Ceejay, turning off the power itself is what Ill do. A practical solution would be for the red button to be multi-purpose: press it to put in stand-by, press and hold to turn it off. That seems like an easy, win-win solution, I wonder if Slim Devices will take this suggestion.
But I dont know why some of you have to be so glib with the being ill business. Its not as if Im fretting about something that cant happen. Its happened, and once is enough. Its not anticipation anxiety thats the issue, but actually being woken up in the middle of the night. Wouldnt that, realistically, take a toll on anybody? It still intrigues me that this thing happened by design, because there is no other appliance that I own, or have heard of, that has this feature by design, a feature that actually wakes its owner up in the middle of the night. The enormity of this circumstance is very disturbing, I think. Like its happening in everybody elses houses and it doesnt bother them. And contrary to what some have argued, this is not a good design since the scenario Ive experienced should be impossible, so I just cant accept any reasoning to justify the design. Slim Devices can email users any advice they want to, or in this case, why cant the user simply assume a server is down, if it is, as we universally do when we cant access info on the web? Mherger, you state: I've learned to sleep in trains, buses, at home, in the field, hanging from some bolt in a vertical wall. Do you really think thats a reasonable comparison? Are you suggesting I shouldnt unplug it every night? That its a reasonable measure of me as a man that I should tolerate this phenomenon, whenever it may occur? That I will in some way BENEFIT from this feature? Maybe I should sleep on a bed of nails with kleig lights beaming on my face and def leopard blasting is that the idea? To what end can someone justify what is obviously a design flaw? Most significantly, how can this device be used, reliably, as an alarm clock if there is some other process, outside the users control, competing with this function? Hmm? Answer: it cant be. Because a sleeping brain cant discern between the intended alarm and a false alarm, and youll eventually learn to ignore it (like the boy who cried wolf too many times), at which point its no longer useful as an alarm clock. Aubuti makes come technically good suggestions (thank you) but are more laborious than I like. Taking my PC out of hibernate mode so that my Squeezebox can stay connected to it would require the PC to be on and may avoid the problem, but having 2 devices on when Im asleep rather than 1 is clearly not in the direction I want to go. Pressing and holding down the red button to turn off is probably the best solution, at least in theory. This might be possible with a software upgrade. 3 cheers for my idea (a few others independently had this idea). Tyler, Ive already considered draping some material over it at night. And I discovered that an empty Nutri-Grain breakfast bar box fits perfectly over the SB, and blocks all light from it. All future orders of SqueezeBox 3 should be shipped with a complimentay box of Nutri-Grain, for this purpose. Catbus, your use of the term paranoia is inappropriate, I believe, since Im not expressing fear of something that cant happen. Its happened. And the thing that happened is unquestionably undesireable. No one would DESIRE this situation. Its not like Im carrying on about an URL that doesnt connect. If you want to psychoanalyze, panic would be a better term to describe my initial post, rather than paranoid. But panic simply means sudden excitement. Panic doesnt mean or imply over-reaction or irrational response, contrary to popular belief. The whole thing had me suddenly excited, as it would anybody who experienced the same thing. This is a legitimate bug and I appreciate the bug report that has been filed, as you mention. Melon monkey, and everybody, I did email support before I made the initial post. Its kinda funny how everybody assumes I didnt. But I knew a response from my SB community would be more candid, reliable, and sympathetic, which it is. One developer, Andy, has made several contributions to the thread, but he didnt indicate how prevalent this problem is I was, however, able to ascertain this via the thread, which was one of my objectives in posting. And theres nothing heretical about my statements on this thread, or other threads in this forum, not even my reference to the N800, which is actually a popular item in this forum, so Im in good company in this regard. I say not even because the N800 can actually be used as a companion device to the SqueezeBox, thereby extending its depth and breadth. BTW, I didnt mean to suggest that a LIKELY course of action was a lawsuit but not because of any assertion that the issue is frivolous, because I dont think this issue is frivolous, at all. Going into standby, then switching off with a switch attached to the cord is an easy way to safely turn the device off, and is what Ill most likely do, since anything else would be either laborious or experimental (and reliant on *software*). Now good night everyone, my melatonin is kicking in! -- NauticusLX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NauticusLX's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8981 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31652 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
