Although it does have the downside of failing during a power outage. Outages aren't frequent in my area, but they do happen on rare occasions -- for this reason I tend to use my cell phone for my alarm, or at least as a backup alarm.
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:11 PM, tcutting < [email protected]> wrote: > > I've been running the Radio as a "clock radio" for quite a while now. I > run a Squeezeboxserver 24/7, and my alarm sound is a local .mp3. Before > that, I used one of the "sound effects" which actually is served through > mysqueezebox.com, and the reliability of the alarm was poor. Since > changing to local (SBS hosted) alarm sounds, the reliability has been > 100%. A fair amount of effort has gone on in software and firmware to > improve the alarm reliability as well. In general, if you always use > Squeezeboxserver, your alarms will probably be very reliable... if you > depend on Mysqueezebox.com for alarms, you are asking for trouble. > > > -- > tcutting > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > tcutting's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17402 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81581 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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