[SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm is awful.
I am absolutely sick and tired of trying to get the alarm to work. For something that looks like it should be possible to use it as a clock radio this is the worst feature of the Radio. Every time updates come out I install in the hope that THIS time it will fix the awfulness of the alarm but no. I have the alarm set to play a radio station favourite. The radio is connected to the internet and playing the same station in the evening when it sleeps. I also use a ReadyNAS which doesn't turn on or off during the night (and shouldn't make any difference anyway). What happens? Sometimes I get the default noise straight away, this morning I got about 30 seconds of my chosen radio station and then the default noise again - I hadn't snoozed or tried to turn off, it just started playing. And the radio which played was live, it wasn't a 'left over' bit from last night's buffer. And COME ON - if you must have a default noise does it have to be so HORRIBLE? I also have a serious gripe about the way the volume of the alarm messes up the volume of play for everything else. I usually have my radio playing through powered speakers on either side of the bed attached through the headphone socket. For this I have the radio volume set to about 50 and then I get an appropriate range of volume with the speaker control. The alarm plays only through the radio speaker and doesn't use the attached speakers. (How annoying is that.) Thankfully(hahahaa!) there is a volume control (in the alarm set up options) for the alarm which perports to be separate from that for normal play. So obviously when playing through the radio speaker I don't want it at 50 so I set it much lower. Then I find that once the alarm has done its total FAIL (as above) the volume for normal play when I manually start the radio up and it plays through the speakers has also been turned right down. I'm not going to use the alarm again but I'm so annoyed by it I felt the need to rant about it (again). Sorry about that - I'll go have a cup of tea now, calm down and go to argos and buy a clock radio that might actually work. -- Straille Straille's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82092 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] The alarm worked this morning!
And today it was back to the same old nonsense again. :( -- Straille Straille's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78345 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] The alarm worked this morning!
On the off chance that this helps anyone, I was always getting the horrible looping 'tune' instead of my chosen radio station. I had only set the alarm up while connected to mysqueezebox.com but it had been synchronised to my readynas server. Deleting (not just disabling) the alarm on the server appears to have fixed the problem. Admittedly the radio station played for about 23 minutes rather than an hour, but it was a lot better than the horrible noise that it has done every morning recently. I await with interest to see if it works tomorrow morning! -- Straille Straille's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78345 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] Screen display remains in 'while playing' mode after sleep
Think that pretty much sums it up! I have the transparent digital clock for while something is playing and the black and white digital clock when it has stopped. If I use sleep mode (the one thing I have found to work consistently well, so I expect in the next release it will die a horrible death) to turn the radio off as I go to sleep the screen stays on a clock with the coloured background which is usually only there to remind me to turn something off. Software version 7.5.0 r 8673. Is there a version I need to find or a setting I am missing somewhere? -- Straille Straille's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77964 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Problem with alarm sound
And now it doesn't. If I'm lucky I get about ten seconds of the radio station I set to be the alarm sound before that AWFUL loop starts. And there's no nice fade in either. Just ON and IN YOUR FACE noise! I would roll back, but the release and associated duet release fixed some problems with that. Why can't these things all work at the same time? -- Straille Straille's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77883 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] How good is the radio as an alarm clock
I'm using my fairly new Radio as an alarm and it hasn't let me down so far. I'm using a ReadyNAS server which is not on 24/7 but is on all night, so as long as I know it's on when I go to bed I'm not relying on it switching on in the morning. The only time it will let you down (non UK people look away now) is if the timezone on your ReadyNAS is set to GMT: Greenwich Mean Time, come British Summer Time the server does not update and the alarm goes off an hour later than the time it's set for. I don't really understand how this works when the time was correct on the front of the radio, but I tried it several times thinking that the alarm wasn't working until I realised. (The timezone needs to be set to GMT: Western European.) Happily I did find this out while testing it on Sunday, not on Monday morning! -- Straille Straille's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76699 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Left - Right balance on external speakers?
Yeah - I can see why you wouldn't bother on a mono radio, but it does output in stereo so thought it was worth asking I had a rather more low tech answer, I'm using PC speakers and turned it all into a 3.1 arrangement. Not perfect yet and may rearrange everything when I get round to decorating the room but pigs might fly! -- Straille Straille's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76637 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
[SlimDevices: Radio] Left - Right balance on external speakers?
I have a SB Radio which is playing through external speakers on either side of the bed, but on one side the speaker has to be further away, and the nearer side also has the sub so it is like it's still in mono. Is there (could there be) any way to adjust the balance between the right and left to boost up the quieter side? I'm running a readynas and the radio is on software version 7.4.2. Cheers! -- Straille Straille's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35776 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76637 ___ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
