I have a smartwatch and use kdeconnect to forward desktop notifications to my phone. I do not want to receive these notifications before or after hours (computer stays on and we’re a 24/7 operation).
You can manipulate kdeconnect from the command line with kdeconnect-cli, but there is no mechanism for scheduling alerts on and off.
My first test used the ‘–pair’ and ‘–unpair’ commands found in kdeconnect-cli, but this deletes all of your in-app settings (i.e. what features are enabled). This is less than ideal.
This is the solution I come up with. It involves using crontab to kill the kdeconnect daemon (/usr/libexec/kdeconnectd), then restart the daemon, then run the ‘kdeconnect-cli –refresh’ command. There is a bit of a delay needed between starting the daemon and the refresh command.
30 7 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /usr/libexec/kdeconnectd
35 7 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /usr/bin/kdeconnect-cli --refresh
30 17 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /usr/bin/pkill kdeconnectd
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