Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-22 Thread jmpage2
mule;497906 Wrote: > Why hasn't the following alarm bug beeing marked as > "radioAlarmsCritical"? Does it mean that we have to wait sometime longer > for a solution? > > https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14742 It doesn't matter what the priority is. That's up to Slim to determine, n

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-22 Thread mule
Why hasn't the following alarm bug beeing marked as "radioAlarmsCritical"? Does it mean that we have to wait sometime longer for a solution? https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14742 -- mule mule's Profile: http:

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-22 Thread Michael Herger
> At least we see some checkins this week to address this problem so it > might make sense to switch to 7.4.x soon. Alarm bugs are top of the priority list right now. Please keep your systems up to date (7.4.2 nightlies) if you want to test the latest improvements. -- Michael _

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-21 Thread bluegaspode
davenva;497842 Wrote: > I seem to remember experiments in college Psychology that drove rats > nuts... Never saw it this way :) At least we see some checkins this week to address this problem so it might make sense to switch to 7.4.x soon. -- bluegaspode 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet), 1xS

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-21 Thread davenva
jmpage2;496633 Wrote: > > I cringe to think what would happen if I let a couple of months go by > plugged in without rebooting the radio, as the time would likely be off > by 10 minutes or more, which is wholly unacceptable for a device I use > to get me up in the morning. Gotta love a product

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-17 Thread jef
aubuti;496635 Wrote: > I expect this should be easy to implement. It should be possible via > cron and ntp, although I'm sure more elegant solutions exist. Not rocket science -- OpenWRT does it in less-powerful WRT54G wireless routers, as did the original software. Even my Netopia 2210 DSL modem

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-17 Thread snarlydwarf
aubuti;496635 Wrote: > I expect this should be easy to implement. It should be possible via > cron and ntp, although I'm sure more elegant solutions exist. just plain ntp will do, adjusting its polling interval based on how accurate it thinks the clock is. Would need to use something like pool.

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-17 Thread aubuti
jmpage2;496633 Wrote: > The desired behavior would be that at intervals (probably 24 hours or > less) the radio goes back to the server (either local or internet) and > resets its clock so that it is always in synch. I expect this should be easy to implement. It should be possible via cron and nt

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-17 Thread jmpage2
aubuti;496471 Wrote: > Yes and no. Radio syncs to server time, and then runs on its own clock > until it resyncs when rebooted. I know because my Radio drifts, losing > almost 1 minute per week. To be fair, it's a pre-production beta unit -- > I don't know if it is a problem with the final produc

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-17 Thread aubuti
bluegaspode;496457 Wrote: > radio + server are always synced to the same time. > Yes and no. Radio syncs to server time, and then runs on its own clock until it resyncs when rebooted. I know because my Radio drifts, losing almost 1 minute per week. To be fair, it's a pre-production beta unit --

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-17 Thread bluegaspode
radio + server are always synced to the same time. Unfortunately not the same timezone. The alarm times are relative to the servers timezone. See this bug report https://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14888 Unfortunately it is scheduled to a 'Future' release, which currently translates to '

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-16 Thread aubuti
TriangleRocks;496383 Wrote: > So the time is coming from the server, not the radio??? > Wow...interesting. Actually the SB Radio does have an internal clock and keeps its own time, but it gets its initial time from the server. You probably didn't notice when you set it up that it didn't ask for

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-16 Thread TriangleRocks
Snarlythanks for the reply. I connect to SBS on my Netgear ReadyNAS Duo server, though when I first set the radio up, I was NOT using it, I connected to MySqueezebox.com. About two weeks after I set the radio up, it had connection issues, and told me I needed to upgrade the SBS software on my

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-16 Thread snarlydwarf
TriangleRocks;496376 Wrote: > It appears the alarm clock app has major issues, but I'm seeing issues I > don't see discussed here. First, my alarms work, but they work 3 hours > later than they are scheduled. I have an alarm set for 5:30am during the > week, but it goes off at 8:30am. On weekends

[SlimDevices: Radio] Alarm clock issues...new ones!

2009-12-16 Thread TriangleRocks
It appears the alarm clock app has major issues, but I'm seeing issues I don't see discussed here. First, my alarms work, but they work 3 hours later than they are scheduled. I have an alarm set for 5:30am during the week, but it goes off at 8:30am. On weekends, it's set for 9am, but it goes off a