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

[shapeshifter]

Hi there.

I wrote a small App that acts as a GUI front-end and CLI-wrapper to maemos alarmd scheduler back-end. It's written in python and uses the PySide bindings to Qt.

Feature list:

• Set all of the below to be executed at specific intervals (every minute, hourly, on specific weekdays, on last day of month etc...):
  • Recurring alarms
  • Reset the GPRS data counter
  • Switch to online/offline mode
  • Switch the profile to silent/general or any ProfilesX profile
  • Switch bluetooth on/off
  • Execute a custom command
  • More 'cron-like' stuff like this
• Saving presets for comman line executions
• Enabling and disabling events
• Complete CLI-Interface
• Support for Cron syntax like "23,26 */3 1,2 * *"
• Support for date syntax like "now + 10 minutes"

Notes:

• Support for ProfilesX dropped in favour of Tweakr profiles
• If it should happen that you create an event and for some reason it gets lost from Alarmed's menu/list, but still exists and acts, look in /var/cache/alarmd/alarm_queue.ini and you'll find your event somewhere at the bottom. It comes with a "cookie", which identifies it. For example: "cookie: 886". You can then use the CLI interface to delete the event. It will tell you it doesn't exist, but it will nevertheless delete the backend-event:
  

  /opt/alarmed/alarmed.py -CD 886

  Don't mess with the alarm_queue.ini, you might do serious damage!

Allright, if you have read all this, you may install the App from extras-devel

Here are some screenshots:











Changelog:
0.1.4-2:

• Added flight mode enable/disable (thanks to rlinfati)
• Fixed a bug in gprsdataresetter.py (thanks to rooted)
• Slightly less frequently crashing due to some workarounds. Is stable at times, but still crashes at random due to pyside bugs.

0.1.4-3:

• _Much_ more stable due to more workarounds (thanks avoozl on #pyside). Couldn't get it to segfault even once anymore!

0.1.4-4:

• Fixed missing python-alarm dependency (thanks to hcm)

0.1.5-2:

• Temporarly removed dbus from menu as it's not working anyway
• Made it possible to put real commands with arguments and everything into the command exec line!
• Added profile switching for silent and general profiles

0.1.6-2:

• Added support for switching tweakr profiles!
• A few small bug fixes
• Switch to .sh files for small scripts

0.1.6-3:

• Small fix in tweakr profile switching

0.1.7-1:

• Added relative event settings ("tommorow", "next tuesday...", "in x seconds/minutes/hours/days")
• Small bugfix in tweakr profile switching

0.1.7-3:

• Small bug fixes

0.1.8-1:

• Massive restructuring of code
• Complete CLI interface added (see /opt/alarmed/alarmed.py -Ch for help)
• Added support for cron-like strings, e.g. "23,26 * 1,2 * *"
• Added support for date-like strings, if you have coreutils installed, e.g. "now + 10 minutes"
• Minor bug fixes, probably introduced a couple of new ones.

0.1.8-2/3:

• small fixes and fix for people not having bash installed (thanks evad)

0.1.9-1/2:

• Cleaned up dependencies, no more boost! Pyside ftw.
• Added bluetooth switch
• Added saving/loading presets when using command line execution!

0.1.9-3/4:

• GPRS counter reset fixed, resets both home and roaming at the same time.

0.1.9-5:

• Switched around alarm buttons and added info message to alarm dialog.

0.1.9-6:

• Improved list layout (no more sideways scrolling)

0.2.0-1:

• You can now toggle (enable and disable) events!

0.2.1-1

• Fixed a small bug that prevented events from being saved.
  Also incorporated patches by hunludvig and ForeverYoung:
• UTF-8 for text
• Removed tweakr support, instead added support for ProfilesX
• Alarm buttons fixed
• Fixed bug where deleted item remains in list
• Improved cron syntax
  Thanks a lot for the contrubution!

0.3.0-1

• New: Switching to a specific network (as requested by rotoflex)
• New: Builtin functions: Switch to 2G, 3G or Dual Mode
• Fixed: Scheduling for 'Next...' now works (as reported by Deserve)

[rooted]

Bug in gprsdataresetter.py: Type of gprs_reset_time key is string, so the proper command line input is:

gconftool-2 -s /system/osso/connectivity/network_type/GPRS/gprs_reset_time --type=string $(date +%s)

Stumbled upon it by chance. Was looking for command line option to reset GPRS counter (to use it with fcron), found it here! Thanks.

[Bingley Joe]

Thanks! This will be incredibly useful once you've got it stable..

[rlinfati]

Please, add a option to go offline ( fligth mode ) and go online ( normal mode ), thanks

cortex:/home/opt/alarmed# cat go-online.sh
#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=com.nokia.mce --type=method_call /com/nokia/mce/request com.nokia.mce.request.req_device_mode_change string:"normal"

cortex:/home/opt/alarmed# cat go-offline.sh
#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=com.nokia.mce --type=method_call /com/nokia/mce/request com.nokia.mce.request.req_device_mode_change string:"offline"

[x-lette]

Do I get it right this is a kind of crond with gui? That would be fantastic! But still I'm waiting for it getting more stable as I really depend on a working device

[shapeshifter]

new version! see first post for updates.

Originally Posted by rooted

the proper command line input is:
gconftool-2 -s /system/osso/connectivity/network_type/GPRS/gprs_reset_time --type=string $(date +%s)
Stumbled upon it by chance.

Thanks for this one! Fixed in 0.1.4-2.

Originally Posted by rlinfati

Please, add a option to go offline ( fligth mode ) and go online ( normal mode ), thanks

Added in 0.1.4-2 as a built-in function, thanks for supplying the scripts!

Originally Posted by x-lette

Do I get it right this is a kind of crond with gui?

Yep that's pretty much what it is, though the actual daemon (alarmd) is shipped with the n900 already. I just wrote a GUI for it.

[hcm]

thank you very much, exactly what I was looking for

I think the package should depend on python-alarm, it was not installed automatically in my case…

[Corwin]

Thanks a lot for your work, very much appreciated.
Unfortunately it will not come up when I try to start it - nothing happens.

[hcm]

@corwin: have a look at my post above, install python-alarm (apt-get install python-alarm as root)

[shiny]

Originally Posted by Corwin

Thanks a lot for your work, very much appreciated.
Unfortunately it will not come up when I try to start it - nothing happens.

I found that the python-alarm package was missing and had to install it manually. Could this be a dependency issue that needs fixing?