Re: What bedside clock for a HA-er?

[Kim Wall <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Gordon wrote:
> Now that I have more or less expunged X10 from my home, I no longer
need
> the X10 mini-timer as my bedside clock, so I'm looking for a
"suitable"
> replacement..

Old laptop?

We've got a PII laptop by the bed with a 512meg CF card in place of a HD
so that it runs totally silently (unless made to do something CPU
intensive, which practically never happens).  We mostly use it for an
IRC client on one of the virtual consoles (what HA we have has an IRC
bot interface), the odd ssh session to check email, and Firefox in X for
those late-night random conversations that can only be resolved by a
quick check of googlepedia.

The laptop doesn't actually do alarm clock duty itself (we already had
the vibrating alarm clock from hell in a slightly more accessible
place), but there's no reason why it couldn't.  I used 'at' and 'mpg123'
as an alarm clock for a while when I was at university, and I expect
there are alarm clock plugins for popular media players.


Kim.


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