibutions here: contributors.
Looking forward for future contributions! Feel free to raise more issues or PRs in the future and also feel free to ask for help 😊

Moved your discussion here: #111

[adeekshith]

Attributed your fix in release notes:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/watomatic/comments/ls12ts/watomatic_18_released_with_many_bug_fixes_and_ui/
• https://github.com/adeekshith/watomatic/releases/tag/v1.8

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