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. > > >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
Ah your point being why use a network music player as alarm if no network functionality is used (local or mysb.com) ? Maybe less clutter on the bedside table. I must say that my boom have waked my up properly all the time 7.2 to 7.6 I do use the fallback alarm, my smal linux server takes more than 10 minutes do fsck every 50 boot (10 minutes before alarm the wol packet is sent) It seems to be the radio and mysb.com that is the most unstable case right now. But it has the potential to be the most reliable as it has inbuilt battery with enough juice to sound the alarm even during power-failure (there are bugs preventing this too ) -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe'Primare and Dynadio speakers (including a pair of Contour 4 ) Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Miscellaneous use: Radio (with battery) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78920 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
