I just got this radio and the alarm was working great until today.
Last night I was listening to Howard stern and the radio stopped.
A bug msg appeared asking if I wanted to send the report in.
Anyways, I rebooted it and went to sleep.
I woke up this morning to a song on my local hd.that
Rikk;529613 Wrote:
So it frequently happens that the Radio plays the song on its internal
memory, that is at a volume definitely too high, making me jumpm out of
bed (I not already due to my son).
have a look on the thread: How to get a traditional alarm sound?
thanks ;)
anyway I filed a bug for this:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15982
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I didn't bother to rea the entire thread. But answering the origianl
quesation: I use it as an alarm everyday and I never had a problem that
caused the alarm to not fire. (On ocasion backup- alarm sound, yes. But
it has never failed to wake me up.)
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Muele
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2 Radios (1 battery), 2
JonWill;529534 Wrote:
Is anyone using a Radio as an alarm clock? Is it reliable as such? ANd
how god is the scren ... I am very shortsighted, and my current alarm
clock (now falling to bits) has very clera 2-3cm high numerals ... is
there anyone else in the same boat using one with
I have not had problems using in as an alarm clock... since last week.
And, in order to get to this point, I had to upgrade to the lastest
7.4.3 version of software and then manually apply a fix for to the
alarm file from the 7.5 stream.
I would only consider something truly reliable if my
That's what I feared. I think what I actually need is a clock-radio
with an iPod dock so when I'm stuck in bed I can listen to whatever I
want ... shame, I have plans for Squeezeboxes taking over my house ...
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JonWill
I used radio and boom as alarm clocks. No issues with any of them. But i
also have a second alarm that tells me when i listened to enough music
and realy need to move.
All (radio, boom, clock) of them have 2cm digits, but without glasses i
can't read any of them ;)
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fragfutter
JonWill;529558 Wrote:
That's what I feared. I think what I actually need is a clock-radio
with an iPod dock so when I'm stuck in bed I can listen to whatever I
want ... shame, I have plans for Squeezeboxes taking over my house ...
If you have plans to allow Squeezebox to take over your home
I have been successful using the Radio as an alarm clock. As iPhone
states, the setup is important. I had alarm problems early on when I
was using sound effects which actually come from mysqueezebox.com.
When I set my alarm sound to an mp3 which is on my local server, which
runs 24/7, my
I also use the Radio as a daily alarm clock. Do have a 24/7 server
though.
Personally I wouldn't try with a server going/down up regularly as this
could spoil your alarm experience if you don't get it right (which is
hard, as the Radio doesn't send out a reliable WOL yet).
Only when I need to
I use the Radio as my primary alarm clock, even if I have a backup that
is my 11 months old son.
My configuration is without a local server, my SB3 and Radio are always
wirelessly connected to internet.
I cant remember it failed to ring, but very often it fails to have a
reliable connection with
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
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