Alarm Plugin Deprecated.

[alterEgo]

Thank you very much for the alarm plugin. It worked wonderful all the time.

After ugrading to sc7.2 and the new internal alarm clock, the snooze function isn't working anymore. If I hit a arrow button after the alarm has started, they have only their normal behaviour.

Is there a solution for this problem?
Is is it possible to go back to sc7.1 (on kubuntu)?

Thanks in advance

[max.spicer]

>Actually, I believe Max said that there was still some support for per-alarm volumes in the code (but you can't set it in the UI). I keep meaning to look into it - wondering if I could frig the configuration of two alarms on one player by editing the prefs file directly.

Yup, the underlying api supports this. You could do it by editing your prefs manually, or using the cli.

I guess if enough people wanted it, we could even have an advanced mode for the alarm, that pops in more options.

Max

[max.spicer]

Now this sounds interesting!
I had a look in the preferences file and you were right, there are still entries for per-alarm volume settings.
If set manually in the prefs file they even survive saving of the alarm.
Now I need to find out if they're not just simply ignored.

It should all work just fine - it's a supported part of the alarm code.

There's also a comment field per alarm but it doesn't get used for anything and is blanked out when the alarm is changed.

I put the comment in as a "for the future" feature. It's not used anywhere at the moment, as you've found out. It should not get blanked out however - please file a bug on this.

Max

[max.spicer]

After ugrading to sc7.2 and the new internal alarm clock, the snooze function isn't working anymore. If I hit a arrow button after the alarm has started, they have only their normal behaviour.

During an alarm, use the Sleep button to trigger a snooze. Or use the Boom's snooze button.

Max

[max.spicer]

Is there a way to set alarm duration?

There's an alarm timeout setting in the web ui.

Max

[kdf]

alterEgo wrote:
> Thank you very much for the alarm plugin. It worked wonderful all the
> time.
>
> After ugrading to sc7.2 and the new internal alarm clock, the snooze
> function isn't working anymore. If I hit a arrow button after the alarm
> has started, they have only their normal behaviour.
>
> Is there a solution for this problem?
>
try the 'sleep' button.
-kdf

[boomdijk]

If you feel there is something missing, please check the existing bug reports and file enhancement requests of your own if you don't find one existing.

cheers,
kdf

Where can i find the feature request url?

Johan

[sk33ve]

Another quick thank you note to kdf - the plugin has been brilliant, working flawlessly until I upgraded to 7.2 today and started using the internal alarm instead.

Excellent plugin, would have been lost without it!

[alterEgo]

alterEgo wrote:
> After ugrading to sc7.2 and the new internal alarm clock, the snooze
> function isn't working anymore. If I hit a arrow button after the alarm
> has started, they have only their normal behaviour.
>
> Is there a solution for this problem?
>
try the 'sleep' button.
-kdf

That's it. Thank you. You saved my day.

[Philip Meyer]

>I guess if enough people wanted it, we could even have an advanced mode
>for the alarm, that pops in more options.
That would be nice, but not sure it needs to be moved into an "advanced mode" set of preferences. I find it more confusing having per-player preferences after the list of alarms, than if they were just options for each alarm.

There would be no need for a per-player alarm volume slider. As most people I guess will only have one alarm per player, there would be no more sliders to add to the page (slider moves from per-player setting to the alarm setting). Adding additional alarms is more advanced than worrying about more than one volume per alarm.

The default per-alarm volume could be the average of all other alarms for that player, or 50% if none.