How to Use a Check-In Timer
Open Safety & Alerts, choose the safety timer, set when STALKR should check on you and who should be notified, then arm it. Acknowledge or resolve it before escalation.
Steps
- Open Settings → Safety & Alerts.
- Choose a check-in or dead-man timer.
- Set time/interval and recipients.
- Arm the timer and acknowledge when prompted.
How this works
A check-in timer is a one-time prompt; a dead-man switch repeats. Both work the same way — you acknowledge before the deadline, and a missed acknowledgement escalates to the people you selected.
Escalation runs on deployed server scheduling and notification infrastructure, so arming a timer, resolving it, and escalating it all require service connectivity.
Recipients come from your emergency contacts and Crew, and selecting someone does not tell them they were selected. Timers are presented as a Pro capability in the subscription UI.
It is a coordination aid. A missed check-in notifies the people you chose; it does not dispatch emergency services.
What happens next
The armed timer runs until you acknowledge it, resolve it, or it escalates to the recipients you chose.
Related settings
- Settings → Safety & Alerts → timers
Common problems
- Timer creation and server escalation require connectivity.
- Notification delivery is not guaranteed emergency dispatch.
- Recipients only ever hear from a timer that actually escalates.
Questions this answers
- How does check on me work?
- What is the dead-man switch?
- Who is told if I miss a check-in?