Sync Alarms Across Devices

[fennifith]

Idk how this would work. Firebase? Either way, having alarms, timers, etc. ring on multiple devices at once would be useful. I guess there could be sync options in the settings to choose what other devices should do (ex: this device has its own set of alarms but still syncs timers, or something).

[fennifith]

I'm wondering if it would be possible to implement this with WebRTC similar to what chr15m/bugout does (although maybe not in JavaScript/Node). This would require at least one instance of the app to stay running in the background in order to connect to another device (maybe I could have one act as a persistent "server" for the others, displaying a persistent notification while active to prevent it from being killed a la #37), but should be usable, and would prevent a need to depend on something like Firebase as a backend (which would be an AntiFeature in f-droid).

[kentone]

Maybe local settings backup and sync via external services? Nextcloud integration?
Maybe share the backup file and make it importable just tapping it? (Like sharing it on telegram)

That way you dont break fdroid antifeature as you give the user the ability of selecting the sharing or sync service

[fennifith]

This will probably digress into its own fork / extension if I choose to work on it. #115 sufficiently covers this functionality for now.

If Alarmio does eventually integrate with a server-side component, it will be both open source and self-hostable - similar to how ajayyy/AlarmioRemote allows users to choose a server/domain. That's a long way off, though - and I don't want to complicate the codebase by adding too much functionality to it. A simple settings/data export should be fine for now.

Closing as obsolete.