Philip Meyer;548506 Wrote: > >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. > SB3 and the other old ip3k based players are completely different, they have ALL the logic on the server side. The problem with the new SqueezeOS based players is that they have a lot of logic on the player side that sometimes conflicts with the logic on the server side. It makes things a lot more difficult because you need to handle cases when the server and player states are inconsistent, it gets even harder when you don't want to change the server logic because you still want to support the old players.
If Logitech had used a solution on the Radio where all the logic where in the server, the Radio alarm would have had similar reliability as the SB3. The result would of course be that you don't get any alarm if the server is down or inaccessible for some reason. Philip Meyer;548506 Wrote: > > > >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. > Completely agree, but unless Logitech is prepared to add more resources to the Squeezebox development, do we really want them to put all focus on alarm handling and give the music listening part lower priority ? I really want them to get past these "extras" to start putting some more focus on the music browsing/listening experience. Logitech can always include the third party solution later if they like it, not that this has been the case very often so far but... -- 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=78920 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
