A bedtime routine for your Android phone, in one sentence

How do I set up a bedtime routine on an Android phone?

One sentence turns on Do Not Disturb, dims the screen, lowers the media volume and sets the alarm volume, every night at the same time. To set it up, install Rulomi from Google Play, type the sentence below, check the routine it shows you, and enable it.

Rulomi's on-device parser understands this as written, so it works with the AI planner switched off.

What Rulomi builds

WHEN

Every day at 22:30

THEN

1. Turn on Do Not Disturb, priority interruptions only
2. Set the brightness to 10%
3. Set the media volume to 10%
4. Set the alarm volume to 80%

You see this on the review screen before you enable it, and nothing runs until you do.

Access it asks for

• Do Not Disturb access, which Android also requires for the ringer and the ring and notification volumes.
• Modify system settings, for brightness, screen timeout and auto-rotate.
• Precise timing is optional. Without it Android may run the routine a few minutes late.

Rulomi asks for access per routine, when a routine needs it, not all at once when you install.

Variations

Only on nights the phone is on its charger, so a night away is left alone.

Good to know

• Setting the brightness turns adaptive brightness off, so the screen stays dim in the morning. Add a brightness step to a morning routine to bring it back.
• This sets the alarm volume, not an alarm. Your alarms stay in your clock app.
• From Android 17, a volume change from a time routine that runs while Rulomi is closed can be refused. Activity says so when that happens.

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