I am totally having this same problem.  The alarm will work just fine for a few days and then one day I will wake up to see the alarm screen but no sound.

This is a major pain obviously and gives me little trust in the alarm.  Personally I bought the chumby to be my sole nightstand device... an alarm clock on steroids if you will.  So I hope this issue will get resolved somehow.

Is it just my chumby and this other gentleman's or is this a more systemic issue?

Brian

I noticed this for the first time last week.  Took a reboot of the Chumby to get my alarm working again.

Yeah, if you guys can find a consistent pattern to this behavior, we're interested in hearing about it.

Probably not much at the moment - there is active development on improving and optimizing the chumby's audio subsystem, so I think you can expect this to be addressed in firmware updates at some point.

Hey Duane,

Thanks for the response.  You have been very helpful on the boards.  However, I must say that I do not understand your response.

I would think that either:

1.  This is a recognized issue that you have reproduced and you are definitely fixing it in an upcoming update.

OR

2.  This is not an issue that you can reproduce and therefore, we may have a faulty Chumby.

It seems that you are saying you have not seen this issue and that I just need to hope it gets fixed sometime down the road.

Is this correct?

Duane, as soon as I see a pattern, I will let you know.  I'm pretty good at waking up on my own, but it was quite the bummer to look over and see my Chumby on the alarm screen with no sound.

Got my Chumby for Christmas and I'm having the exact same problem.  No iPod hooked up.  So far the issue has been resolved by resetting.  I'll post if it happends again.  For what it's worth, I only have one channel and it only has the blue "built in clock" and the "Weather by the Weather Channel".

To the other posters on this thread: Are you still having the same problem even after resetting?

Scoob

I am intermittently having the same problem.  It's corrects itself when I reboot, but pops back up periodically.  I should note that I am running the Beta control panel & don't recall this happening with the stable control panel.

Typically, when the issue occurs & there is a widget that *should* produce sound, there is a brief crackle & then nothing.

I haven't noticed a pattern yet with any widgets or other functions triggering the problem.

i think i have the same problem:

i do streaming a lot from shoutcast and i have connected my chumby to an amplifier via the stereo jack connector. After 2-3 minutes of streaming the sound will turn down, dissapear from one chanel, come back again and so on...
so i can't use it !
if i unplug the jack connector and i wait for 5 secs than inser it again it will work for another 2-3 minutes

what can i do?

thx