Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm and Sync?
ajkidle;487158 Wrote: > Maybe that's the trick. I could start using the power button in place > of the pause button when I want music to stop playing. I'm an iPeng > user, although have never used the master power on/off button. > It's a new feature since 1.2: The "main" power button acts on all devices of a synced group, as does the main volume bar. > > However that doesn't address what happens when an album plays in its > entirety -- the players would all stay on. > That's true. What _I_ do here (again: simple in iPeng on the players screen) is to shut off all players except the one in the bedroom and then set a "sleep" timer for the one in the bedroom. Thinking of it, you don't need the latter since the bedroom one will be the one to do the alarm anyway. And if you don't fall asleep to music you could just use that main "power" button to turn off all devices when you go to bed - this is what this feature is made for - OK, MY man use is tu turn them all off when I leave the house but that's similar, isn't it? > > Maybe I should just stop getting up at 5am...problem solved! I'd find that one the best solution. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71564 ___ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm and Sync?
Maybe that's the trick. I could start using the power button in place of the pause button when I want music to stop playing. I'm an iPeng user, although have never used the master power on/off button. However that doesn't address what happens when an album plays in its entirety -- the players would all stay on. And then it'll be a loud "good morning" throughout the house come 5am the next morning if I don't remember to turn them off. Maybe I should just stop getting up at 5am...problem solved! -- ajkidle ajkidle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18929 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71564 ___ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm and Sync?
ajkidle;487101 Wrote: > I struggle to see why anyone would want their alarms sync'd. > (Especially as one starts to accumulate several Squeezeboxen.) I don't see it this way. When I use the alarm, I often wake up to a radio station. I then tend to sync in my other Squeezeboxen in the kitchen and bathroom to keep listening. So for me at least I would not see that I prefer either use case (keeping synced or unsync), for me the "power" use case is fine, but the I do have a nice "master" power button in iPeng :D -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71564 ___ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm and Sync?
pippin;487029 Wrote: > What's the problem with turning the players off? The problem is remembering to do it each night. Same as remembering to unsync. Either way I'm doing something out of the ordinary. I generally want all of my players to start playing when I select music, so the "off" state is rarely used. I'm not arguing with the technical reasons given in the bug report. I'm not a software engineer, and it sounds like a pretty big tear-up to make an alarm sound on only one player in a sync group. However, from the end-user perspective there is a clear difference between an alarm and music playback. There are obvious reasons why music sync is wanted, I struggle to see why anyone would want their alarms sync'd. (Especially as one starts to accumulate several Squeezeboxen.) Rather than an intended or desired feature, this seems to be a "that's just how it works" limitation resulting from the underlying software architecture. All that said, I must be in the minority if this isn't a bigger deal in the forums and on bugzilla. So I'll just keep my old alarm clock and use the Radio for music playback only. -- ajkidle ajkidle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18929 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71564 ___ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm and Sync?
Leaving players off would work, although that may fail to prevent playback if you have the settings set up to sync the power state as well. There is just nothing specific in the alarm that breaks sync, for reasons given in the bug report. I can't personally say anything against a decision made for reasons of not wanting to simply change a feature at the cost of breaking something else. Ideally, it would be great if the players automatically did exactly what you want at all times without having to change settings or make more than one gesture/action. Outside of Staples commercials with the "Easy Button", I don't really see it happening all that soon :) -kdf ___ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm and Sync?
What's the problem with turning the players off? Actually "the point" of this is exactly that they don't start to play in a synced state. That's at least one point where I have no "waf" issues with my GF, she always insists to turn all devices "off" at night, whether it makes a difference or not :D -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71564 ___ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm and Sync?
Yep, I just tested it. My SBR started playing the alarm sounds. I leave my 4 players sync'd all the time, and 3 of the 4 are "on" all the time too. (What's the point of turning the Boom "off"?) So I either need to remember to unsync the Radio every night, or turn all the other players off, assuming that suppresses the alarm playback. Both options are poor and fall far short of wife-acceptance. Would be nice if there was a sync-alarm flag or some option here that could be set. Very disappointing and (imho) odd behavior. -- ajkidle ajkidle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18929 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71564 ___ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm and Sync?
Are you sure they will power up on Alarm? I have my players synced most of the time and I'm pretty sure only the one that has the alarm actually plays. The others probably get the playlist, too, but unless you enable synced power only one should actually play. It's the same as pressing play. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71564 ___ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm and Sync?
Sync'ed players become essentially one player. An alarmed player needs to be manually unsync'ed if you wish to have it operate without the rest. some details on the decision here: https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8593 -kdf -- kdf kdf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71564 ___ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
