Stop timer in the Clock app on Mac

[layo]

I regularly set timer in the Clock app on Mac. When the timer finishes, the alarm rings. Is there a way to stop the timer alarm as part of a Keyboard Maestro macro? I thought the action to quit Clock app would stop it, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

[Zabobon]

@layo

Is there a way to stop the timer alarm as part of a Keyboard Maestro macro?

Here is one way. MacOS Sequoia 15.2 Keyboard Maestro 11.0.3

You need to put it in a Global Group and choose a hotkey for it.

Cancel Clock Timer.kmmacros (4.5 KB)

Click to Show Image of Macro

[layo]

Thanks, but when the timer goes off, the cancel button is greyed out.

[Zabobon]

@layo

Thanks, but when the timer goes off, the cancel button is greyed out.

Sorry, I had missunderstood your question. I thought you wanted to stop a timer before it chimed. But you want to stop the chime sounding once the timer has completed.

I haven't ever used the Clock app on the Mac to set a timer. So, I was very surprised that there is no way to do this from the App other then clicking on the notification that appears in the top right of the screen once the timer is chiming. There is no button on the timer itself to stop the sound continuing. A very strange design!

So, here is a Macro that works for me to click on that notification. It seems to work and stop the chime sounding. You might need to adjust the numbers in the boxes to make it work on your particular screen. Again, you need to give this Macro a hotkey.

There might be a way to do this via scripting, which would be more elegant. Maybe @Nige_S or @Airy or @ComplexPoint or @tiffle or @griffman or @_jims or @noisneil could chime in? Sorry, I couldn't resist the pun, and we are close to Christmas and Cracker jokes...

Stop Clock Timer Chime.kmmacros (4.3 KB)

[griffman]

I don't think you can easily "see" notification windows, so I'd probably use your solution as well. Alternatively, skip the Clock app entirely and just use Keyboard Maestro for the whole thing?

This has actually come up at least a few times here in the past...

Check if the Clock app's timer is running

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Pause Indicator/Notification

Is there an action that will indicate the time remaining on a pause to the user? i.e. I'm pausing for x seconds .. pause ending in 5...4...3...2..1.. type of thing?

Countdown Using Keyboard Maestro’s Progress Bar

Howdy folks, There are several countdown macros on the forum already, but I didn’t see any that make use of Keyboard Maestro’s progress bar action (though I might have just missed them if there are). This one uses that action to display the countdown, updating both the text and colored bar in real-time. More details, screenshots and screen recordings are below. As usual, feel free to share any comments or suggestions, or to let me know if it doesn’t work for you. NOTE: Version 2.0.0 is a grea…

Maybe there are some ideas in those threads you could use.

-rob.