Closed frkd-dev closed 1 year ago
In Actions 2.6.0, there is a Wait Milliseconds
action. Can you try using it and experiment with what the lowest possible wait is?
Installed the update. By experiment I narrowed down to 20ms with a new “wait ms” action. Ten ms also works but unreliable: ≈¼ of all switches are failing. Set 5 ms and automation fails just randomly.
I’ve stopped at 30 ms as it seems timings are floating to some extent so 20 ms also may have rare misses, although I didn't see them so far. This 30ms is far less I can spot by naked eye as it equals to 2 screen refreshes at 60Hz or 4 at 120 Hz.
Thanks for testing. I'll add a 30ms delay in the next update.
Are you going to make it configurable in action’s UI? I’m asking because I have doubts this delay is the same across devices of different generations.
No. I want to keep it simple. If it doesn't work for other people, they can use the Wait Milliseconds
action themselves.
Hello there,
I'm currently facing an issue with the "Is Low Power Mode On" action: when the action runs from Shortcuts' automation, it does not always detect a proper state. To get it to work correctly a "Wait" action is needed before it.
Without a such delay, the action returns a state that is preceding the switching. I believe this happens due to delays in the propagation of the state to apps. Currently, a delay using the "Wait" action is a solution but it's unnecessarily long and pretty notable when automation is running.
Personally, I see two options here:
1) introduce a new separate action to have sub-second delays for putting it before the "Is Low Power Mode On" action 2) add a delay option into the "Is Low Power Mode On" action itself, so the user can set a delay of 200 or 300 msec.
I would prefer to have an option as a part of the "Is Low Power Mode On" action as it's connected to how the iOS delivers state changes to apps. If this is a known and expected system behavior, the user then needs a hint about it and an option inside the action to avoid it without bringing an additional action.
Would be nice to hear alternative ideas or perhaps a better solution.
Thank you.
Actions 2.5.2 (42) - com.sindresorhus.Actions iOS 16.5.1 iPhone14,2