Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

I find that very interesting too :). Finding ActionManager actually led me to Shepard, which although I haven't gotten through the whole post yet seems very kewl. Let's see where that takes us :).

Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

I've just had some problems getting this working, which seem to be down to the way that alarmed calls python. From a default install under PR1.2, alarmed crashed after 7-8 seconds of the progress indicator spinning around, and returned me to the desktop. Based on previous debug instructions, I tried to run /opt/alarmed/alarmed.py, which produced the error
I checked that python was indeed installed; according to dpkg it was, but no binary called 'python' to be found on the system. After some head-scratching, it turns out to be because the python binary is installed as /usr/bin/python2.5 while alarmed is looking for a binary called just python.
and it worked. :-)

You may like to consider making alarmed die with a suitable error message if it can't find the python interpreter, or making alarmed look for python2.5, or creating the symlink during installation, if exists /usr/bin/python2.5 and not /usr/bin/python.

Regards,
Keith

Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

While Action Manager looks promising it doesn't do much yet (just headset in/out controls). On the other hand Shepard sounds great but there's not even an app available yet :). That seems to be the one to watch though. HTH

Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

On my PR1.2, both /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python2.5 are owned (dpkg -S /usr/bin/python{,2.5}) by package python-minimal, so not sure how you got one file and not the other.

Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

This starts to look like a dependency issue in Alarmed. I installed on a virgin N900 so it would have installed (in theory) whatever python components it depends upon. On checking with dpkg, /usr/bin/python2.5 was owned by package python2.5-minimal (which was installed with alarmed), but python-minimal was not installed. I have installed it myself and Alarmed continues to work fine.

So, I'm guessing that the recent version of Alarmed moved to a dependency on package python2.5-minimal, but that that package does not provide /usr/bin/python, it provides (only) /usr/bin/python2.5. This would only show up on a virgin install to a system that didn't already have python-minimal, which would also explain why it's not a more widely reported issue.

Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

Thanks for reporting this. I don't depend on any python but only python-alarm and the qt bindings I use because they will pull in wathever python they need. I guess it is best if I'll just use python2.5 then, instead of python.

I'll update the package when I get the chance...

Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

That must have just changed because the information I gave was from an n900 I reflashed about two weeks ago or so.

Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

That would be great but, until that is implemented, you can place your commands within a script and use the suid bit to execute it as root. That is what I have done to execute the OptimizeN900 script from alarmed:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=72

Greetings.

Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

How do I run Media Player with this?

I want to run Media Player as an alarm to wake up to, I can't figure out the exact command to do this.

Thanks!

Re: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
 

If you care enough, You can now vote for Alarmed in the competition:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=764039

:-)




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