Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:03 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: ext David Hagood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last - It would be nice to allow the alarm system to start the radio - for a clock radio function. Hey, that's an excellent idea! I want that feature too. (I'm not involved with FM radio in anyway, just acting here as a N800 user.) It would be good if that was only available if the FM radio applet were on the home page, and if removing the applet told you it was reconfiguring any alarms to not use the radio. Just so it's really easy to turn it off, change station, etc when the alarm goes off. -- Tristan Wibberley ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions
On 2/10/07, Tristan Wibberley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:03 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: ext David Hagood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last - It would be nice to allow the alarm system to start the radio - for a clock radio function. Hey, that's an excellent idea! I want that feature too. (I'm not involved with FM radio in anyway, just acting here as a N800 user.) It would be good if that was only available if the FM radio applet were on the home page, and if removing the applet told you it was reconfiguring any alarms to not use the radio. Just so it's really easy to turn it off, change station, etc when the alarm goes off. I'd like to see FM radio integrated with the Internet radio applet so that there is only one applet on the desktop. This would also allow coordinating muting of the radio streams, FM and Internet appear to be on two different audio paths. If you turn on the Internet radio the FM radio continues to play and is mixed in. That's probably not what you want, but your do want alerts from the desktop mixed in. Alarm functions would be nice. The radio app could also display a large clock when open. The alarm could be made smart too, if Internet or FM were not available it could try the other and then fall back to recorded music just to make sure the alarm is heard. Check out Chumby, http://www.chumby.com/ Chumby is a wifi clock radio that allows you to download various flash applets to customize your experience. It would be very easy to make the N800 emulate the Chumby. There are links to example widgets on the home page. I'd like to see a world clock for an alarm where is shows the current day/night line. Is the N800 smart enough to know when it is on AC and not blank the display? The N770 didn't appear to have this feature. The clock could be set as a screen saver when on AC power. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions
David Hagood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In the US, and IIRC in the rest of the world as well, FM radio stations are on 200kHz channel spacings, on frequencies with an odd 100 kHz digit - in other words, 87.5, 87.7, 87.9, 88.1, etc. In Germany there are stations with e.g. 89.9, 94.4 - so the even 100 kHz digits are used as well. But yeah, a spacing at 50kHz is not necessary and the automatic scanning usually stops one step before the real frequency, so that tapping the one-step-button produces better results (suddenly stereo works). It probably would be better to try locking in the real frequency, i.e. if there is a candidate, try a bit further and if it gets worse, go back again. Also tapping the scan button should probably skip 100kHz or so, because frequently you get the same station again. Bye, Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://simon.budig.de/ ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: [maemo-users] FM Radio - suggestions
David Hagood wrote: In the US, and IIRC in the rest of the world as well, FM radio stations are on 200kHz channel spacings, on frequencies with an odd 100 kHz digit - in other words, 87.5, 87.7, 87.9, 88.1, etc. Ermm, no. That is not true for Germany, at least, 100kHz stepping is the norm, fm stations are also on the even 100 kHz digits. Ralph pgpuKmbQQXQHH.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
