Ah. Very good point. I don't know of a way to do this. I think this is why many people wish that Bard had its own timer.
Neal -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rose Combs Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 3:58 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Cc: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Using the timer with Siri, was timer on BARD I would like a sound when I do other things with the timer and yet I don't wanted to make a sound obviously when it's used as a sleep timer is there a way to distinguish between the two? Sent from my iPhone Rose Combs > On Dec 5, 2013, at 10:24 AM, "Neal Ewers" <neal.ew...@ravenswood.org> wrote: > > More on the timer with Siri. > You can say either pause or stop timer and it will pause. In a way, > that is as good as stop because it will not run again until you give > it another command. You can say resume timer, and it will start where > you left off. You can also say reset timer, and it will reset to the last time you gave it. > While there is no way to set it to 0, that's OK, because even when the > timer sounds the alarm to end a timed session, if you say show timer, > it will be set to 1 minute. Of course, it is stopped at that point. > So, I find this to work very well. This is all with iOS 7. I am not > sure if it works this way on earlier operating systems. > > Neal > > Rose, I don't understand what you are saying. You said, "switching > from stop to a sound is not something Siri can do to my knowledge. > > Are you saying that you cannot stop the timer by using Siri? If so, > you are, in part correct. You can stop the timer by saying stop timer. > The timer will pause at the time left. You can say reset timer, and > the timer will reset itself to the last number of minutes you gave it. > But, I have found no way to stop the timer and reset it to 0 by using > Siri. However, If you stop it, it will not run again until you > re-start it, or give it a different number of minutes. > > Neal > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Rose Combs > Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 5:10 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: timer on BARD > > Yes, well, I use the timer for other things, cooking, baking, doing > laundry and much more, switching from stop to a sound is not something > Siri can do to my knowledge which is the reason I don't use it to stop > Bard, I use it often for various things during day. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Don Breda > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 4:03 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: timer on BARD > > Well not true really. > > As long as you set it for stop playng the first time you never need > to touch it again. > > All you have to do is say "set sleep timer for 30 minutes" to siri and > she will say ok 30 minutes and counting. > > It couldn't get any better then that. > > Don > > > > -- > Don Breda <don.br...@gmail.com> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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