I'm starting to see a pattern in the way the alarm works. Mind you, this may be something commonly known to long time SBR owners, but as a newbie I've just discovered it (& as usual, it's not covered in the skimpy manual).
Rule of thumb: At the time you set the alarm parameters (especially the alarm sound option), be sure your SBR is connected to the server that will be "alive" when it's supposed to go off. For example, if I set up my alarm and choose a Sound Effect when the SBR is connected to my PC's SBServer, then shut my PC (or server) down when I go to bed, the alarm that's played will always be the default "rock guitar" sound rather than my chosen sound effect. In essence, the alarm sound menu choices are actually "pointers" to the choices, not the choices themselves. There's one set of pointers that "lives" on your local SB Server, and there's one set that lives on mysqueezebox.com. And, to make it confusing, they can look identical. They both will list "Current Playlist", Favorites, Musical Sounds, Natural Sounds, & Sound Effects. I think I read somewhere that Favorites (& maybe presets too) saved when connected to SBServer & Favorites/presets saved when connected to mysqueezebox.com are supposed to "sync" up, but they don't (or at least they never have for me). I had to create two identical sets in order to access my favorites & preset buttons so that regardless of which server I was currently connected to, they would play. So if you've set your alarm sound when connected to SBServer, the SBR alarm is going to look for the "pointer" to your favorite or sound on the SBServer. And if your home SBServer is down, it won't find the pointer, and will therefore play the default alarm sound. So for me, since I shut down my SBServer at night, before I set up an alarm, I make sure that I'm connected to myqueezebox.com first (I added the "switch to myqueezebox.com item to my home menu). It always plays the right favorite/sound when I do this. -- BLatSD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BLatSD's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38631 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79559 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
