erland;522953 Wrote: > 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 - I hope they will learn from this. Now that "slim" has become "fuller figure", they really need to move on and take advantage of their fundamental paradigm shift. "One size fits all" just doesn't work... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75541 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
