7.4.2 and 7.5 introduced a new 'feature' - that is - when an alarm goes off and you click 'alarm off' in the corresponding window the popup vanishes, but the audio keeps on playing (https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14578)
I finding this pretty unintuitive (and consider this a bug). I expect to have the audio off, when I stop the alarm. This is the default behaviour of every other alarm clock in the world ! Now in the morning I have to cancel the alarm-menu and in addition need to press one more button to stop the audio. All this when I just woke up and can't find any button in a dark room (display of the radio is still dim, also backlit buttons are missing as we know). How I able to explain THIS to my wife ? One possible solution would be to have 3 option 'Snooze', 'Stop alarm', 'Continue Listening' (as of https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14620) - at least the variants are labeled correctly then. BUT: having three options would make me need to think and look at the display even more in the morning. Remember: when waking up the display is dimmed and actually you can't read the menu-options - so I don't consider it good solution either: Right now I got used to: Snooze: Press the big knob Alarm off: Tuuuuuuurrrrn the big knob und Press. This I can do without looking at the display and also when I'm not at full mind when just waking up. I wanted to know, how others see this ?? - do you know any other alarm clock, that doesn't stop the sound when you stop an alarm ? How is it solved there - is this the default mode or do they have extra buttons ? - do you favour stopping the audio or do you prefer having the audio go on, when you stop the alarm ? - could you handle three menu options in the morning ? - How do Boom and other devices handle this (we want to stay consistent, don't we ?) -- bluegaspode 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xSB-Boom. 1xSB-Radio Server (7.4.1) running on SheevaPlug (Ubuntu) with attached Western Digital MyBook Essential. Secondary 7.4 Server on Debianized Buffalo Linkstation LS-CHL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73506 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
