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[moB]

Here's the wakeAlarm-0.04--this is an improved alarm clock.

The alarm trains the user to wake to a set of ringtones in a loop.
It works reliably at a lower volume than other musical alarms.

User can accept defaults or select own ringtones and timing.

After the alarm goes off there is an option to play MRLs (music, video...) so it's a lot like a regular alarm crossed with a multimedia alarm.

Simple to use. One job, one program, uses features pre-installed in OS.

Compare ohers:
-http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10580
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-http://www.google.ca/search?q=alarm+clock+site%3Amurga-linux.com


Runs from Pschedule. As written uses xine, but can be edited to use any media player, really.
I prefer xmms2, but perhaps you like pmusic?

It also depends on gtkdialog3 for the push-button control. This is pre-installed on most Puppies.

To make it ready for other players download the tgz, extract, and edit.

To install and use as-is get the pet package.


Please note, one should not have spaces in path or filenames. You can work around the limitation, but as many Puppy scripts, it is not built to handle this.

This program has been around in one or an other version since 1994/5 under msWin3.11
The original samples are still here, though as ogg not wav files.

I originally wrote this for my late wife. [Always my love, always her lover.]


Give it a spin around the block. I'm sure you'll love it.


moB


"How now," he soliloquized at last,
withdrawing the tube, "this smoking no
longer soothes. Oh, my pipe! hard must
it go with me if thy charm be gone!

--H. Melville, Moby Dick.

[moB]

A few notes may be useful.


1. Files included:

~/wakeAlarm-0.04.tips....................[Small help]


~/.wakeAlarm/alarm.pls
~/.wakeAlarm/chimes.ogg
~/.wakeAlarm/whistle.ogg


~/ringtones/ahoo.ogg
~/ringtones/bluesbros.ogg ...........[Peter Gunn theme]
~/ringtones/enigma.ogg
~/ringtones/goodmo1.ogg
~/ringtones/ysolid.ogg


~/my-applications/bin/wakeAlarm



2. You can safely remove the ringtones directory and point the alarm.pls to another set of ringtones.

If using the (prefered) frugal install for Puppy move the ringtones outside your personal savefile to your actual harddrive.



3. To access folders or directory with sp aces in name &/or path (fullpath) try symlinks. Put links to data in ringtones directory, is likely tidiest.

In terminal in /root/ringtones/:

[moB]

The default media stream may be outdated/expired.

It's a link through Icecast directory: http://dir.xiph.org/listen/23883535/listen.m3u
which points to Dream Factory: http://radio.hbr1.com:19800/ambient.ogg

You can replace the old line near the top of wakeAlarm like this:

[moB]

Some users reported a strange effect with Pschedule and wakeAlarm.

The alarm script was loaded in multiple copies.

This is easily avoided. If you have this problem change your Pschedule task from the simple:

[moB]

[moB]

[nooby]

Very naive question. I have never used pschedule.

So one tell it to wake up a certain time and then shut the computer down and it boots the same OS as one made the scedule in?????

How does it know what OS it was using when it got scheduled?

Would it not boot the OS that is first in the chain of boot order something?

Or is the computer suppose to be on the whole night?

[moB]

Updated to fix all known bugs.

Can customize playlist in ringtones directory properly now.
Remember, they play by alphabetical order, so name your ringtones with numbers at start of names to control sequence.

New xine can find files

Let me know if there are any new bugs!

https://sites.google.com/site/ieincp/home/all

[moB]

[moB]

Let me explain what wakeAlarm does.

1. Looks to see that no other windows called wakeAlarm are running.
This is to prevent crond from loading multiple copies of the alarm.

2. Checks to see whether user has speciifed an MRL.
If not specified it uses the builtin music stream. This allows user to choose music or video to be played after alarm is turned off.
For example, one can enjoy the morning business report or weather, music, CD, DVD, local or remote, at one's discretion.
The option is presented to the user as an alternative to simply shutting wakeAlarm off.

3. Builds a playlist from the ringtones directory.
New list is built at each runtime making it easy to change the ringtones to suit user preference.
The idea is to use a familiar sequence of sounds to signal one from sleep. Usually I awake before hand and listen for a minute.
When I don't wake in advance a familiar sequence rouses me easily and painlessly.

Default ringtones include short low-quality samples from Enigma, Yello's 1980 "Solid Pleasure", Blues Bros. doing "Theme from Peter Gunn", Toto, Simpsons opening from "Bart's bad day", classic cartoon laugh, & Star Trek's whistle ( just before "Star date...").
Some users have changed the ringtones to bird recordings, for example.

4. Plays the ringtones loop in xine fullscreen.
Delay can be set from within the script to allow for longer or shorter ringtones and control the gap between.

5. Loads a simple GTK interface to shut down or play MRL in new xine instance.
If shutdown's selected chimes are played. It might sound familiar to some of us

For my setup this does not use much power as the hard drives and CPU are shut down by power management.
All that is really running is the power supply and RTC (internal clock -- like a watch circuit, really).
For those on battery there is no power supply eating juce either.

Most of the package download size is samples. Comes in at around 450 KB. Takes seconds to download.
These can be replaced by symlinks to external data to save space in ones personal savefile, if one prefers.

It comes in pet and targz formats to make it easy to edit or use with other GNU/linux systems.

moB

Semper sursum.


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Aside:

nooby mentioned default startup path. Usually this will lead the user to msWin.
Easily may be altered by setting "default=" enrty in boot.ini to c:\grub instead of DISC0,PARTITION0... or whatever it says.
I put an entry in menu.lst leading back to ntldr (boot.ini) in case someone intended to run it.

One could make the default setup a loop so no OS loads without user intervention.
Of course mine simply loads GNU/linux by default.

Edited for a tyop, er, typo