Hi, I have been looking at the ability for auto-recovery after an unexpected reboot (such as a power failure and failed UPS, etc).
The information in the Wiki is pretty straight forward - make sure BIOS is set to auto-on, Linux set for auto-login, and have a script / auto start which fires RDAirplay, loads the log for the day, and does a play-next. Fairly straight forward, I've tested this and it works well. I'm probably overlooking some obvious application here, so if I am I apologize in advance. My question is - does anyone know of a Linux app which will 1) delay a settable amount of time before launching an app, and 2) while it is delaying, have a visual countdown indicator on the screen with a box you can click to cancel launching the app? Ideally I'd like this app to be a graphical app. My reasoning - if an unexpected outage and reboot happens when someone is in the studio (and lets say - for example - they're playing a CD at time time while the computer reboots) I don't always want it to launch right into RDAirplay and start playing a log right away. If someone is in the studio I'd like them to have a box pop up on the screen which says something like "Launching RDAirplay in XX seconds" (counting down - for this example let's say starting at 30 seconds, although this would be a setting). There'd be a Cancel button that could be clicked to cancel. Or if untouched it would launch RDAirplay using the command line which auto-loads and starts playing a log. I know something like this can be done with the sleep command in the command line (which you could always ctrl-break out of it) but I'm looking for the equivalent graphical app. I know I've seen something like this before but for some reason it slips my mind. Thanks _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
