Re: [pyAlarm-users] OS X Work

[Dave F. <da...@da...>]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 8:17 pm, Nick Allgood wrote:
> Just thought id let yall know im still working on it and still want to be
> apart of this project.

Just relax.  :)  This isn't a job or anything, it's a free time sort of thing, 
so whatever you're willing to give is what we're happy to take.

I did want to comment that I'm finding the pyQt3 rewrite to be a lot better 
than the old wxPython versions.  I run two alarms per day, one at 6:30am for 
my wife to get the kids to school, and then a later one for me to get to 
school.  Since I added the ability for the mixer to grab the sound card 
levels, then max the whole thing out, then restore the old sound card levels, 
she's no longer just turning off the speakers.  She's actually hitting the 
stop button, which means it's already setup for the next alarm.  I actually 
have a total of 4 alarms set, 3 of which run on different days because I wake 
up at different times on those days.

Added bonus, if she's surfing the web while I'm still sleeping and hits a 
stupid website that has sound effects, she's not accidentally blaring them 
(our computer speakers in there are pretty loud).

I haven't run into stability issues yet.  It did segfault randomly after 
running for about 4 days straight, but the segfault happened in the middle of 
the day after we were all already awake.  So keep an eye out for that 
segfault.  I'm going to add some more verbose logging (read: enable the debug 
logging facility) to hopefully track down that segfault, but it hasn't 
recurred, and I've run it for longer than 4 days since then.

I also haven't examined the sleep log yet, but I have used it already to 
verify that the alarm went off one morning where I slept through it.  That 
was nice to have.  Even with the wxPython version I could never be sure that 
I slept through the alarm or that it didn't go off, so I could never be sure 
how stable it was.

Dave

> Regards,
>
> Plazma