agbagb wrote: > I know ALARM can be a quirky function; and I know using a radio stream > as the alarm adds to that quirkiness..... However: > > Attached is a log of what is odd behavior on a Radio every morning for > the past few days. Essentially, I go to sleep with a BBC R3 stream from > LMS until SLEEP cuts it out at 0230. Then ALARM is set for 0730, > running a BBC R4 stream (i.e. runs until manually stopped). Almost > always works fine.... **Until 0817 every morning**, when it switches to > the Disco Blast (which at least now runs quietly, since finding that > useful Reduce Volume patch....). > > Ideas welcome.
Problem are due to not using the sort of URL the Alarm expects - Alarm code was written abour 10 years before streaming tech changes (chunked http, http 1.0 vs 1.1) and also before playing restrictions were added by BBC and other stations. 1. You cannot really use BBCiPlayer URLs with alarms becuase it is using chunked http - alarms expects normal http stream and has mechanism to handle temporary fault and the chunked http is probably confusing it. 2. Use a BBC MP3 stream for alarms - it is normal http. Do not use a URL with a time token otherwise stream will not restart (i.e pull the playlist apart first and strip parameters from URLs) to avoid BBC restriction mechanism 3. The long delay messages meansyou have are getting poor dervice from BBC and packets which shoudl takeonly or have problems in local LAN. Stream is made up of 6 sec chunks - instead of a packet arriving in about 80-100ms - yours are taken 2-3 secs and ones was abiut 4.5sec - huge delays. The disconnection are becuase packet were not received within a timelimit and so stream was disconnected by BBC. 4. What is the alarm duration setting for the alarm as shown on the WebUI ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110274 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
