Bugzilla – Bug 17054
Second alarm turns Radio off / silent
Last modified: 2011-08-14 12:43:17 UTC
Version: 7.5.3 - r31792 Squeezebox Radio Firmware: 7.5.3-r9283 Normal conditions Alarm 1 set for 6:45am Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri. Repeats. Alarm sound is radio station saved as favourite. Alarm 1 functions correctly. Change of conditions Set Alarm 2 for earlier time (in my case 6:15am) for same day as existing alarm. Non-repeat. Alarm sound is same radio station as Alarm 1. Alarm 2 functions correctly at 6:15am. At 6:45am, Alarm 1 would normally turn on. However as Alarm 2 has already turned Radio on, Alarm 1 turns Radio off. This is not expected behaviour, Alarm 2 should continue or Alarm 1 take over. Note that if Radio is turned on manually before Alarm 1, rather than by setting an Alarm 2, then Radio will stay on when Alarm 1 time is reached. The alarm setting is to fade in and you can hear this happen so Alarm 1 is definitely occuring. It appears to only be when an earlier alarm has switched Radio on, that later alarm switches it off.
I tried to recreate this scenario in the original comment. What I got was the first alarm (one time alarm) played okay. Then when allowed to continue to play, when the second alarm came on it came on with the fallback alarm.
Squeezebox Radio 7.6.0 r9458 Alarm 1 6:45am, all days, Sound:Favorites:AVRO Baroque Alarm 2 6:56am, all days, Sound:Favorites:CBC Victoria BC Alarm 1 always plays at 6:45am. At 6:56am Alarm 1 often disappears and the radio is silent, no alarm window is displayed. Sometimes (very rarely) Alarm 2 will come on at 6:56, display its alarm window and play properly. I can not duplicate this behaviour at other times of the day; i.e. with the same alarms set for 8:45am 8:56am the second alarm works properly. Prior to 7.6.0 there used to be a problem with the fallback alarm triggering too easily especially during the 6:40am to 7:00am window. I haven't had the fallback alarm problem since 7.6.0 installed.
Squeezebox Radio 7.6.0 r9458 I duplicated the problem: 10:45am The first alarm triggered, showed its alarm window, and played the radio station selected as the alarm sound. 10:46am The second alarm triggered and showed its alarm window for less than 1 second, the display then showed information about the radio station selected for the second alarm sound, but the radio was silent. 10:47am Pressing the "play" button plays this radio station I got the same sequence with alarms set 10:52 and 10:54, 10:57 and 10:58. The second alarm is silent.