Quick blog post to talk about how I setup Kalliope to remind me stuff, but with a snooze feature.
The default setup of the neurotimer let you ask Kalliope to remind you stuff after some time (minutes or hours).
I really like it because I have a poor short term memory, so when I have something to do in 30min, I use the kalliope neurotimer module to help me remember… But sometime, I want Kalliope to remind me again after 5 min because I didn’t have the time to do at the time Kalliope reminded me.
Let’s take a real life use case:
Let’s say I am in a game (starcraft2 fan here ^^) and someone is calling
me. When in a game, I can’t (don’t want to) pick up the phone, but I
want to remember to call back the person. For this I’m using the
neurotimer to do so, with a sentence like
"Remind me in XX minutes to YYY".
This is the default setup explained in the neurotimer README file here.
But that is not enough for me, because I may be still in game when being reminded by Kalliope, so I want to have the ability to tell kalliope to remind me again in X minutes, without re-asking the full order like before.
The workflow I want:
Me: "Kalliope… remind me in 10 minutes to call back dad"
Kalliope: "I'll remind you in 10 minutes to call back dad"
[… 10minutes later …]
Kalliope: "You asked me to remind you call back dad"
Kalliope: "Do you want me to remind you again?"
option1: (I want another reminder)
Me: "Yes"
Kalliope: "When?"
Me: "In 5 minutes"
[… 5 minutes later …]
Kalliope: "You asked me to remind you to call back dad"
*Option: Again, I'm in a sort of a loop here, so as long as I say "yes", it will remind me again until I say no (or anything other than yes).*
Option2:
Me: "No"
Kalliope: "Ok, I won't remind you again."
So how does it work? I’m using the Neurotimer module, with the Neurotransmitter and the Kalliope memory to do so.
It does bring a limitation though, as you can’t have multi reminder with “snooze” as the memory will only remember the last one.
My configuration to do so is the following:
Brain file:
{% raw %}
---
- name: "reminder-synapse"
signals:
- order: "remind me to {{ remember }} in {{ time }} minutes"
neurons:
- neurotimer:
minutes: "{{ time }}"
synapse: "reminder-todo"
forwarded_parameters:
remember: "{{ remember }}"
kalliope_memory:
reminder_2: "{{ remember }}"
- say:
message:
- "Ok sir, reminder setup"
- name: "reminder-todo"
signals:
- order: "reminder_todo_no_order"
neurons:
- say:
message:
- "Sir, you asked me to remind you to {{ remember }}"
- say:
message: "Do you want me to remind you again ?"
- neurotransmitter:
from_answer_link:
- synapse: "reminder2"
answers:
- "oui"
- synapse: "no-response"
answers:
- "non"
default: "no-response"
- name: "reminder2"
signals:
- order: "reminder2-no-order"
neurons:
- say:
message: "When do I have to remind you to {{ kalliope_memory['reminder_2'] }} ?"
- neurotransmitter:
from_answer_link:
- synapse: "reminder-via-memory"
answers:
- "in {{time}} minutes"
- synapse: "reminder-via-memory"
answers:
- "dans {{time}} minutes"
default: "no-response"
- name: "reminder-via-memory"
signals:
- order: "reminder-via-memory-no-order"
neurons:
- neurotimer:
minutes: "{{ time }}"
synapse: "reminder-todo"
forwarded_parameters:
remember: "{{ kalliope_memory['reminder_2'] }}"
- say:
message:
- "Ok, I'll remind you in {{time}} minutes to {{ kalliope_memory['reminder_2'] }}"
{% endraw %}
Nota: The “no-response” is a default synapse I created that simply answer “ok sir” or something like this :).
And voilà :)