Bugzilla – Bug 16312
The alarm window shows a far too small clock
Last modified: 2011-05-16 10:35:41 UTC
Preconditions: - Squeezebox Radio with Formware 7.5.1 r8837 - Squeezebox radio connected through LAN and DSL to www.mysqueezebox.com server - Current radio station ist "Bayern 3" in Munich/Germany Use case: 1. Create a new alarm (set it to play the last station) 2. Push power button 3. At alarm time, the SB radio wakes up and shows the alarm window and plays the last station (so far so good) 4. However, the clock in the alarm windows is so small that you cannot read it from the bed that is only 1m away from the radio! Therefore you never know, when you have to get up because you don't know how late it is. --> Request would be to increase the size of the clock in the alarm window at least by 4 times! Even better would be, if you can configure the alarm window so that you can choose between different alarm windows with different infos that are displayed and also different font sizes. To be honest: With the current font size of the clock, the radio is useless for me as an alarm clock!
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Note to Logitech: ================ When implementing this, a solution might be to instead implement bug #14970 which will make it possible for third party developers to customize the alarm popup window. Note to everyone else: ===================== If you can live with no graphical menu to turn off alarms and it's acceptable to rely on just using buttons on the Radio. You can do as follows already today: 1. Install "Patch Installer" applet through "Settings/Advanced/Applet Installer" menu 2. Install "Custom alarm window" patch through "Settings/Advanced/Patch Installer" menu 3. Install "Custom Clock" applet through "Settings/Advanced/Applet Installer" 4. Goto "Setting/Screen/Screensavers/Custom Clock Settings/When alarm" and select the clock screen saver you like to show when the alarm is activated
(In reply to comment #2) > Note to Logitech: > ================ > When implementing this, a solution might be to instead implement bug #14970 > which will make it possible for third party developers to customize the alarm > popup window. > Note to everyone else: > ===================== > If you can live with no graphical menu to turn off alarms and it's acceptable > to rely on just using buttons on the Radio. You can do as follows already > today: > 1. Install "Patch Installer" applet through "Settings/Advanced/Applet > Installer" menu > 2. Install "Custom alarm window" patch through "Settings/Advanced/Patch > Installer" menu > 3. Install "Custom Clock" applet through "Settings/Advanced/Applet Installer" > 4. Goto "Setting/Screen/Screensavers/Custom Clock Settings/When alarm" and > select the clock screen saver you like to show when the alarm is activated This looks like an acceptable workaround, until is is fixed by Logitech. But, will this allow me to snooze?
Created attachment 7089 [details] significant tweaks to alarm font size on Radio, Controller, Touch -Remove title treatment that says "Alarm" at the top of the window. -Remove alarm icon from layout of all alarm popup windows to leave max space for current time -Suppress display of am/pm for those on 12h format to leave max space for current time -Increase font in Radio for alarm time from 32point to 92point -Increase font in Controller for alarm time from 32point to 92point -Increase font in Touch for alarm time from 62point to 120point, touch skin -Increase font in Touch for alarm time from 62point to 82point, remote skin FYI, I'll probably check this into 7.6 tomorrow.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #9298 to the jive repo by bklaas == == http://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=9298 == Fixed Bug: 16312 Description: increase font size of the current time in alarm popup on all skins Remove am/pm designation when in 12h mode to maximize space for clock digits Remove alarm icon to maximize space for clock digits Remove title "Alarm" from window, since the intention of the window is obvious when the alarm is firing Add ability to send a strftime format as an optional argument to the datetime:getCurrentTime() method
@Ben Klaas: Will this patch work on the current stable 7.5.3 release?
Created attachment 7094 [details] files to patch 7.5.3 radio firmware USE AT YOUR OWN RISK unzip the files, and scp them to the following locations: datetime.lua --> /usr/share/jive/jive/utils/datetime.lua QVGAbaseSkinApplet.lua --> /usr/share/jive/applets/QVGAbaseSkin/QVGAbaseSkinApplet.lua AlarmSnoozeApplet.lua --> /usr/share/jive/applets/AlarmSnooze/AlarmSnoozeApplet.lua then reboot
Dear Ben, I reported this bug and I am really happy that you finally improved this behavior! Tested your patch with 7.5.3 and it works wonderful!!! Exactly as I was always hoping it would be. Thank you very much.
Alarm TIme is more visible now when the alarm sounds on Radio 7.6.0.32419