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How can Time Out pause any media before a break?

· FAQ · Time Out

Time Out can perform actions before, during, or after a break. What if you want it to pause any media playing before a break? A customer contributed a script that can be used with Break Actions to do just that. It pauses any playing media when a break starts — Spotify, Plexamp, BBC Sounds, browser-based players, or anything else registered with macOS's Now Playing system. Apps that are already paused are unaffected. In addition to the script that you can use with Time Out’s Break Actions, there is a brew dependency that requires installation. See the Pause Media GitHub page for details. Note…

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How can I detect when the camera is in use for Time Out?

· FAQ · Time Out

Time Out includes the ability to detect when Zoom, Teams, or FaceTime is actively in a meeting, and postpone or skip breaks via the Rules feature. But if you have something else using the camera, is there a way to detect that? A customer contributed a script that can be used with Rules to do just that. It automatically skips or postpones Time Out breaks while your camera is active, so you are never interrupted mid-video call. More general than the built-in rules for specific apps. In addition to the script that you can use with Time Out’s Rules, there is an app dependency, which is bundled…

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How can I control Time Out from another app?

· FAQ · Time Out

Time Out supports URL schemes to control some functions: timeout://break/micro/start will start the Micro break. timeout://break/micro/postpone1 to postpone the Micro break by the first postpone amount. timeout://break/normal/postpone2 to postpone the Normal break by the second postpone amount. timeout://break/mybreak/skip to skip "My Break"; use lowercase and omit spaces and punctuation for the break name in the URL. timeout://break/micro/reset to reset the Micro break. timeout://break/micro/pause/1h will pause only the Micro break for one hour. timeout://break/micro/resume to resume only the…

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Time Out fixed image and blog themes

· FAQ · Time Out

I got a support request for Time Out, my popular break reminder tool, asking to display a fixed image during the break. Time Out uses HTML pages as break themes, so it is possible to have a fixed image as a theme — in fact the default theme, Icon, does just that, with the app icon. So one way to have a fixed image is to: Choose the Reveal Themes command at the end of the Theme pop-up menu to open the Themes folder in the Finder. Duplicate the Icon theme folder and give it a new name. Replace the icon.png file with your chosen image. Edit the index.html to adjust the name and size of the…

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Simon extras

· FAQ · Simon

Dejal Simon is a powerful and flexible website & server monitoring tool. One of the reasons it is so flexible is that in addition to the many built-in services, filters, notifiers & reports, you can extend it by using or writing custom scripts (or port sessions). Simon comes bundled with many examples of such scripts; check out the Services, Filters & Notifiers lists and look for the items with a "Script" subtitle. You can inspect and edit those to customize them to suit your needs, or use them as inspiration for your own. As an additional resource, the Simon site has an Extras page, which…

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Where can I find more sounds for Time Out or Simon?

· FAQ · Simon · Time Out

Time Out comes with a number of built-in sounds that you can play as part of the Break Actions, plus it lists all sounds you have installed on your Mac, which includes system default ones, and any you have added to the standard sound folders. It's worth noting that you can also have Time Out play any music from your Apple Music library, too. Find more sounds To add more sounds, you first need to find and download them from a website. There are many sites that offer sounds of varying length, quality, themes, etc. Some for free, some as paid offerings. Usually with previews so you can listen…

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Does Time Out have a lifetime purchase option?

· FAQ · Time Out

In ye olde days, software was sold once, for what would be considered nowadays to be a high price, and every year or so the developer would release a major paid upgrade, typically charging about half of the original price. I still do this for Simon, my pro tool to monitor websites and servers for changes or failures, since that model is still common for pro apps. Though it is also available on Setapp, as part of a subscription along with hundreds of other apps. But for Time Out, my popular break reminder app, I wanted to try something different. I introduced a "supporter" model, where people…

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