JAD1;634343 Wrote: > > GoCubs;625763 Wrote: > > I've gone ahead and posted 5.9.7 to www.gregbrown.net. > > > > Greg, > > > > I realize you've been busy. Like others of us, I really appreciate the > > updates. Today I saw a tornado watch appear on my Boom, a real rarity > > in Philadelphia, even though a tornado touched down last week and added > > on to the excitement from an earthquake, yet another rarity that was > > felt by few, days before. I wanted to see what folks thought about > > adding an audible alarm that would draw our attention to severe weather > > alerts. We have a lot of options in how we control the alarm clock, so a > > severe weather alert with similar audible features might meet most > > peoples preferences. Would you consider adding this feature? I'd love > > to hear what others think too. > > > > > > Hi Joe- > > Thanks for the suggestion. This was either discussed before or maybe > I just contemplated it when I added the weather alert support. > Audible alerts would be cool but they present some challenges. Which > players should the alert be played on? If the player is off should it > turn it on and play the alert? What if there's an existing playlist? > Should it add or wipe out the existing alert? What if repeat is > enabled? Any different behavior if a player is already on? What > about volume levels or if a player is on mute? > > What also complicates things is that the code would have to keep > track of alerts that it's already done an audible alert for. > Currently the code sort of wipes the data state with each data > refresh so the alert would play over and over with each refresh. > > None of these things are rocket science to handle, but would require > many configuration options to make everyone happy. In the end it > would likely over complicate the configuration. I'm also a bit > cautious on any liability that comes with it. :) > > So in the end at the time I decided it wasn't a path to go down :) > Of course that could always change depending on feedback. > > Thanks > Greg
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