Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Under diablo I've just installed the cron.tar.gz package which works great! I then installed aumix-gtk from the elkins repo, which doesn't work so well. While 'aumix -w 0' run as root doesn't give any errors it also doesn't mute the IT's output. Can anyone confirm that this does work in diablo? TX

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Aumix does work, grog.

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Of course it does, and of course it's only after I post here about it do I find out what I did wrong :o. I was playing with the system volume control, thinking that just because I could hear the chimes as I changed the volume that it wasn't working. But what I didn't realize is that just by accessing that control it was restoring the volume automatically. So every time I shut it off using aumix, I was turning it back on with the volume control :rolleyes:.

Thanks for the quick response.

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Nice concept, but if you are bothered by the light and don't want to hear sounds why not simply hang the device on the power, and put it off? Then put it on when you wake up. Booting the device has very much improved with Diablo.

Also, what if the device went off while inbetween those 2 cron scripts? The scripts will have to be executed on boot as well.

Then there are weekend days with perhaps different preferences but thats easily fixed in cron.

Perhaps a cron frontend a-la Windows Scheduler would be nice for the NIT.

Have an alarm in the form of an MP3 being your alarm clock.

Nice concept tho but IMO these scripts should also save the current setting IOW save the setting before it goes into 'night' mode, and then in morning return to this original setting before it went into 'night' mode. Currently. reminds me of ALSA in its early days, hehe.

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Can you setup several scripts? For example, I have classes on different days that I'd like it to auto mute on.

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Try using http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/cron-generator.shtml to generate your crontab lines. You can have as many lines in the crontab file as you want. Just remember that aumix -w 0 will mute, and aumix -w 90 will unmute.

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

I unmute with 'aumix -w 93', since 93 is the default volume in a brand new NIT.

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Thanks! Though I have a question.. say..

0 10 * * * aumix -w 0

That would mean 10 AM on a Sunday it would mute my n800 using aumix.

Now I can set one up for each day.. but is it possible to say.. create a crontab that does Monday, Wed, and Friday? Or would I need three different crontabs? For example, could I do something like this?

0 10 * * 1,3,5 aumix -w 0

Or would I need

0 10 * * 1 aumix -w 0
0 10 * * 3 aumix -w 0
0 10 * * 5 aumix -w 0

And if so, could I put them all in one textfile instead of having an individual text file for each one?

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Ok, thanks for the help everyone. I've written the file and loaded it with crontab.. so I guess I'll find out Monday *crosses fingers*.

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

I have been using this syntax and works well.

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Good, that's what I used. :)

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

So here's how I did my cron-scripts. First line changes volume to mute/max, and second line switches Instant Message -led on/off.

Setting stuff OFF.
Setting stuff ON.
To make the screen turn off in case you have charger connected:
Here's the whole crontab. http://mikma.reaktio.net/maemo/crontab.txt

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Much nicer solution. Thanks Mikma

Re: Automatic Muting via cron
 

Does anyone know whether gconftool can mute & un-mute the volume, i.e. not set to zero, leave the volume set to whatever level it is, just mute & un-mute? TX