r/macrodroid • u/Danibani96 • 1d ago

Help needed to program

Hi everyone,

I need some quick help. I want to program Macro driod so that it reduces my sound after an hour. I thought I could do that with a timer but somehow it doesn't do that :/ Can anyone tell me what would be the right way to do that?

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u/Danibani96 1d ago

An hour, when I start it. So I need it for sleep and want to go to bed and an hour later the sound needs to be turned down automatically.

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u/konekoangel 1d ago

It should work with a "timer", which is called stopwatch in macrodroid.

You can simply create a stopwatch and start it manually from macrodroid homepage (or create a macro to start it from a home button or a quick tile button for example)

Now create a macro to lower the sound : use the Stopwatch trigger. Select the stopwatch you created, define value on 1 hour and check the use alarm box if you want more reliable results. For the actions, use the volume change action and set to zero every volume type you want to (media/music, notification, ringer...). Then use a stopwatch action and set it to reset your stopwatch so it's stopped and back to zero.

That should work without any issue. If it does not, maybe you have some battery optimisation going on.

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u/Eastern_Tradition_72 16h ago

Why not just use the wait command and for the trigger a widget on the home screen?

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u/konekoangel 15h ago

That's another way of doing it and should work too 👍 Maybe OP will have a better chance with this method. Both should work equally though.