Anyone know of a small timer application with an alarm?[solved]

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#!/bin/bash
# AlarmClock.bash
# ( Corrected hours and minutes - "%H:%M" )
# Alarm clock for PCLinuxOS
#
# Don't miss important times and events. Turn your computer 
# into the perfect wake up system. Set the alarm and get the 
# Pizza out of the oven in perfect time.
#
# Author: D.M-Wilhelm (Leiche)
# Email: meisssw01 at gmail.com
# Licence: GPL
# First build: May Wed 11 2011
# Last build: Jul Sun 10 2011
# fixed icon display in systray, move zenity,
# based now on yad.
#
Encoding=UTF-8
#
# i18n - Internationalization - Internationalisierung
#
export TEXTDOMAIN=alert_clock
export TEXTDOMAINDIR="/usr/share/locale"
#
# define some variables - Definierung einiger Variablen 
#
TITLE="Alarm Clock"
ICON="/usr/share/icons/Paper/48x48/apps/alarm-clock.png"

#
#question - Frage
#
function menu {
COUNTDOWN=$(yad --entry --text "Time now is $(date +"%H:%M")" --entry-label "Enter minutes until alarm..." --numeric --title="$TITLE" --window-icon=$ICON \
            --image=$ICON \
            --button=$"Change alarm sound:2" \
            --button=$"Test:3" \
            --button="gtk-ok:0" \
            --button="gtk-close:1" \
           )
ret=$?

[[ $ret -eq 1 ]] && exit 0
#
#change sound - Sound ändern
#
if [[ $ret -eq 2 ]]; then
    CHANGE=$(yad --title="$TITLE" --window-icon=$ICON \
        --file --width=600 --height=500 \
        --text=$"<b>Choose your own audio file as alert!</b>
________________________________________________")
        if [ -z "$CHANGE" ];then 
        exec alert_clock
        exit 0
        else
        mkdir $HOME/.config/alert-clock
        rm -rf $HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert sleep 1
        ln -s "$CHANGE" $HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert
        yad --title $"$TITLE" \
            --button="gtk-ok:0" \
            --width 300 \
            --window-icon=$ICON \
            --text=$"Your own sound is set!!"
        fi
menu        
fi
#
#Test sound - Klang testen
#
if [[ $ret -eq 3 ]]; then
    if [ -f $HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert ]; then
    SOUND="$HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert"
    else
    SOUND='/usr/share/alert_clock/alarm.ogg'
    fi
mpv "$SOUND" | yad --title $"$TITLE" \
                 --button="gtk-ok:0" \
                 --width 300 \
                 --window-icon=$ICON \
                 --text=$"Exit sound test!!"
killall mpv
menu                 
fi
}
menu
#
#progress - Prozess
#
if [ "$COUNTDOWN" = "" ];then
exit
else
echo you enter "$COUNTDOWN" minutes
TIMER=$(echo $(($COUNTDOWN*60)))
TASK1=$(date -s "+$TIMER seconds" 2>/dev/null | cut -d " " -f4)
exec 3> >(yad --notification --command=CMD --image=$ICON --listen)
echo tooltip: $"Alarm clock was set to $COUNTDOWN minutes and notifiers at $TASK1!" >&3
sleep $TIMER
exec 3>&-
#
#check wich sound - auf Audio prüfen
#
if [ -f $HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert ]; then
    SOUND="$HOME/.config/alert-clock/alert"
    else
    SOUND='/usr/share/alert_clock/alarm.ogg'
fi
#
#alert output - Alarm Ausgabe
#
(mpv "$SOUND") | yad --title $"$TITLE" \
                 --button="gtk-ok:0" \
                 --width 300 --image=$ICON \
                 --window-icon=$ICON \
                 --text=$"<b>Time is over!!</b>"
                 exit;
fi
exit

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Brian Masinick

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I did find something that seemed to fix it. Line 34 initially read:
COUNTDOWN=$(yad --entry --text "Time now is $(date +"%H:%m")" --entry-label "Enter minutes until alarm..." --numeric --title="$TITLE" --window-icon=$ICON \

Capitalizing the “m” seemed to fix it to give the current time as of the script’s launch:
COUNTDOWN=$(yad --entry --text "Time now is $(date +"%H:%M")" --entry-label "Enter minutes until alarm..." --numeric --title="$TITLE" --window-icon=$ICON \

Another kink in it is with the alarm sound set up. I did set it up to the file /usr/local/lib/ft10/ahooga-horn-vobis.ogg, since that existed on my system. But, if a user considers changing the alarm sound, but then changes her/his mind and cancels, the script will balk at that and kill itself while declaring:
./AlarmClock2.bash: line 53: exec: alert_clock: not found

Anyway, it does work as a very basic countdown timer with an alarm, which is good. The “clocks” function from the package ft10-transformation (referenced here), is complete, though it requires entering the countdown time in seconds, which is a slight nuisance. Anyway, I now have some workable options for making sure I don’t overcook my oatmeal in the morning.

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Yes, those sounds, images, and other items are quite likely to be “different” than what they are on our distribution because the original script was written about a decade ago by someone on a different forum using a different distribution. Look in the directories under /usr/share for something suitable to you.

/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo contains more sounds.
Perhaps /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/alarm-clock-elapsed.oga would be appropriate?

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I had missed this reply of yours when I was testing it myself and made the discovery of capitalizing the “M”. Thanks again.

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Did you also see my post with the different location for sounds?
/usr/share/sounds has many different sounds; I found one in particular, at least on my system, that has a more appropriate alarm –
/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/alarm-clock-elapsed.oga

There may be others, so look through various folders beneath /usr/share/sounds for one you can use.

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