The same exact thing has been happening to me as well. I double checked and made sure that volume was slid to the max and that I had not accidentally muted it. When the alarm should be blaring, the screen pops us for me to choose if I want to turn the alarm off or snooze.  I can hear the clicks when I touch the screen.  The alarm worked fine before I updated the control panel with the beta control panel :-(.

Is there a configuration file for the alarms on the box?  if so, we could post that.  If not, that could be a useful enhancement.

Yes, it's at /psp/alarms, and the alarm volume is stored at /psp/alarm_volume.

Hello All,

I have the same problem. Running beta sw 1.2 revision 396. I set a custom alarm for 7am daily and a 30 second beep, and the 1st day it goes off like it should. The 2nd day the alarm "goes off" by showing the alarm display but no beep (it made no noise). Fix for it, is to reboot the Chumby. Now, once the Chumby goes "alarm mute", if I set ANY more custom alarms, the UI shows the alarm but no alarm noises. What a pain... I had relied on the Chumby for alarms, and missed an important meeting because of this. So, I no longer trust the Chumby for alarms now, and I have a backup alarm with my old fashion alarm clock.

Looking forward to a fix...
-Ben

Hey guys, I just wanted to add some stuff to this "weird alarm issues" post because I just encountered some.

My chumby was running fine with alarms, but I was keeping a backup alarm clock just in case. So then on Saturday afternoon I plugged in a 9 Volt battery just because I didn't have one in there. Really didn't have a reason for it since it sets its own time, but I thought I should put one in. So then on Saturday I noticed that my silent alarms that switch the channels and go in to night mode weren't working. On Sunday morning the weekday alarm went off. After turning off the alarm, I checked the device and it clearly knew it was the weekend. Since the only thing I changed was the battery, I took it out. Then all my alarms went back to normal.

So my informal survey is: How many people with alarm issues have a battery in it?

I too am having alarm problems. So two days ago i removed all my alarms and rebuilt them. Problems started yesterday.

Issue 1)
Alarm:
Daily
at 10:10pm
Audio, forever, shoutcast
snooze: snoozing for :05 and then
do nothing.
set

This alarm went off yesterday but the fee turned off about an hour later well before the 12:00am night mode alarm (alarm 4). So i left this alone.

Come this morning screwy alarms:
Alarm 2:
Weekdays at 5:30am
audio: :20 beep
snoozing for :02
and then change to morning channel.
set

Alarm 3:
Weekdays at 5:31am
audio: forever shoutcast
snoozing for :05
and then
do nothing
set.

This alarm worked yesterday the first instance since the alarms were created. However this morning, i awoke at about 5:34 to the beep and the screen had the turn off alarm or snooze buttons. The alarm should have only played for a 20 seconds and then less then a minute later changed to the shoutcast feed. But the alarm never stopped buzzing and when i turned off the shoutcast did not come on. The volume set in the clock screen is at about 60%.  CP version 2.6.70

I have a few other alarms that change the channel during the day, but since i am not around i am assuming they are working. When i came home yesterday i was on my evening channel. Will check that again this evening.

Ok, that adds some clarity. However, if another alarm is set to go off within the alarm play period shouldn't that stop any existing alarm?

I come home today and find my chumby missed two more alarms. So far in my limited testing each alarm only seems to work once and then it breaks.

Here are the details of the two alarms that it missed (in addition to the two errors above earlier today)

1)
Weekdays at 9:10am
For :05 play "shoutcast"
Snooz for :05 and then
Change to screen saver channel
set
dont show alarm screen

2)
Daily at 5:00pm
for :05 pay shoutcast
snoozing for :03
and then change to evening channel
set
dont show alarm screen

When i came home i was still on my morning channel that is how i know it skipped these two alarms.

had a problem with the alarm this morning. Well it was my girl friends alarm. It went off but there was no audio. 20 minutes later my alarm went off fine. We both have them set to radio streams. Can't stay with beta while this is happing unless I want to sleep on the couch

Cant get to the file don't know how to get into the chumby (winscp?)

The radio station is a SHOUTcast one, sky fm absolutely smooth jazz

I have to go back to non beta control panel because we cant be screwing around with the alarms

Update re previous post above: I rebooted the chumby, set the audio to radio.  The channels changed fine, but the first alarm radio came on for about 10 seconds somewhat garbled and then choked and went off.  I tried to turn on the radio just to listen to some music and tried several channels and aside from an initial loading and then choking in a few seconds nothing.

Will do Sam!
Judy