> 
> As an update, since I tried the different stream last night (station's
> MP3, *not* the radiotime version), the radio did correctly awaken me to
> the stream this morning.
> 
I've been doing some chasing a bug associated with RadioTime URLs.
Often the RadioTime URLs are long playlists of URLs of different formats
for the same station which refer to other playlist which in turn refer
to the station to be played - each level of playlist add time. The
RadioTime have to be generated as the request can vary the format - this
also takes time. 

While I'm sure the alarm code has some issues especially, I think using
RadioTime URLs  makes it more likely to fail as there at least 2-3
levels of processing and associated delays before trying the actual
station itself. Then there is the possibility that the first format is
not available and so there is further network processing.

For Alarm I think you should use the URLs that goes direct to the
station - this will minimise the possibility of network problems and
delays.

That said, I use a Boom every morning as an alarm with an Internet
radio stream using my own SBS server and it hasn't failed except after a
power cut.  None of my system shutdown and the DHCP license time is 1
day.


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