RE: What bedside clock for a HA-er?

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

I'd thought of that already, since I have a "spare" SLIMP3
floating around =
somewhere, however, I discounted it because despite its undoubted
versatili=
ty as a display device, the user interface for using as an alarm clock
isn'=
t going to be very good...

How will I set the alarm to wake me up at 7AM for example?
How can I press "snooze" to get an extra 10 minutes?

I can imagine the only answer to either of these being via the web
interfac=
e to slimserver, or using the slim remote.. - neither of which comes
anywhe=
re near close to being as user-friendly as an Argos =A39.99 bedside
clock..=
.

That's the sort of thing I'm after though, - so if there was a squeezebox
w=
ith 3 or 4 hard buttons on it, which could be user-assigned, and labeled
on=
the display (like the 2 soft keys on a mobile phone for example), and if t=
here was a built-in function in slimserver for configuring these buttons
& =
the display into an alarm clock, then that would be almost perfect!

Cheers.

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> John B
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:52 PM
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] What bedside clock for a HA-er?
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> Hi Paul,
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> How about a SqueezeBox?
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> When powered off it can show the time, and has the added bonus of
being
> able to play music, or TTS announcements (which is exactly what I use
my
> bedside SliMP3 for!).
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> Totally silent, reliable, small form factor.
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> Of course, the display won't show you a CCTV feed, but it can
certainly
> show you any kind of textual information - including weather station
data=
,
> caller ID, or anything else that your HA system can offer you.
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> And it also has native support for xPL and a third-party plug-in for
xAP
> support, so if you use either of those protocols in your environment
> already, it'll be a breeze to integrate.
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> Regards,
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> John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Paul Gordon
> Sent: 07 November 2006 09:16
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] What bedside clock for a HA-er?
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