OpenIntents

I've seen this requested in the OI Countdown description page, but here it is in the forum:

Feature request: the ability to have an alarm repeat itself every period of time, for iterations.

Suggested list of values for : 30s, 1m, 2m, 5m, 10m, 30m. A slider might be useful.
Suggested list of values for : 1, 2, 5, 10, Infinite

Use cases would be:
1. Deliberately ignoring an alarm knowing it'll happen again shortly. For example, I've set an alarm to move my laundry from the washer to the dryer. This doesn't need to be done immediately. I'm also doing the dishes. In order to be sure I hear the alarm, I've set its timeout to 5 minutes. I want to finish washing the dishes before I switch the laundry. At the moment I either have to stop doing the dishes to acknowledge the alarm (and then possibly forget to switch the laundry out), or listen to the alarm for 5 minutes (arghl! :). In this case, I would have the alarm duration set to 30 seconds, with a repeat interval of 5 minutes, for an infinite number of repeats.
2. You're at home or in the office with other people, but have stepped out for a few minutes. You don't want to force the people who're there to listen to an alarm continuously until they get back, nor do you want them to acknowledge the notification (they might be gone when you get back or might forget to tell you). For example, in this case, I currently have to set the alarm to a very short time to avoid annoying people around me - 10 seconds max. There's no repeat, so if the alarm slips my mind and I'm away from my phone for 10 seconds (say it's recharging on my desk), I miss the point.

This is different from "Notification timeout", which results in a continuous alarm. The alarm also appears to keep the phone completely on (at least on an Xperia X10) while the alarm is playing; not a good thing for battery life in general, and definitely not if you've left your phone somewhere where you don't hear the alarm. (And/or if audible alarms are disabled because you're in a public place.)

I tried to implement this with existing functionality; specifically, for each alarm I set the "Action" to trigger another alarm I've set up for this purpose. This alarm has a 60-second countdown, and in addition to firing the audible notification it also re-starts itself. So every 30 seconds another alarm should be fired. The notification time is set to 10 seconds. Unfortunately, on my phone at least (Xperia X10), the audible/haptic portions of the alarm don't fire for either the original alarm or the repeating one (I can't remember which off-hand). Might this also sort of results in notification spam? Doesn't seem so but I'm not sure it's working properly in general.

Thanks,

Dave