This is not a software solution, but I am a happy customer nonetheless:
http://www.now-zen.com/
I bought one of their "Zen Alarm Clocks" for my wife 10+ years ago and
it is still the alarm we prefer to wake up to. Now & Zen even repaired
it for free, years out of warranty, when it fell off a counter and
stopped working.
I used to set mp3s to start playing out of cron. For a while, I had
cron call a script to gradually turn on the overhead lights in our
bedroom (X10 + Firecracker.) Compared to those, an actual alarm clock
with no digital components seems elegant.
Jim
Christopher Yarger wrote:
this might help
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/22/how-to-use-your-linux-machine-as-an-alarm/
i think that a sound file with the xmms?
good luck
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:38 -0500, Josh Sled wrote:
Alvin ONeal <[email protected]> writes:
I hate being woken up by a loud buzzing alarm clock, or sleeping through the
radio. I've been looking into progressive alarm clocks and I'm wondering if any
of you know of some software that might
do the same sort of thing - turn on the screen and sound/song at a certain time
and slowly go to a white screen at 100% brightness and loudness?
crontab entries to start playing something (perhaps in a loop), then
every N minutes after that to issue `amixer` commands to raise the
volume incrementally?
Don't know about screen brightness control, but certainly there's
probably something to take over X with a % shade-of-gray.
