Hey Duane... many thanks for all you've done for us. I've been watching the Chumby development closely and I'd like to offer some help. I actually live in San Diego as well... I used to work in the building right across the street from you guys... so not sure if that's any help to you at all, but I thought I'd throw it out there. I have a background in IT help desk and customer support, so I'm ready to lend a hand if you think I might be of some assistance to you.

And the clock widget is LCARS, correct?   

Ok. Well just let me add my thanks for all you do, it is very much appreciated. I know a lot of people have offered to donate $$ and I can do that too. But if you need bandwidth, mirrors, whatever, please put it out there. I'm sure you will get a good response!

Blue Octy is the name of the new company - I'm just using it to refer to the new systems.  Everything will remain with the Chumby branding.

Very well done!
You picked many of the greats for it and it was touching too.

Ah, I so sad. I'll admit I never thought it would be viable and am somewhat surprised it lasted so long.
It's a shame as my original chumby still sits proudly on the kitchen bench. Until today it has been cycling between the stylish clock and the weather for years. My wife loved it. The construction is so organic. I'll shed a tear and try and stuff an android phone in the same place. It won't be the same.

^^ haha, I have a long time between posts!

you *can* make the 8 play custom music for alarms, you just have to get a little tricky.

put the music on a usb, or copy it over to the device itself, if you've got space for it. (I use one of those barely bigger than the usb connector usb drives myself)

then go into the music menu from the main page (green notes). select 'my streams'.

create a new one, give it a name, and put in the url, in my example, using my usb mounted music, the url is:

file:///mnt/usb-AEA9-94FF/penguin.mp3

save it.  play it to make sure it works.

then while setting up the alarm, under alarm sound, pick 'music', and 'my streams'.

select the stream you set up before, and now wake to your music!

I tried using a playlist, and it worked a couple times, then quit... not sure what happened there.

I've also got the chumby reading my work schedule and setting itself, 'get up early' 'get up late' or 'don't get up at all' for weekends and holidays   but that was a bit of crafty awk programming.

Would you prefer Blue Sexy?

I'm right there with you!  Paying an annual fee for this would be no problem at all.  I was suprised from the beginning that this was all free.  MY check is ready to go.

Yes, that's the C8 Control Panel timing out and wanting to return to playing widgets.  I haven't fixed that yet.

It would have nothing to do with the switchover - we keep no part of the SHOUTcast directory, but pass on the requests from the devices after attaching the API key.  We do cache common requests for an hour or so, but that's it.

i just did a search for "KUOW" on shoutcast.com and got no results.  Looks like they're gone, at least for now.