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#219925 - 03/05/2001 13:25 Alarm clock
schmoelz
stranger

Registered: 01/05/2001
Posts: 10
Loc: Innsbruck, AUSTRIA
Is there an RTC chip in the Receiver so it would be possible to display the time, and additionally use it as an alarm clock ;-)


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#219926 - 04/05/2001 06:52 Re: Alarm clock [Re: schmoelz]
mtempsch
pooh-bah

Registered: 02/06/2000
Posts: 1996
Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden
Don't know, but if not, couldn't it query the server software for
the current time every once in a while?

/Michael


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#219927 - 06/05/2001 11:39 Re: Alarm clock [Re: mtempsch]
fvgestel
old hand

Registered: 12/08/2000
Posts: 702
Loc: Netherlands
Don't know, but if not, couldn't it query the server software for the current time every once in a while?
which could give you an atomic clock if the serving computer is synchronized with some internet time-server...

Frank van Gestel
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#219928 - 07/05/2001 01:10 Re: Alarm clock [Re: fvgestel]
phaigh
addict

Registered: 04/11/1999
Posts: 649
Loc: Reading, UK
It would be cool if we could write something to use NTP as well from the Rio - so that you don't need to modify the server software (which is impossible, since it's not open source).

Now that and an internet time server would be coool.

Paul.

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RioReceiver - Still Waiting for one in the UK.

Edited by phaigh on 07/05/01 09:11 AM.

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#219929 - 07/05/2001 09:57 Re: Alarm clock [Re: phaigh]
altman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
The box knows the time; it's in all the http responses. The server can easily be NTP synced.

An alarm clock is on the wishlist, but with provisos: there's no RTC, so it needs a server connection (also needs one to be able to play some noise, though it could make beeps I suppose). If the input power goes off/on, the unit will not start the CPU until you press the power button - so it would miss alarms in this circumstance.

Hugo



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