The Booms alarm in my opinion is much more unreliable. Sure - if everything is ok it will sound an alarm (as will the Radio), but if something is wrong (server connection or stream) it will silently fail, where the Radio has a much better fallback mechanism. Indeed - most people complaining about the Radio alarm do so not because its not sounding at all, but because the fallback is a bit too strict (just one glimpse of streams errors-and it will go off), thus they very often just hear the fallback if their network has trouble.
Buy the way: with 7.5.2 the fallback will fade in, so its not as shocking as it used to be. -- bluegaspode Big Screen for great Boxes available now at your AppStore: *'Squeezebox + iPad = SqueezePad ' (www.squeezepad.com)* - -now featuring streaming to iPad!- Want to see a Weather Forecast on your Radio/Touch/Controller ? => why not try my 'Weather Forecast Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827) Want to use the Headphones with your Controller ? => why not try my 'Headphone Switcher Applet' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67139) Setup: 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xSB-Boom. 2xSB-Radio Server (7.5.1) running on SheevaPlug (Ubuntu) with attached Western Digital MyBook Essential. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bluegaspode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31651 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84806 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
