Topic: Alarm Recommendations
There's a lot of what I like about the way alarms are handled in the Chumby, but I can't help but feel it can be simplified. Here are some recommendations based on my usage and reading other people's issues in the forums:
* I believe most people will set more than one alarm, so might as well give them the list of alarms when selecting "Alarm" from the Control Panel.
* I think that most of our needs are met by the 'quick' alarm editor panel, so make it be the default, and add a button to it which brings up the extended editor for changing alarm durations, night mode, and so on. All alarms should be the same; but there may be more than one way given to the user to edit them.
* It seems to me the most of our reasons for using the extended mode is to specify which days of the week the alarms should run. I recommend adding that to the quick alarm editor. The default would be daily.
* If an alarm was modified using the extended editor, then when the user selects the alarm from the list for examining or editing, the extended editor should be presented. Otherwise, the quick editor should be presented.
With these changes, the act of setting multiple simple alarms will be simpler. I hope you consider this for a future release.
wayn3w
PS. It would be really nice to have an 'all alarms off' button for vacations and holidays.