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Why don’t my timers sync? If I start something on my watch or HomePod why can’t I check in on it on my phone? Why do I need a set of independent timers for ev
by MBCook 4y ago
Why don’t my timers sync?
If I start something on my watch or HomePod why can’t I check in on it on my phone?
Why do I need a set of independent timers for ever Apple device I own?
- robbiep 4y agoYou can check a HomePod timer on your phone - it’s in the home app under whatever pod it is, down the bottom
- activitypea 4y agoThis makes me even more annoyed than if it just wasn't possible
- usrn 4y agoSyncing clocks is surprisingly difficult. On top of that you have to get the message to all the devices that there even is a timer, this might be delivered after the timer expires. I don't think you could do this in a way where people could rely on it. You already have caldav which can sync your agenda, I think that's probably the closest you'll get. There's a sibling comment that mentions HomeKit timers. I'd bet those are living on some remote machine and you're only able to check them but they behave very differently from local timers.
- MBCook 4y agoAll the devices are already synced to an NTP server. I don’t need millisecond accuracy here.
- 9dev 4y agoWhere's the trouble in dispatching a message for all devices connected to a given Apple ID, those devices checking whether the timer is in the past (and silently discarding it in that case), and setting a local timer to the desired target time? As a sibling commenter said, this isn't about millisecond precision, but making sure the timer telling me to take the cake out of the oven I set on the tablet in the kitchen will ring on my phone.
- appletrotter 4y agoAll we need is a start timestamp and access to the current timestamp. If we can improve the accuracy of the 'current' timestamp by hosting it on a remote server, so be it. But I doubt that's necessary. How much do you think the clocks on computers drift between syncs? I would wager if I isolated my laptop and phone from any networks, they'd continue to show the same time for quite a while.
- philsnow 4y agoEspecially since alarms can sync between phone/watch (or at least you can snooze/cancel phone alarms from the watch, which shows that they're at least talking)
- E4YomzYIN5YEBKe 4y agoI can turn off a timer set on my phone using my watch but I can't turn off a timer set on my watch using my phone.