Alarm Notfications?

[hl2guide]

I'm trying to use the alarm notification, but for me it just defaults to 9 minutes and does not use ExpirationTime.

e.g.

$expirationTime = (Get-Date).AddMinutes(20)
New-BurntToastNotification -Text 'example alarm' -Sound 'Alarm2' -SnoozeAndDismiss -ExpirationTime $expirationTime

Am I missing something, are there official docs or a wiki?

[Windos]

Hey @hl2guide, sorry I missed this discussion come through!

I do need to do a better job on the docs here, it's way up on my to do list... when I manage to carve out some free time again 😅

The expiration time there is "The time after which the notification is no longer relevant and should be removed from the Action Center."

Think of it like you're sending a reminder that there will be an event happening in the staff lunchroom at 1 PM. You could set the expiration time to 1:15 so that Windows will automatically remove it as having it persist could cause confusion (like seeing it the following day and thinking the event was happening then).

The nine-minute default is... annoying. The docs indicate it should be 10, but Windows has been deciding to make that 9 for a few years now and I haven't found out why.

For more info on customizing that, check out: https://toastit.dev/2019/11/21/crouton-13-hitting-snooze/