>The alarm was meant to be an alarm (that has to be acknowlegded) and >that one could use this feature as a scheduler (by setting an invalid >timeout value) in the past was more or less an accident/fortune. > It was no accident that there wasn't a confirmation popup dialog that got in the way of showing useful information on the screen. If anything, I think it was an accident that the new Radio "alarm clock" device doesn't feature a snooze button, and thus screen/control panel hand/eye coordination required to access snooze function, and thus confirmation has become mandatory rather than optional.
The issue is more than just "use alarm as a scheduler". It's equally about presentation when used as an alarm clock (simplistic usage scenario). The configuration screen currently still allows alarm timeout=0, which is a bit odd if it doesn't stop the popup window from appearing (I haven't tried recently; gave up using Radio alarms). After all, if the Radio honour the alarm timeout setting, after <n> minutes the window should disappear and music stop. If <n> = 0, does that mean it immediately times out, which is the same as disabling the alarm? It was useful functionality that has (hopefully temporarily) been dropped from new new players. Fortunately it only affects new devices; so we can still use a SB Classic player as a useful alarm clock. _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
