>It's getting painfully obvious that it gets too complex to reliably >include anything that's dependent on the network or a server when >triggering the alarm in the Radio. I don't know why that should be the case - my SB3 alarm works reliably, and that should be less reliable, as the code is running on the server, not the player.
>I'm sure it's possible to do but probably not within a reasonable time/cost >with the limited number of development resources Logitech has dedicated >to the Squeezebox development. > It shouldn't be that hard, surely, to make a reliable alarm. Surely one of the reasons for this Radio player, is to act as an alarm clock, and reasonable development resources should be put in to get it to work, rather than depend on production of a third-party applet with reduced functionality. >- Only focus on functionality to wake you up in the morning, ignore >other use cases for the alarm functionality. Restricted functionality, that wouldn't be useful for me. >- Only make it possible to set the alarm through the Radio user >interface, no support for setting alarms through MySB web site or >through SBS user interface. Setting alarms through other interfaces shouldn't be complex. There's no reliability issues. >- Always play the same file when the alarm is triggered but make it >possible to use your own small mp3 file downloaded to the Radio and >make it possible to configure the volume. Sounds like that would involve some other UI, eg. within SBS, to select a file to get into the Radio. >- In the alarm popup make it possible to select to: Oh no, not alarm popup dialogs again ;-) I thought you were focusing on functionality to wake a user up, ignoring other functionality. >In a solution like this no network or server is involved until the user >select to play a preset/favorite, this should make it very reliable and >predictable unless I'm missing something obvious. > Or users could just use the alarm on their mobile phone instead. It has the same basic functionality. Phil _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
