Originally Posted by slarti

Turns out setting an alarm from the command line is now extremely simple thanks to PMs executeAction method. Was that always there?

Here is a simple script that takes seconds as an argument. If you don't give it anything it defaults to 60 seconds. If you give it something that isn't a number it will fail with ValueError exception. Title, snooze and sound can, of course, be modified from within the script.

python and python-dbus need to be installed (apt-get install python python-dbus as root)

Argument is given simply with: python /path/to/script.py 120
This will set an alarm 120 seconds from now.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python

import dbus
import sys

bus = dbus.SessionBus()
pm_obj = bus.get_object('org.ajalkane.profilematic', '/org/ajalkane/profilematic')
pm_intf = dbus.Interface(pm_obj, 'org.ajalkane.profilematic')

actions_struct = ['', 0, -1, -1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0, '', '', dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('(usis)')), '', 0, 1, [dbus.Array([], signature=dbus.Signature('s'))], -1, 0, ['', -1, -1, ''], -1, 0]

if len(sys.argv) == 2:
        seconds = int(sys.argv[1])
else:
        seconds = 60

title = 'Timer'
snooze = 10
sound = ''
actions_struct[24] = [title, seconds, snooze, sound]

pm_intf.executeAction(actions_struct)
print 'Alarm set to go off in %s seconds from now.' %seconds

Other ProfileMatic actions can be executed by modifying certain parts of the actions_struct. I can post the relevant indices if anyone is interested.