AlienBBC with Alarm

[jlsd]

Has anyone managed to get a BBC radio stream (via alienbbc) to work as an alarm?

I've tried but about 15-20 seconds after the alarm goes it seems to give up and uses the default buzzer.

Any ideas?

[jlsd]

I should add that alienbbc works fine the rest of the time - the problem is only with alarms. I've set a live stream as a favourite and assigned this to an alarm.

[ModelCitizen]

If I was you I'd just make the chosen BBC channel stream a favorite and then use that for you alarm.

i.e for BBC Radio 4 use http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wm_asx/aod/radio4.asx

This does not use AlienBBC files as it's an asx stream

MC

[jlsd]

Yes, that did the trick. Thanks muchly.

[jlsd]

...although I now have another problem with it. The alarm works and the station plays for about 30 minutes and then loses the connection. I have the alarm set to play for 90 minutes. Any ideas?

[bpa]

I think this will work.

Create a playlist with the same URL multiple times and then set the alarm to play the playlist.

[jlsd]

Sounds a good idea - testing now ...

[ModelCitizen]

Good idea... but why is it loosing connection after 30 mins? This does not happen to me and if you are using the BBC Radio 4 asx stream url above we are doing the same thing.

MC

[dwilliams01]

did you see the other thread about a connection timeout issue with bbc 4? There is a timeout setting that should be increased somewhere.

[jlsd]

Unfortunately the problem remains after testing bpa's playlist suggestion. I've also increased the Setting/Advanced/Network/Radio Station Timeout to maximum.

It seems to drop consistently after 30-40 minutes. I have a strong signal and a reliable internet connection. I've also tried it at different times of the day but this results in the same behaviour.

Any other ideas?