custom NSCalendarUnit for UILocalNotification repeatInterval?

[TechnoEagle]

I am trying to make an instance of UILocalNotification have a repeatInterval of 5 minutes. Many people online have said to set the repeatInterval to 5*NSMinuteCalendarUnit. This doesn't work, and I am not surprised, since every NSCalendarUnit is a multiple of two, and NSHourCalendarUnit is half as big as NSMinuteCalendarUnit.

Does anyone know how to make the repeatInterval 5 minutes (or any other custom interval)??

[mwyld]

I'm having the same trouble. I need to do 2 weeks repeat interval. All I have to work with at the moment is a week or a month?

[nobre84]

You could always schedule 2 notifications, 5 minutes apart from each other. The API is there for the repeatInterval, but so limited

[Duncan C]

Originally Posted by TechnoEagle

I am trying to make an instance of UILocalNotification have a repeatInterval of 5 minutes. Many people online have said to set the repeatInterval to 5*NSMinuteCalendarUnit. This doesn't work, and I am not surprised, since every NSCalendarUnit is a multiple of two, and NSHourCalendarUnit is half as big as NSMinuteCalendarUnit.

Does anyone know how to make the repeatInterval 5 minutes (or any other custom interval)??

Your only choice is to use one of the calendar units like minute, hour, day, week, month, etc. Those constants are bit values where each bit represents a calendar unit. You can't use an expression like 5*NSMinuteCalendarUnit.

You can specify a fire date explicitly with the fireDate property, but that's a one shot notification that doesn't repeat.