Sharing my take of a repeating reminder (i.e. Alarm Clock) that can be snoozed built using as much Node-RED as possible

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So I wanted something that goes off every day at 5:15pm to remind me to take my meds, but I wanted to be able to “Snooze” the alert for 15 minutes. I also wanted to avoid Yaml as much as possible so here’s what I came up with (as you read you’ll notice I didn’t avoid that much Yaml but I prefer to use Node-RED as much as I can, and because I’m using Node-RED there’s no interface inside my UI for HA, it just runs everyday):

Use a looptimer node to repeat a message every 15 minutes with a timeout of 90 minutes, if I execute the actionable notify feature inside the reminder message then a STOP message is sent to the looptimer thereby killing any future reminders (essentially I am executing a “DONE/ I took my meds, please stop pestering me” message). I used the Bigtimer node to fire an “on” message at 5.15pm everyday, a switch to make sure I don’t get an “off” message passed through when the Bigtimer turns off, then a looptimer node followed by a Function Node with all the important parts needed for sending the actionable notification to my iPhone. I’ll post some of the Yaml needed below the screenshot.

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Inside the Configuration.yaml

ios:
  push:
    categories:
      - name: MedRemind
        identifier: 'medremind'
        actions:
          - identifier: 'MEDICINE_REMINDER_OFF'
            title: ' Stop Reminder '
            activationMode: 'background'
            authenticationRequired: no
            destructive: no
            behavior: 'default'

Inside my manually created RF switches I have a switch that doesn’t turn anything on so I can use it to toggle off and on which will force a STOP message inside Node-RED, which is how I get the reminder to stop going after I’ve taken my meds.

switch:
  platform: rpi_rf
  gpio: 17
  switches:
    medicine_reminder:
      protocol: 1
      pulselength: 184
      code_on: 0000000
      code_off: 1144076

inside my automation_old.yaml I have an automation that toggles the switch.medicine_reminder

- alias: Actionable STOP Medicine Reminder
  trigger:
    platform: event
    event_type: ios.notification_action_fired
    event_data:
      actionName: MEDICINE_REMINDER_OFF
  action:
    service: switch.toggle
    entity_id: switch.medicine_reminder

Inside the Function Node:

msg.payload = 
{
  "data": {
    "message": "Medicine Before Dinner",
    "data": {
      "push": {
        "badge": 0,
        "category": "medremind",
		"sound": "sms_alert_3.wav"
      }
    }
  }
}
return msg;

lastly inside the Change node, it changes the message from the medicine_reminder switch (from either ‘off’ or ‘on’ because I’m toggling it in my automation):
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