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Will the pandara have an alarm on it, settings like on a watch or cellphone?
Gerald1 said:Will the pandara have an alarm on it, settings like on a watch or cellphone?
Dunny said:Gerald1 said:Will the pandara have an alarm on it, settings like on a watch or cellphone?
You can code your own.
D.
Yeah, programming an alarm would be equally difficult to developing an emulator.Paradox said:Dunny said:Gerald1 said:Will the pandara have an alarm on it, settings like on a watch or cellphone?
You can code your own.
D.
thanks maybe we should all code our own emulators aswell
Coding a clock app is extremely simple next to an emulator. I made one in Lua and I'm not a programmer.Paradox said:Dunny said:Gerald1 said:Will the pandara have an alarm on it, settings like on a watch or cellphone?
You can code your own.
D.
thanks maybe we should all code our own emulators aswell
VRAndy said:I think we're forgetting the obvious here.
Of course it's easy to write an alarm clock program. But is it possible for an alarm clock to wake the Pandora out of low-power mode at a pre-determined time? Without that functionality an alarm clock is not very useful.
I suppose that all comes down to what's available to the programmers. Otherwise I have no problem with leaving my unit plugged in and on. Maybe it could have an option to run in low clock speed mode to save power, turn off the screen (or backlight, or both), then return to the previous clock speed and turn on the screen when a button is pressed or the alarm activates.VRAndy said:I think we're forgetting the obvious here.
Of course it's easy to write an alarm clock program. But is it possible for an alarm clock to wake the Pandora out of low-power mode at a pre-determined time? Without that functionality an alarm clock is not very useful.
skeezix said:A true suspend mode means no alarm/wake etc so will often be undesirable.
Low power mode will likely be toggles by a script, run by a little driver app I hope to put together asap. Alarm proggies could call it, or the subtools for backlight/CPU control directly, so piece of cake. Mostly in libpnd already.
Jeff
I guess it doesn't, but since true suspend-to-RAM is a bitch anyway, and the devs are going to focus on a low-power mode, that won't matter. Waking up from low-power mode will just be a matter of cron or something similar calling a wake-up script.fischju2000 said:skeezix said:A true suspend mode means no alarm/wake etc so will often be undesirable.
Low power mode will likely be toggles by a script, run by a little driver app I hope to put together asap. Alarm proggies could call it, or the subtools for backlight/CPU control directly, so piece of cake. Mostly in libpnd already.
Jeff
I believe there has been conflicting information as to whether the Pandora has an RTC capable of waking the system, this is confirmation that it doesn't?
#/bin/bash
timetowake=$1
while true
do
set -a `date`
now=${4%:??}
if [[ $now = $timetowake ]]; then
echo $now
mplayer 'Ring My Bell.avi'
fi
sleep 60
done
Sphinxter said:Code:#/bin/bash timetowake=$1 while true do set -a `date` now=${4%:??} if [[ $now = $timetowake ]]; then echo $now mplayer Ring My Bell.avi fi sleep 60 done
teach a man to fish...
echo "play /home/me/annoying_bell.mp3"| at 18:42
Sphinxter said:Embedded device so I wouldn't assume crond much less atd.
Alec said:Sphinxter said:Embedded device so I wouldn't assume crond much less atd.
Why? 'at' is a standard POSIX application, so it has to work on pretty much any unix-like system.