Good discussion. My post intent was pretty simple - Wake me up at the time that I set the alarm to. Don't let a power failure, server failure, network failure, server setting, or anything else let me oversleep & be late for work...
What I observed was my alarm being set to 5:00 AM and going off at 6:00 AM. Sure had me fooled. The clock said 5:00, the alarm said 5:00, yet it didn't go off for another hour - when the time said 6:00 and the alarm said 5:00! There's something basically wrong with that situation.... I've made my living in the computer business for a long time, which is why I tried to state the problem as a user/customer, not an engineer. If I were engineering this feature, I'd keep both the time and the alarm setting local to the Squeezebox Radio (even though it's a computer and not a wind up alarm clock, I bet it can do that!). Extra credit if the Squeezebox is smart enough to periodically synchronize its time with a time server on the internet - a real time server, not the squeezebox server on my ill-maintained spare PC. Having the alarm time reside on the server is simply absurd. I can't see ever wanting to remotely connect to a server to adjust the time on my alarm clock. I usually wake up rather near where I go to sleep, and that is where I set the alarm time ;) They forgot the cheap 9V battery alarm backup in the hardware. Too late to fix that. I'll solve that with a cheap battery UPS that I can share with my bedroom Tivo. Despite my ranting on this alarm subject. I asm impressed with the Squeezebox radio. It's a real breakthrough and game changer in radio. This is the beginning of the end for traditional over-the-air radio. An easy-to-use kitchen or bedside appliance. I want a Squeezebox TV-box next! Logitech, I hope you're working on that. -- davenva ------------------------------------------------------------------------ davenva's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34191 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70526 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
