ffalarms 0.2.1 and atd-over-fso (now works on SHR-testing)

[Steven **]

A well written app that works quite well under latest SHR-testing
(installed via opkg directly from SHR feeds).

One area I think needs improvement ASAP:  my Freerunner suspends (thus
silencing the alarm) before the alarm gets loud enough to really wake
me up.  SHR goes back to suspended after about 1 minute even if
ffalarms is playing the alarm. There are two things that would help
this:
1. Make the loudness increase by more with each step. Ideally this
would be configurable.
2. Make ffalarms prevent suspend for a time, maybe 5 minutes.  (Note
that it would be REALLY bad to prevent suspend indefinitely, as I
might forget I set an alarm and walk away from the phone, only to come
back hours later to an empty battery)

Overall, it looks very good.  I'll give it a test tonight/tomorrow morning.  ;-)

-Steven

2009/3/27 Łukasz Pankowski <lukpank at o2.pl>:
> Hello
>
> I am the author of Finger friendly alarms [1].  Which I developed for
> Om 2008.12 up to version 0.2.
>
> I am happy to announce version 0.2.1 of ffalarms which adds support
> for SHR (tested on SHR testing) -- for this I ported atd to work on
> top of FSO Framework Time API (called atd-over-fso available from
> ffalarms download page [2]).  Version 0.2 also fixes Daylight Saving
> Time problem and adds several minor improvements, see [3] for
> installation instructions and detailed changes and [2] for downloads.
>
> Please report any problems or possible improvements (those may take
> long time to come :)).
>
> [1] http://ffalarms.projects.openmoko.org/
> [2] http://projects.openmoko.org/frs/?group_id=260
> [3] http://projects.openmoko.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=488
>
> _______________________________________________
> Openmoko community mailing list
> community at lists.openmoko.org
> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
>