There's an awful lot of functionality possible in the custom alarms. I've been hesitant to do a whole lot because for me, there isn't really enough feedback in the Beta control panel to easily show what you've done... or the ease of tweakitude to change complicated things easily.
I'm aware it's a Beta. I'm cool with what it can do now. I'm eager to see what comes next.
That said, I would *love* to be able to edit and deploy custom "events" ('cuz really - they're much more than alarms) from the Web. The functionality possible from doing so, particularly if we can find an easy way to get from the low voltage on the Chumbilical to 115VAC, is pretty staggering.
And from a simple functionality standpoint, it would be easier for me to configure custom events on the web the way I build channels on the web now. It gives me a keyboard, a mouse, copy/paste, and all the rest. Even cooler? I'd love to be able to load and save custom event configurations and push them from the web onto my Chumby.
Here's what I'd love to be able to do:
Set an alarm for 6:15am - maybe the ocean waves from the sleep sounds widget... or stay in night mode and play some environmental MP3 or other.
Have the Chumby switch to internet radio at 6:45am, and start giving me a few weather widgets - ONCE.
Switch over to another channel of webcams.
Swap to another channel at say 6PM.
Go to night mode at 10pm.
I'm hesitant to build that stack on the Chumby right now because if I need to change my wakeup time by half an hour, I have to reconfigure an entire stack of events... via a (let's admit it - fairly fiddly) touchscreen... and hope it wakes me up. As I'm paranoid about alarms anyway, I'm a little spooked by that.
This is all completely possible in Chumby *NOW* - I'd just like it to be a little easier to do. Any chance?
Seth
Slave to the Light, Inc.
Los Angeles & Seattle USA
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