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Re: FlipClock Beta

I love this app. Well cool. Just did a bit of mixing and have come up with a nice 2 minute tranquil alarm sound. I'll post it here for a day or two in case anyone wants to listen.

http://www.seacurebags.co.uk/firstAlarm3.mp3

Re: FlipClock Beta

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Originally Posted by cardiff-blues (Post 587241)

This looks great. Just what I need and very useful as my current alarm is lit up like a lighthouse even on the lowest led setting.

There's always a light shinning and I have to to the clock face away or set if face down. I'm just going to work on a nice alarm sound to wake up now.

Are you using N900?
With N900, the insomniac mode does not work at this moment.

With regards to sound, it should take MP3 and anything which your decoder bin accepts. Den's right on the "tested" sound thing as you don't want to miss your alarm due to a failure to play :P

Re: FlipClock Beta

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Originally Posted by Spenc3 (Post 587395)

With regards to sound, it should take MP3 and anything which your decoder bin accepts. Den's right on the "tested" sound thing as you don't want to miss your alarm due to a failure to play :P

Could there not be a little audio preview when selecting the sound so you know that it will work?

Yes, I am using the N900.

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Originally Posted by cardiff-blues (Post 587399)

Could there not be a little audio preview when selecting the sound so you know that it will work?

Yes, I am using the N900.

Right now there's no audio preview setup, but you can try to setup the time of the alarm in the next minute to see if it runs.. bottomline, if gstreamer can run it, it will like it..

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Ok my first night of testing the alarm having set it to wake me up. Unfortunately I got up about 30 mins before the alarm kicked in and played around with a couple of the screens for a while.

Still ensured that everything was set for the alarm to start but it didn't. Had previously tested the mp3 and it worked ok. I then set the alarm for a few minutes later and it worked. So am not sure if my browsing around the app caused the problem.

Also noticed on a couple of occasions that I will get a complete red screen just by swiping through the app on occasion. I then have to completely close by ending the process.

What I didn't want to have while using the flipclock at night was my main email notification sounding when an email arrives so I set the N900 to go into Tablet Mode to prevent it connecting to the network. Could there be a setting added to FlipClock that once an alarm is set - that the N900 sets to Tablet Mode as well?

This would save having to remember to do this and preventing you being woken up at 2:00am to your rather loud email notification alert.

This is a great app by the way. It looks cool and has very good functionality. Please keep developing it. Oh, and just noticed the timer function as well. That means I can get rid of another app and just use flipclock. Great stuff! :)

Also noticed that the N900 screen seems to stay on after running flipclock. Does it over-ride the system settings to keep the screen lit up?

Re: FlipClock Beta

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Originally Posted by 白い熊 (Post 564228)

Think so, I'll try to manually convert it to UTF-8 to see if flipclock will read it after that and play the alarm...

Unfortunately, when the xml file is converted to UTF-8 flipclock will not read it properly and doesn't sound the alarm, so still not possible to use UTF-8 filenames.

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Originally Posted by cardiff-blues (Post 587672)

What I didn't want to have while using the flipclock at night was my main email notification sounding when an email arrives so I set the N900 to go into Tablet Mode to prevent it connecting to the network. Could there be a setting added to FlipClock that once an alarm is set - that the N900 sets to Tablet Mode as well?

This would save having to remember to do this and preventing you being woken up at 2:00am to your rather loud email notification alert.

I'm using tweakr (profiles) and alarmed (gui for system alarm) to accomplish this. I have day and night profiles setup in tweakr, and use alarmed to switch profiles at specified times. Works pretty well, you can also schedule to go offline as well.

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Originally Posted by lemmyslender (Post 588207)

I'll check that out. Thanks!

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2nd night of testing and the alarm woke me up. I wasn't used to the tranquil alarm sound that I had mixed for it and to hear these birds and calming wake up music had me wondering what the sound was for a minute.

But it works great. I can treat the N900 like an alarm clock and I like the large clock display that I can keep an eye on when I wake up wondering what the time is.

One thing that seems to go wrong for me is that after I have closed the app. My display settings are messed up as the screen stays lit up and the backlight settings don't seem to work. Even after a reboot these settings keep the screen lit up.

I have to manually go in and change the settings and back again for the screen to dim after my prescribed 30 seconds timeout.

Is there something I can do to prevent having to do this each time?

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Originally Posted by 白い熊 (Post 588168)

Unfortunately, when the xml file is converted to UTF-8 flipclock will not read it properly and doesn't sound the alarm, so still not possible to use UTF-8 filenames.

That's worth taking a look at.. I'll put it in the feature request list.