It really is hard to imagine why it should be so difficult to fix the alarm functionality (even if only in a temporary manner), using a local fallback sound at the Radio itself. Even if the connectivity problems with MySB aren't resolved quickly (one presumes this will take more development resources), there has got to be a simple way for the Radio to locally, and automatically, determine the MySB (or SqueezeCenter) connection has gone bad (perhaps a periodic in-band ping?). Once it's been determined the connection has gone bad then the alarm could/should obviously fall back to some local sound stored on the Radio itself (until manual intervention on the user's part to reconnect to MySB, to keep things simple). I don't know how much internal memory the Radio has, but it obviously has sounds already stored locally. Even the default Navigation sound effect could just be used at max volume with a loop in this case.
I know Logitech is supposedly focusing all development resources on the Touch for now, but assigning even just one engineer to develop a short term resolution for this non-functional alarm situation makes sense. Frankly, I'm at a loss to understand how the corporate mind perceives the return-on-investment as not meeting the required threshold. I've got a good amount of time off for the Christmas break and would look into a resolution myself (as I know others would too) if a cross development environment for the Radio firmware was available (which I'm sure it isn't since Logitech obviously doesn't want proprietary firmware revisions floating around). Then again, if they'd offer to provide a single QA resource to testing then a non-Logitech developer could route the temporary workaround/resolution back to the factory for quick testing before distribution. The Radio really is a great little piece of technology, but it's hard to fathom that Logitech doesn't see the need to spare one development R&D resource for long enough to craft at least a temporary reliable alarm solution... -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72393 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
