franklekens wrote: > 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.You can run a > Raspberry Pi as an always on server.
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