chris_c
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I can now cause a switched off Pandora to wake up on a specified time (wake on alarm) YaY! woot! etc etc
I had to make some trivial changes to the kernel for it to work - I've done this in a naive way and it will need some thought as to the best way to deal with it - but that can sit on the back burner for the time being... (at least the proof of concept works!)
What I'm interested to hear is what people would think would be best from an alarm daemon.
What I envision is that a simple daemon (possibly using sqlite) would hold a list of hardware dates and times that it needs to
run a script for. (different script for each alarm if needed)
Alternatively I could press cron into service, and on shut down set the hardware wake on alarm for the nearest alarm
The work flow I'm looking for is that the Pandora would wake itself up (and assuming here you don't auto login to X)
would as soon as possible start sounding an alarm before X comes up
(possibly customised for no alarm but if its in your pocket how you gonna know!)
the alarm would continue even while you login....
Once logged in a dialogue would let you shut it up! also the agenda application should appear showing the appointment you were being reminded of.
Which leads to a problem, I'd need to modify an existing agenda app to work with the Pandoras wake on alarm, either that or spin one up
with pygtk or something similar...
I don't really fancy some bloated framework like evolution, and ideally I'd like to have something small enough to fit on nand
(although for myself I always boot from SD - leaving nand for testing...)
So what do peeps think - its worth really thinking about now as I know its absolutely possible to switch the Pandora on with an alarm
For me personally having my agenda on my Pandora means we have an excuse never to be parted (yes I'm a sad geek!) kind of a killer app
I had to make some trivial changes to the kernel for it to work - I've done this in a naive way and it will need some thought as to the best way to deal with it - but that can sit on the back burner for the time being... (at least the proof of concept works!)
What I'm interested to hear is what people would think would be best from an alarm daemon.
What I envision is that a simple daemon (possibly using sqlite) would hold a list of hardware dates and times that it needs to
run a script for. (different script for each alarm if needed)
Alternatively I could press cron into service, and on shut down set the hardware wake on alarm for the nearest alarm
The work flow I'm looking for is that the Pandora would wake itself up (and assuming here you don't auto login to X)
would as soon as possible start sounding an alarm before X comes up
(possibly customised for no alarm but if its in your pocket how you gonna know!)
the alarm would continue even while you login....
Once logged in a dialogue would let you shut it up! also the agenda application should appear showing the appointment you were being reminded of.
Which leads to a problem, I'd need to modify an existing agenda app to work with the Pandoras wake on alarm, either that or spin one up
with pygtk or something similar...
I don't really fancy some bloated framework like evolution, and ideally I'd like to have something small enough to fit on nand
(although for myself I always boot from SD - leaving nand for testing...)
So what do peeps think - its worth really thinking about now as I know its absolutely possible to switch the Pandora on with an alarm
For me personally having my agenda on my Pandora means we have an excuse never to be parted (yes I'm a sad geek!) kind of a killer app
