Managing individual app notifications using macrodroid + island
Managing individual app notifications using macrodroid + island
Hello guys. I have island installed and have my "work profile" installed, which contains among others my browser in the island tab. The situation is that I have several PWAs that I dont want to receive notifications for while I am at work as they are distracting and unnecessarily annoying, but I want to receive them normally while not at work.
I have been trying to figure out how to get it set up so that I can both trigger the actions at scheduled times, or manually through the quick tile I created from macrodroid (my work hours are not really stable/fixed).
However, when testing with a push notification testing site, regardless what I do I still get the notifications.
Here is my setup so far:
Macros: Enable Work Profile -------------------------- Triggers: Day/Time: 08:00 Mon, Fri Quick Tile On/Press Actions: Action 1: Target: Broadcast Send Intent: island.intent.action.FREEZE_APP Extra 1: package_name = com.brave.browser Action 2: Display Notification (with a message saying work mode enabled) Constraints: None Disable Work Profile -------------------------- Triggers: Quick Tile Off Actions: Action 1: Target: Broadcast Send Intent: island.intent.action.UNFREEZE_APP Extra 1: package_name = com.brave.browser Action 2: Display Notification (with a message saying work mode disabled) Constraints: Day of the Week: Mon Time of Day: 19:00 - 19:01 ------------------- OR -------------------------- Day of the Week: Fri Time of Day: 22:00 - 22:01
Some things to note:
I am using /e/os version 3.0.1-t-20250606498724-official-FP5 Android is version 13
What am I doing wrong here? Ideally I would like to have as few apps installed as possible to achieve a single task, but as I understand it macrodroid doesnt have the necessary permissions to affect other apps notifications (hence why island is necessary).
If there is another way which is easier to achieve what I am trying to do I'm all ears, however I do not want to use do not disturb for this purpose because obviously I need to be able to use my phone normally while at work except for those 2-3 apps I dont want to receive notifications for, but there are also situations where I want a full DND experience where I will get nothing coming through, not even alarms (e.g. meetings/classes, etc). Also for those unfamiliar with /e/os, it doesn't currently have the Focus Mode feature so that is also out of the picture.
Many thanks in advance!
Look into apps like buzzkill and filterbox. They are specifically made to manage and deal with notifications.