Seconded.

I can manage with having to do it myself, but it would be a lot more convenient if there were an option to go into Night Mode automatically at a set time, and 'wake up' either at a set time or when the alarm goes off.

It's a minor inconvenience, but I'd prefer not having to negotiate a small touchscreen when I'm half-asleep.

Yup - I third that.  It's been requested in a few other threads as well.  That would be great if the night time could be configurable.  Maybe in the future you could even set a "night widget"...this way you can choose a dark colored one as well.

This would be cool... But I'd like to option to "wake up" my chumby too... So say my chumby goes to night mode at 10 pm and wakes up at 6 am. Say, for some reason, at 2 am I really want to play a YouTube video on it... I want to be able to override the night mode easily and put it back to bed manually.  (I also have a Nabaztag, which won't wake up early for love nor money, which has been inconvenient at times.)

<b>So the click to "Night mode" on the Control Panel is not enough?</b>

Not really, ideally there should be some kind of light-sensor, however I appreciate that this is one of those things that is easier said than done.

If the device does not play nice in the bedroom then I can see it being banished from that room

There seem to be two related but different questions here:

a) How should chumby 'know' when it is night-time?
b) What should chumby do differently at night compared to day?

Sal

I really think that we should be able to program Chumby to have different channels come on at different times of the day and on different days of the week.  It's really what I imagined Chumby to do and me.

I'd like to be able to set up a schedule, including wake up alarms, for a week at a time (or more).  I want to even be able to program naps, so it would wake me up more than one time a day.

We should even be able to program music to play at different times.

The Ambient Light Sensor was voted off the island do to some weird hysteresis issues noted in some other thread, and it's very evident in Alpha Chumbies (the light will go down when the lights go dim, then when the lights come back on, it struggles to maintain the correct output, cycling between a few brightness/dimness stages.

Anyways, I think the right solution (for me anyway) would simply be a software one; schedule a "bedtime" and have the device turn off the LCD until a given "wakeup" time. It would be nice if you could touch the screen and wake the device up if you needed to, and have it automatically turn back off after 5 minutes if it's still between "bedtime" and "wakeup" time. I wouldn't imagine this being too hard to hack into a control panel, if someone wants to give it a shot.

http://wiki.chumby.com/mediawiki/index. … for_chumby
What you're looking for (specifically) is the Flash function _setLCDMute(2);

Keep in mind that the Control Panel is a widget with some "special" functionality. The Default control panel isn't very hackable, but it's entirely possible for you to make your own control panel in Flash (and to implement similar functionality in any scripting language or toolkit for secondary software support).

One of the really hard things about the device right now is that it seems very stiff, but as more and more people start getting Chumbys and the code starts flowing, things will become more open and there will be a lot more in the way of personalization and configuration.

I'd like to support the basic idea and any/all of the additional suggestions, but also a means of showing an alarm is set without having to go down to the control panel, a dim orange-red asterisk in a corner on the night screen would be great. Call me compulsive, but I must make sure the alarm is on five nights/week and off the other two, so it means putting on glasses and handling the device, something I don't have to do with the clock-radio.

Thank you for what's already a nice device with great promise to come.

/Steve

I'd love this feature.

I 5th the suggestion to be able to set a time to auto-sleep and auto-wake. Also, not sure of anyone else has a problem with this but my Chumby's sleep mode is still too bright for me ... I have to turn Chumby to the wall because the glow (from the "dark" pixels) is annoying. So, being able to really minimise the glow from the sleep mode would be very desirable for me.