kidstypike wrote: > I think the "Alarm Clock" is just a small side-shoot of what the Radio > actually is! :D > > Any squeezebox player (hardware or software) can act as an alarm clock, > though they all need to connect to a server to work either > mysqueezebox.com or LMS. > > If I want an alarm to wake me, I use my watch or my phone, never, ever, > a networked gadget. :eek:
Different strokes for different folks. I appreciate the huge functionality of the media server and what you can do with it, but I just have totally no need for it. I do however want an old fashioned alarm clock, with pretty big physical buttons (so I don't have to fiddle with a touch screen to set it louder or softer when I'm only still half awake) and slightly better sound than the tinny sound on my phone, and a display that just gives me the time, to set alarms for programmes to listen to at set times when I go to sleep and when I wake up. *And* with the ability to use internet radio channels as the alarm sound, obviously. Otherwise I'd just buy a conventional alarm clock without internet radio. As to the fear of not being woken in time because of network problems: that's not a problem. If the squeezebox can't connect, it starts to play a really annoying sound at the alarm time. It works really wel as a (internet) radio alarm clock. (Except that the slumber function is too deep down in the menu. When I roll into bed at night I'd prefer not to have to scroll through several menus simply to activate that function.) But if I can't have BBC3 on it I might as well start thinking about an old fashioned alarm clock without internet radio again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ franklekens's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=69461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117196 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
