mkoura / countdown-idle

simple coundown timer with very few CPU wakeups

Moved to https://gitlab.com/mkourim/countdown-idle

I wanted simple cli countdown timer to use it for Pomodoro and as a tea timer. All timers I tried were too resource intensive - they were producing lot of CPU wakeups (on Linux you can check this using powertop).

This countdown timer is very light on resources. The slight disadvantage is that it prints updated remaining time only when asked (after pressing ENTER), but that's good enough for my needs.

Example

$ countdown.sh --help
countdown.sh [hour] [min] sec

$ countdown.sh 25 0 && espeak "Pomodoro finished"
00:25:00 (press ENTER to update)