Bugzilla – Bug 9569
Player should turn off when alarm times out
Last modified: 2009-12-21 14:25:55 UTC
The alarm currently executes a stop when the timeout period is reached. It should probably do a power off instead. This means the Boom in particular will generally go back to displaying the time, and also should save power.
Sounds like a good idea...do you think you can work it into 7.3?
How about 'sleep at end of alarm' just like the sleep at end of song?
Andy points out that if the player is already on when the alarm goes on, it should maintain the previous state.
Max, what help do you need to address this issue?
What are the timescales for 7.3, please?
If the device was on it should stay on, if it was off it should go back off, no? 7.3 should be finished off by the end of next week... You good with this, Max?
Didn't realise it was so soon! I don't think I've got enough free time to look at this, I'm afraid. This probably applies to all 7.3 bugs currently assigned to me. My bad! I'll do what I can, but I doubt I'll even be able to go through the bugs until Sunday at the earliest.
No worries, Max. We're happy you've spent so much time on the alarm code already. The concensus is this is not required for the 7.3 release.
*** Bug 12014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving to 8.0
This should also allow an SB3 (etc.) to power down external amplifiers that are controlled by the IR port (by sending an IR "OFF" command to the external device).
I was about to file a “bug report” / feature request for this one, but I found this bug report. I guess my request can go in here. Here goes: I use an SB3 in the bedroom and I have the PowerSwitch plugin installed. In the morning when the alarm goes off, my SB3 switches on my amplifier automatically. Works great. I now would like a setting where the SB3 can switch itself off after a defined period. Currently, there is the “Alarm Timeout (in minutes)” parameter that tells the alarm how long to play. That works, but it leaves my amplifier on. I would like here to have the possibility to set the time for “power off player”. Maybe you could have a drop down box where you select the desired function (Alarm Timeout or Power down Player). Then use the slider to set the amount of time (as it currently is). Like this, users could select there preferred method – using the timeout or to switch off the player – after a defined time. I noticed that this bug report has been filled in September 2008. Is this still current?
Probably worth merging the "alarm completion" type bugs so that the definition can be created as to what features should be supported. I'm happy to help with a patch, but I'm long past doing that work only to have it reversed and redefined ad finitum. We third party contributors deserve better. The users also deserve to have it defined as well.
Hey guys at slimdevices/logitech, you can't be serious that this tiny fix already requested in 2008 is still open and not incorporated into the current release. I mean this is a standard feature of my china-clock that it turns itself off after 60min of alarm... So please, get this fixed! Cheers, Axel.
== Auto-comment from SVN commit #29665 to the slim repo by bklaas == == https://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?view=revision&revision=29665 == Fixed Bug: 12760 Fixed Bug: 9569 Desription: Patch from KDF (better late than never). Grab power condition before alarm so we can return later on a timeout.