Better explanation of heartbeat notifications

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Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy, through an Android app and on-device sensors

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Better explanation of heartbeat notifications #302

Closed harlo closed 5 years ago

harlo commented 6 years ago

Currently, users may only learn of deactivation or crash via heartbeat notifications. In testing, however, our group didn't quite understand the use case; I would recommend highlighting this feature and why it comes in handy in the wizard.

deviantollam commented 6 years ago

i will say that the first time i got an SMS of just the heart emoji i wasn't realizing it was the heartbeat. i know that sounds silly, but it still might benefit users to see a small message or explanatory text on the configuration screen that "a simple single-character emoji heart will be sent"

this will also help if someone is using a device or system for monitoring that, for whatever reason, doesn't display the emoji Unicode. they'll just wonder why their device is sending them [X] blank characters, heh

n8fr8 commented 5 years ago

Perhaps the first heartbeat of a session could include an explanation message "Heartbeat activate: You will receive a short notification ever X minutes while Haven is still running"

We can also include a setting that uses <3 instead of Unicode, or allows people to configure the character entirely

lukeswitz commented 5 years ago

User configurable message w/explanatory text to initial message, as @deviantollam and @n8fr8 suggested
Appended device battery percentage to the alert

Concatenating strings for translation purposes downstream. Feedback very much welcome, PR on the way. Thanks!