Do you have ideas how to use the Smart Timers besides the perfect soft egg? Lets collect a few ideas what we could eventually prompt the timer. I think there is not many situations in life where you need to save so much time that u cannot just ask the AI how long something needs to cook or whatever and then with this answer just set a good old stupid countdown timer. Let me hear your usecases.
Maybe something to do with the pomodoro study method? Ill try that prompt
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Smart timers are good for me in the following situations:
- Focus time / break reminders when programming
- Making the perfect cup of tea every time
- Boiling eggs for a runny yolk
- Exercising - at least two, one to time the session, one to re-use repeatedly for each exercise
- “Time Timer” to help awareness of upcoming tasks (ADHD people will know)
- Stopwatch-type-feature Timer, to time how long things take.
- 3D resin print curing timer, so I can leave the room/building while I wait
- UV exposure timer for PCB solder resist exposure and curing (so I can leave while it happens)
- EXPROM UV eraser timer (so I can leave while it happens)
- RETROBRITE UV exposure timer (so I can leave while it happens)
- Study timer for when researching / learning
and so on.
I can achieve all of this with a combination Amazon Echo devices and Alexa, and my smartphone and timer apps.
Drawbacks: Echo devices are stationary and therefore Alexa is not always where I am.
Smartphone apps (including the Alexa app) are mostly awful to use and involve much fiddling to set and get on with.
Smartphones are terrible devices to have with you when needing to focus, study or exercise without distraction or disruption.
The Rabbit r1 just seems a perfect format. On-body, PTT. No interruptions. Everywhere.
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Hmm, looking for timers where AI would be helpful setting the duration of the timer.
- Set a timer for a power nap (I always forget how long that should be ideally)
- Set a timer that ends 10 minutes before the lunar eclipse tonight
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Here’s one I just used. I have an old EV that won’t let me limit the battery to 80% charge (recommended for Li batteries for extending battery life). So I need to manually stop the charge at approx 80%.
R1 prompt:
“My EV is currently charged at 55%. The remaining estimated charge time to go from 55% to 100% is 4 hours and 32 minutes. Set a timer to go off when the battery is charged at 80%.”
Works fine!
Edit: actually it was off by 30 minutes. It set a timer for 3:07 hours where it should have been 2:30 hours. All consecutive requests put the estimate to 37 minutes (which would be accurate with a charge time of 4:32 min for the EV to go from 0-100%).
When asking rabbit directly (not setting a timer) it also puts the estimate on 37 minutes. Perplexity and ChatGPT (non-pro versions) return the correct estimate.
Edit2: beta Rabbit does provide the correct estimate.
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I never used a timer in my life(79). I don’t see any utility for me but yes for others. Alarms are much better for me and even better the reminders when arrive some day
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@PaulBacon you do know you didn’t get it right in 1 try because of your luck. 2 days ago there was an update that added timers.
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I tried “Start a timer for pomodoro”
And it set a 25 minutes timer, nice one!
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Could we have the alarm function for vision mode ? Today I took a photo of some medication packaging and asked the device to remind me I need to purchase more in 15 days time. It read the packaging and interpreted the medication OK plus recorded a note in the Rabbit Hole for the correct date in 15 days time to purchase more of these. It would be handy if we could do the same with an alarm in vision mode.
I’ve used it for this and it’s nice! Especially because the pomodoro timer that I had been using was on my phone, so using rabbit for the timer gives me one less reason to take my phone out of my pocket.