• Registered: 2007-08-25
  • Posts: 13

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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  • Registered: 2006-08-24
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Re: Alarm Stream?

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.

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  • Registered: 2007-10-12
  • Posts: 74

Re: Alarm Stream?

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?

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  • Registered: 2007-10-12
  • Posts: 4

Re: Alarm Stream?

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.

  • Registered: 2007-10-12
  • Posts: 74

Re: Alarm Stream?

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.

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  • Registered: 2007-10-12
  • Posts: 4

Re: Alarm Stream?

jhaluska wrote:

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.