Phil Leigh;522948 Wrote: > This was the big mistake IMO. The Radio has a computer inside. All alarm > functionality should have been in firmware with the basic ability to set > alarms, snooze and beep all managed locally. Then it would have been > isolated from wi-fi/server/internet issues and could always fallback > gracefully to local capabilities. > I think the problem is that they wanted to use the same alarm logic for all Squeezebox devices, after all, the Boom should have the same alarm functionality as the Radio. A local alarm is fine on the Radio, Touch and Controller but it wouldn't work on Transporter, Boom and Classic due to the restricted CPU, storage and memory on those devices. Due to this it's not that strange that they selected the client/server solution since they needed the server part anyway for the old devices.
Of course, after the 7.4.1 release, when they tried to make a quick fix to the problems, they realized that this client/server approach also made the client part a lot more complex on the Radio. At that time it was too late to completely change the architecture. I suspect we are going to see a changed alarm handling in 7.6 or 8.x which doesn't rely on the server as much as the current one does, but only the future will tell if this suspicion is correct or not. At least, the logic in 7.4.2 should be pretty reliable to trigger some sound, it's just that it will sometimes trigger the high volume fallback alarm instead of some nice ramped up music. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info) (Install my plugins through Extension Downloader) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library, Title Switcher and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.isaksson.info/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75541 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
