Topic: Alarm Stream?
Is is possible to get the alarm to use a mp3 stream from the .net as the alarm?
Thanks,
John
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Is is possible to get the alarm to use a mp3 stream from the .net as the alarm?
Thanks,
John
Not at the moment (9/6/07), however, that is a very high priority feature in the pipeline.
Until then, you *can* play an mp3 of your choosing from a USB flash drive as an alarm.
I just got my Chumby last night. I was hoping that this feature was already implemented, as I bought the Chumby to replace my alarm clock (it's a very expensive alarm clock otherwise). I can't get good radio reception where my alarm clock is located.
If I made a script that downloaded a podcast and had it overwrite the alarm each day, would that work?
I put a script on a USB drive with the following:
btplay http://s5.purestream.net:8030 & sleep 1800 ; killall btplay
That starts playing a stream from gofmradio.com for 45 minutes. I put some entries in the chumby's crontab, so it starts playing when I want it to.
15 7 * * 3,5 /mnt/usb/gofm.sh
45 6 * * 1,2,4 /mnt/usb/gofm.sh
30 9 * * 0,6 /mnt/usb/gofm.sh
Of course this makes shutting off the music a bit of a pain since it doesn't use the normal alarm interface.
blobpet, this is closer to what I want. Thanks. This little guy could end up being exactly what I want.
I'm a software engineer, but I'm not familiar with flash (yet). Is it possibly to make a Alarm Clock Widget that controls btplay? For now I'm thinking something simply along the lines of: Radio Turns on at some time. Then 15 minutes later it switches (or mixes) a buzzing sound into it, then when I silence it, it switches back to the streaming radio.
Is it possibly to make a Alarm Clock Widget that controls btplay?
You should read http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=603. Apparently we can't make exec calls from widgets yet.
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