Reminders An alert a few minutes before a bad hour begins — Rahu kaal, and Yamaganda and Gulika kaal if you keep those too — before the day's Nalla neram, on the mornings and evenings of the vratams you keep, and before the festivals of your tradition. Everything is worked out on this device from the same panchangam the rest of the app prints.
Notifications on this device
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This browser has no Notification API. The reminders below are still computed, and the .ics export still works: a calendar app will raise the same alarms.
An alert arrives on time while this page or the installed app is open. With the app fully closed a web browser cannot promise anything on its own: it wakes a site in the background only when it feels like it, and iOS does not wake it at all. The next section hands the list to the app's server, which sends each alert at its time; the calendar export at the bottom of this page is the other sure way, because a calendar app is allowed to wake the phone and a web page is not.
Get alerts even when the app is closed
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Push is only available in a browser.
The server at api.udaya.app is given the title, text and time of each reminder switched on
above for the next 60 days, and nothing else: no name, no birth details, no account is needed.
It sends each one to this device at its time. The list is refreshed whenever a switch or the place
changes and each time this page is opened, so open it now and then to keep the alerts running past
60 days. Turning it off removes the list from the server.
What to remind me about
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Every day, before Rahu kaal begins. The eighth of the daylight the weekday gives to Rahu, and the one window almost every household plans around.
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Every day, before Yamaganda begins. The second of the three bad eighths; switch it on if you keep it as well as Rahu kaal.
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Every day, before Gulika kaal begins. The mixed one of the three: kept for what should happen again, avoided for what should not.
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Every day, before the morning good window opens.
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Twice a lunar month. The default warns the evening before, when the meal is planned.
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Twice a lunar month, in the afternoon of the day itself; the hour is the stretch after sunset.
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Once a lunar month, in the evening: the fast is broken after the moon is seen.
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The full moon, on the morning of the day.
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The new moon, on the morning of the day. Tarpanam for the ancestors.
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The monthly Murugan vratam, on the morning of the day.
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The annual festivals of the chosen tradition. Pick which ones below.
Which festivals (all of 0 in 0)
No festival list for this tradition and place yet. Check the place below.
Tradition and place
Asia/Kolkata · UTC+5:30
Sunrise, sunset and every window are worked out for this place, and the festivals for this tradition. The vratam days are the almanac's own: the Ekadasi that runs at sunrise, the Trayodasi that runs at sunset, and so on.
The next fourteen reminders
In this device's own time. Computed now, from the place and the switches above.
Nothing falls in the next 16 days for these switches.
Put them in a calendar
A calendar app is allowed to wake a phone at a fixed time; a web page is not. Exporting the year is therefore the surest way to get these alerts with the app closed and no server involved.
Every event carries a VALARM, so the calendar raises it at the lead time chosen above. The daily windows — Rahu kaal, Yamaganda, Gulika kaal and Nalla neram — become timed events over the window itself; the vratams and festivals become all-day events with the alarm set at the hour the reminder would have fired. The times are written without a zone, which every calendar app reads as the wall clock it is opened in — right for a phone that stays where it is, and an hour or two out for one that travels. A year of Rahu kaal is 365 events, so switch off what you do not want before exporting.
On this page, open: exact. Installed and open, or in a background tab: usually exact, though a
phone that sleeps may deliver late, which is why the timers are set again every time the app comes
back to the front. Installed and closed, on Android Chrome: only as often as the browser grants a
periodic background sync, which is measured in hours and is never promised. Installed and closed,
on iOS: not at all. With alerts from the server turned on: within a minute or so, on Android, on a
computer, and on an iPhone once the app is on the Home Screen. In a calendar, from the export
above: exact. In the native wrapper, from docs/native.md: exact, because the phone's
own scheduler holds the alarm.