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Re: Maemo beeper

Quote:

Originally Posted by Den in USA (Post 308306)

Yes, Eggtimer can do 1 minute time-outs. Just slide the “minutes” center bar all the way down.

You´re right, Den... But I don´t want that pop up window saying that time ran out... I just a need a beep or two, without any intervention of mine (like hitting the Close button).

Re: Maemo beeper

Oh, one more thing guys. I am also looking for a friendly interface for this one, since I am not the one who´s going to use it. Something easy like pocket doan (they call it a "meditation timer") - http://www.freewarepalm.com/clock/pocketdoan.shtml
I do have garnet vm, but I would love to have something similar for maemo...

Re: Maemo beeper

maybe someone could get this back in working order?
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maetronome/

Re: Maemo beeper

Kandis (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/kandis/) also does "noise" after some configurable amount of time.

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yes, but neither kandis norr eggtimer do automaatic repeats without human intervention...

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yep, and I don´t want it. TBH it is a little bit stupid, because if I want it to repeat, it means that I don´t wanna do any intervention. Just beep it every minute! :)

Re: Maemo beeper

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Originally Posted by tso (Post 308432)

maybe someone could get this back in working order?
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maetronome/

If one recompiles OS2008's ESD, and LD_PRELOADs the esddsp from there, GTick runs. But the GTick package is horribly done (sorry, but it has to be said and if it worked (see below) I would waste a couple of hours fixing it) and pressing "Start" works fine. Pressing "Stop", on the other hand, does not work and causes GTick to lock up and for you to hear the tick for as long as the program is running (and, like I already said, it locks up :)). It's also not hildonized (I would be willing to do the basic if it worked).

Re: Maemo beeper

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Originally Posted by RevenanT (Post 308258)

Hello guys!

I´m looking for an application that beeps after a given time, continuously. Let´s say that I need a beep every 1 minute, for 30 minutes. Is there anything like that?

Go to http://www.epochconverter.com/ and get the epoch time that you want it to start at.

Then type:

Code:

  apt-get install alarmtool && \

    alarmtool -a -boot --recurr 1 --recurr-count 30 \

    --time 1250625000

That will sound the alarm every min, 30 times, starting at epoch time 1250625000.

If you want it to do that forever, type:

Code:

  alarmtool -a -boot --recurr 1 --recurr-count -1 \

    --time 1250625000

To stop it, type:

Code:

alarmtool -r 1250625000

It's important to remember the epoch time, because it becomes the "cookie" that's associated with the event.

There is no way to find out the cookie after you schedule the event because of this bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4935

And it would be resilient to power offs, so it could be a nasty trick to play on a fellow tablet user.

Re: Maemo beeper

@jgombos

Maybe it is listed in: /var/lib/alarmd/alarm_queue.xml

Re: Maemo beeper

That's pretty useful qwerty12. I had a huge number of events, many of which used the same cookie. I tried this command to clear them out gracefully:

sed -ne 's/[^>]*cookie[^>]*>$[[:digit:]]*$<.*/\1/pg' \
/var/lib/alarmd/alarm_queue.xml | sort | uniq | \
while read i; do alarmtool -r $i; done

But the /var/lib/alarmd/alarm_queue.xml file was not empty. Clearly alarmtool has issues.