[Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)

[slipkornsaad]

I updated to 0.1.8-2 it starts fine now but when i choose new event (switch profile) it doesn't give me the ability to choose the profile when i click on the icon !

[x-lette]

Can anyone help me in setting up an command line to go online? I'd like to open an internet connection (via gprs/umts, not WLAN) every hour using alarmed. Disconnection goes automatically with autodisconnect but I'm looking for a script to open the connection. All my widgets are configured to fetch data when already online and I don't want to reconfigure one of them but would like to have a single place where to control the connection.

[dsawhney]

Originally Posted by x-lette

Can anyone help me in setting up an command line to go online? I'd like to open an internet connection (via gprs/umts, not WLAN) every hour using alarmed. Disconnection goes automatically with autodisconnect but I'm looking for a script to open the connection. All my widgets are configured to fetch data when already online and I don't want to reconfigure one of them but would like to have a single place where to control the connection.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Phone_control#...ved_connection

[x-lette]

Originally Posted by dsawhney

http://wiki.maemo.org/Phone_control#...ved_connection

Thnaks for this hint! I already looked at the very useful scripts of the DCE-Widget Wiki but there was no such command listed.

[jamesf1985]

hi can someone please help me set up a command line to reset my gprs counter on the 4th of every month. as the app doesn't seem todo it for me. Im kinda new to all this so please keep it simple lol

thanks in advance

[ndi]

Set an event

* Built-in function (bottom lets you select reset counter)
* Set "Once a month)
* Set 4th

Good to go, in theory.

[DaSilva]

Would it be possible to add native support for Erminig-NG? Would be easier then the new command line support...

[jcompagner]

Originally Posted by DaSilva

Would it be possible to add native support for Erminig-NG? Would be easier then the new command line support...

lookup a few messages in this forum post.
This is already discussed quite a bit.

I agree it would be nice to have some integration. Which way it doesnt matter to me
for example Erminig could also push things to alarmed so that we could show them there
or a Alarmed "plugin" could query Erminig (erminig -l) and then show that result and give options to sync those calendars with erminig --sync-profile=id

but for now it works fine through the execute command

[lemmyslender]

Originally Posted by DaSilva

Would it be possible to add native support for Erminig-NG? Would be easier then the new command line support...

It's really pretty easy. Just select command execution, in the command line put:

erminig --sync-all

or

erminig --sync-profile=1,2,3,etc

profiles # can be found by running
erminig -l
from xterm (as user, not root)

[evad]

Installed alarmed 0.1.8-2 yesterday with great excitement to finally have tweakr profiles automatically switched, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, similarly to user skalogre couple of pages back in this thread. Here's my alarm_queue.ini:

[#00000b54]
cookie: 2900
trigger: 1269844500
flags: 131072
alarm_appid: Rano
alarm_time: 1269562202
alarm_tm.tm_year: -1
alarm_tm.tm_mon: -1
alarm_tm.tm_mday: -1
alarm_tm.tm_hour: -1
alarm_tm.tm_min: -1
alarm_tm.tm_wday: -1
alarm_tm.tm_yday: -1
alarm_tm.tm_isdst: -1
recur_count: -1
action_cnt: 1
recurrence_cnt: 1
action0.flags: 36
action0.exec_command: /opt/alarmed/tweakrprofileswitcher.sh Dyskretny
recurrence_tab0.mask_min: 34359738368
recurrence_tab0.mask_hour: 128
recurrence_tab0.mask_wday: 62
recurrence_tab0.mask_mon: 4095

However, when I manually execute tweakrprofileswitcher.sh via terminal, I get profile changed:

user@n900:/var/cache/alarmd$ sh /opt/alarmed/tweakrprofileswitcher.sh Dyskretny
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.511 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.512 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.513 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.514 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.515 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.516 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.517 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.518 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.519 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.520 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.521 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.522 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.523 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.524 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.525 reply_serial=2
   boolean true
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.526 reply_serial=2
   boolean true

Note sh in the beginning of command - without that it won't work - perhaps that's the missing part in alarm_queue.ini?

Another thing I wanted use alarmed for is hourly synchronisation using SyncEvolution client. SyncEvolution client itself allows to set daily sync schedule, which works OK and it does create following entry in alarm_queue.ini:

[#00000ade]
cookie: 2782
trigger: 1269625800
title: Synchronization with goosync
flags: 131072
alarm_appid: syncevolution
alarm_time: 1269247710
alarm_tm.tm_year: -1
alarm_tm.tm_mon: -1
alarm_tm.tm_mday: -1
alarm_tm.tm_hour: -1
alarm_tm.tm_min: -1
alarm_tm.tm_wday: -1
alarm_tm.tm_yday: -1
alarm_tm.tm_isdst: -1
recur_count: -1
action_cnt: 1
recurrence_cnt: 1
action0.flags: 2084
action0.exec_command: /opt/syncevolution/sync.py --quiet goosync
recurrence_tab0.mask_min: 1125899906842624
recurrence_tab0.mask_hour: 131072

So following that lead, I've created "custom command" entry in alarmed, typing /opt/syncevolution/sync.py --quiet goosync as that command. Again - it doesn't seem to work either at specified time. :( Here's alarm_queue.ini entry created by alarmed:

[#00000b6f]
cookie: 2927
trigger: 1269600600
flags: 131072
alarm_appid: GooSync
alarm_time: 1269597000
alarm_tm.tm_year: -1
alarm_tm.tm_mon: -1
alarm_tm.tm_mday: -1
alarm_tm.tm_hour: -1
alarm_tm.tm_min: -1
alarm_tm.tm_wday: -1
alarm_tm.tm_yday: -1
alarm_tm.tm_isdst: -1
recur_count: -1
action_cnt: 1
recurrence_cnt: 1
action0.flags: 36
action0.exec_command: /bin/ash -c '/opt/syncevolution/sync.py --quiet goosync'
recurrence_tab0.mask_min: 1125899906842624
recurrence_tab0.mask_hour: 16777215

However, when I run /bin/ash -c '/opt/syncevolution/sync.py --quiet goosync' manually as user in terminal - it works OK.

All in all, alarmed has an excellent potential to become one of my favourite killer-apps, if it only worked as it should. :) All suggestions welcome, as I'm striving to get both automated profiles and sync finally set on my N900.