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Hi there.

I wrote a small App that acts as a GUI front-end and CLI-wrapper to maemos alarmd scheduler back-end. It's written in python and uses the PySide bindings to Qt.

Feature list:

• Set all of the below to be executed at specific intervals (every minute, hourly, on specific weekdays, on last day of month etc...):
  • Recurring alarms
  • Reset the GPRS data counter
  • Switch to online/offline mode
  • Switch the profile to silent/general or any ProfilesX profile
  • Switch bluetooth on/off
  • Execute a custom command
  • More 'cron-like' stuff like this
• Saving presets for comman line executions
• Enabling and disabling events
• Complete CLI-Interface
• Support for Cron syntax like "23,26 */3 1,2 * *"
• Support for date syntax like "now + 10 minutes"

Notes:

• Support for ProfilesX dropped in favour of Tweakr profiles
• If it should happen that you create an event and for some reason it gets lost from Alarmed's menu/list, but still exists and acts, look in /var/cache/alarmd/alarm_queue.ini and you'll find your event somewhere at the bottom. It comes with a "cookie", which identifies it. For example: "cookie: 886". You can then use the CLI interface to delete the event. It will tell you it doesn't exist, but it will nevertheless delete the backend-event:
  
  Code:

  /opt/alarmed/alarmed.py -CD 886

  Don't mess with the alarm_queue.ini, you might do serious damage!

Allright, if you have read all this, you may install the App from extras-devel

Here are some screenshots:











Changelog:
0.1.4-2:

• Added flight mode enable/disable (thanks to rlinfati)
• Fixed a bug in gprsdataresetter.py (thanks to rooted)
• Slightly less frequently crashing due to some workarounds. Is stable at times, but still crashes at random due to pyside bugs.

0.1.4-3:

• _Much_ more stable due to more workarounds (thanks avoozl on #pyside). Couldn't get it to segfault even once anymore!

0.1.4-4:

• Fixed missing python-alarm dependency (thanks to hcm)

0.1.5-2:

• Temporarly removed dbus from menu as it's not working anyway
• Made it possible to put real commands with arguments and everything into the command exec line!
• Added profile switching for silent and general profiles

0.1.6-2:

• Added support for switching tweakr profiles!
• A few small bug fixes
• Switch to .sh files for small scripts

0.1.6-3:

• Small fix in tweakr profile switching

0.1.7-1:

• Added relative event settings ("tommorow", "next tuesday...", "in x seconds/minutes/hours/days")
• Small bugfix in tweakr profile switching

0.1.7-3:

• Small bug fixes

0.1.8-1:

• Massive restructuring of code
• Complete CLI interface added (see /opt/alarmed/alarmed.py -Ch for help)
• Added support for cron-like strings, e.g. "23,26 * 1,2 * *"
• Added support for date-like strings, if you have coreutils installed, e.g. "now + 10 minutes"
• Minor bug fixes, probably introduced a couple of new ones.

0.1.8-2/3:

• small fixes and fix for people not having bash installed (thanks evad)

0.1.9-1/2:

• Cleaned up dependencies, no more boost! Pyside ftw.
• Added bluetooth switch
• Added saving/loading presets when using command line execution!

0.1.9-3/4:

• GPRS counter reset fixed, resets both home and roaming at the same time.

0.1.9-5:

• Switched around alarm buttons and added info message to alarm dialog.

0.1.9-6:

• Improved list layout (no more sideways scrolling)

0.2.0-1:

• You can now toggle (enable and disable) events!

0.2.1-1

• Fixed a small bug that prevented events from being saved.
  Also incorporated patches by hunludvig and ForeverYoung:
• UTF-8 for text
• Removed tweakr support, instead added support for ProfilesX
• Alarm buttons fixed
• Fixed bug where deleted item remains in list
• Improved cron syntax
  Thanks a lot for the contrubution!

0.3.0-1

• New: Switching to a specific network (as requested by rotoflex)
• New: Builtin functions: Switch to 2G, 3G or Dual Mode
• Fixed: Scheduling for 'Next...' now works (as reported by Deserve)

Bug in gprsdataresetter.py: Type of gprs_reset_time key is string, so the proper command line input is:

gconftool-2 -s /system/osso/connectivity/network_type/GPRS/gprs_reset_time --type=string $(date +%s)

Stumbled upon it by chance. Was looking for command line option to reset GPRS counter (to use it with fcron), found it here! Thanks.

Thanks! This will be incredibly useful once you've got it stable..

Please, add a option to go offline ( fligth mode ) and go online ( normal mode ), thanks

cortex:/home/opt/alarmed# cat go-online.sh
#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=com.nokia.mce --type=method_call /com/nokia/mce/request com.nokia.mce.request.req_device_mode_change string:"normal"

cortex:/home/opt/alarmed# cat go-offline.sh
#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=com.nokia.mce --type=method_call /com/nokia/mce/request com.nokia.mce.request.req_device_mode_change string:"offline"

Do I get it right this is a kind of crond with gui? That would be fantastic! But still I'm waiting for it getting more stable as I really depend on a working device

new version! see first post for updates.

Thanks for this one! Fixed in 0.1.4-2.

Added in 0.1.4-2 as a built-in function, thanks for supplying the scripts!

Yep that's pretty much what it is, though the actual daemon (alarmd) is shipped with the n900 already. I just wrote a GUI for it.

thank you very much, exactly what I was looking for

I think the package should depend on python-alarm, it was not installed automatically in my case…

Thanks a lot for your work, very much appreciated.
Unfortunately it will not come up when I try to start it - nothing happens.

@corwin: have a look at my post above, install python-alarm (apt-get install python-alarm as root)

I found that the python-alarm package was missing and had to install it manually. Could this be a dependency issue that needs fixing?