Working hours are how Mucka knows when you're working. Set them once and Mucka will watch your location during those hours, fire "leave-soon" warnings before your next job and offer to draft a "running late" text if you're behind. Outside your working hours, Mucka is quiet.
Where to set them
If your owner has turned on the On Time Tracker skill for your team, open On Time Tracker and its settings: on a phone that's the cog at the top of the page (or On Time Tracker settings at the bottom, depending on your layout). In Mucka's new phone layout, tap Working hours. You'll see a row for each day of the week.
For each day:
- Toggle on if you work that day
- Set start and end (defaults to 08:00 to 17:00)
- Toggle off if you don't work that day (weekends, days off)
Tap Save hours and you're done. The warning time and Pause for today save as soon as you tap them.
What Mucka uses your hours for
During your working hours Mucka:
- Watches your location to calculate ETAs to upcoming jobs
- Fires a gentle pill warning when you should leave soon
- Fires a stronger warning when you should leave now
- Offers to draft a "running ~10 min late" text if you're behind
Outside your working hours none of the above happens. No tracking, no nudges, no pings. Mucka stops watching.
Day off in the middle of the week
If a one-off day off comes up (holiday, sick, school run), don't fiddle with your standard hours. Turn on Pause for today in the On Time Tracker settings instead. Your normal schedule resumes tomorrow. Changed your mind? Turn the pause off again.
Reading the On Time Tracker page
The line under the title says whether Mucka is tracking right now, and when your hours end ("Tracking until 5pm") or start again ("Not tracking now · back 8am Mon"). Below it is one card for your next job, with when to leave by, Directions and Open job, and then the rest of today's jobs. If you're running late, the card shows the text Mucka has drafted for the customer, ready to send or change. Your recent warnings are in the settings, under Recent warnings.
In Mucka's new phone layout, Working hours is a row in the settings that opens the days and times, with Save hours at the bottom. More on the page: Use the On Time Tracker.
Common gotchas
- Doesn't show in the sidebar. If the On Time Tracker menu item isn't in your sidebar, the skill isn't enabled for your team yet. Ask your owner to turn it on in Skills.
- Always-on driving. Setting working hours from 6am to 10pm covers a long shift, but it also means location tracking runs all day. Mucka uses battery-conscious tracking, but the tighter the hours the lower the battery impact.
- Two engineers, same job. Mucka tracks each engineer's own hours and ETAs separately. If you're a lead engineer with a supporting engineer, you'll each get your own warnings based on where you actually are.
- Permission errors. On Time Tracker needs location permission. If Mucka can't see your location, go to your phone settings and grant Mucka the "Always" permission so the tracker works in the background too.