app to control notification volume at night

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Hi all.

I'm wanting my phone to silence itself over night, I don't care about e-mails, twitter, system alerts or most text messages. I'd like to be able to add certain numbers to an ignore list, so that I always get notifications for text / calls from them whilst the app is suppressing others. I used to use 'quiet hours' in the CM ROMs, but am running stock 4.2.1 now.

What's out there and decent for doing this?
 
Llama. Also has the ability to control all aspects of your phone based on cell tower group, time of day, day of week, you name it - llama can probably do it. Bonus - completely free.
 
Secondary bonus, awesome name.

I'll get it downloaded. Cheers.

edit; seems weird that it doesn't just the Android location subsystem, it can be called to give a coarse location fix so as not to use the GPS chip. Why is the app telling me about cell triangulation and experimental WiFi locating... Android handles all that all by itself!
 
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Androids positioning is not 100% reliable, Llama is basically giving you the ability for it to learn because googles lookups tend to be pretty poor.

Android relies on a few systems, some of which are network controlled (cell tower lookup), some by geo-ip, some by SSID & MAC broadcast (it's own - you might remember google getting in trouble for sniffing this), but these can be dynamic and relying on it might break your ruleset a bit. Androids location awareness system also relies heavily on running a service people might not want to activate as it tells google your position after every lookup.

I just use cell tower lookup (voda HQ has spidercloud running so my work profile runs to over 20 masts, this only covers a portion of our 7 office setup) and it does the job for me. A lot of my profiles run to time too and in combination with location I find it works perfectly. If you're after a simpler system you might want to try timeriffic, a solely time based system but it doesn't have the the ability to mark people as "always ring at volume" as you requested.
 
I tend to leave WiFi on all the time, and living in a city with many WiFi networks I find my location be accurate within around 20m without the use of the GPS chip.

From having written location aware services on Windows Mobile 6.x that use the same principle as Llama (ie "which cell am I in?") and found how restrictive that was when compared to writing stuff in Android (which can triangulate based on cell tower strength of adjacent cells, and make use of WiFi) it just struck me as odd that the Llama dev is trying to reinvent the wheel so to speak.

I fully intend to make use of Llama as I need the functions it has - but was just a bit perplexed (from a dev point of view) why it's opting out of using an proven location system.
 
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