some help needed!

[RAKY0311]

what i need to make x-lobby to wake up me at 6:00am with a song and connect to internet (dial-up) and receive the last updated weather data.
thanks

[Colby]

Me too, except not 6:00 am more like noonish. I know there is a plugin, I just want a detailed step by step how to set it up.

[RAKY0311]

hey colby I just installed you skin,excelent job!

[Colby]

thanks
If we get this alarm plugin thing figured out we can have our alarmclock weather/ headline news page.

[dgemily]

First download XEvent plugin and install the files in a repertory « XEvent » of the xlobby plugins directory then start xlobby. XEvent
Go to the set up, plugins tab, select XEvent and press config :
Copy and past in “trigger event” plugin something like:

Every-year every-month every-day-except-weekend|06:00|alarm:play alarm|alarmclock

Where “alarm” is an eventgroup of your skin and “play alarm” is your event that you want to launch.
“alarmclock” is a name that you give for this application
so, create an event “play alarm” with all commands that that you want to execute at 6:00 (play file song, refresh weather, goto weather screen etc...)
your event “play alarm” will be execute everyday at 6:00 except weekend

to add a snooze button,
create an other event to execute your alarmclock file song named i.e. “repeatalarm” in the eventgroup “alarm”.
then create an event with 2 commands (2 under-event) the first to stop the alarmclock file song, the second, a command plugin:XEvent with command= “add delayed event” and in parameter write something like :

10|alarm:repeatalarm|snooze

where snooze is the name of this xevent command. And then assign this event to a button on your screen.

To stop your alarmclock and your snooze process, create a button assigned to an event named i.e. “stopalarm” with 2 commands, the first to stop the alarmclock file song, the second, a command plugin:XEventwith command= “Delete Event” and in parameter write the name of your plugin event that you want to stop, here is snooze

Later,

[RAKY0311]

thanks,i follow you steps and working in that right now,my progress is slow thanks .

[ptrinchi]

Yes, I agree with dgemily's explanation.
If you encounter problems let us know.

Just to remind you :
This plugin has 4 functions.

1 - Add event to ... add event. The variables must be like 2004 every-month 05|14:00|goto:goto menu|test1 to launch every 5th of the month at 2 pm a goto menu event or every-year every-month every-day-except-weekend|06:00|music:play|wakeup to launch a wakeup event every working day at 6 am.

2 - Add delayed event to add an event without knowing the date and time to execute it, but just the delay before launching event. The param must be like 5|music:play|newwakeup for a delay of 5 minutes.

3 - Delete event with param like wakeup to delete the event created before in point 1.

3 - Increase delayed event to add time to one event. param like 5|newwakeup

Just one bug known, I've got problems to launch a multi-event that contains plugin event like meteo for example.

[dgemily]

thx Ptrinchi

[ryang]

Does this plugin support wake up from hibernate or standby?

Thanks,
ryang

[alaricljs]

ryang, only the BIOS can wake a machine out of standby or hibernation. I know you can set these wake-up events in the BIOS, I've never found a util that lets you program them from within windows.

[badubo]

ryang, only the BIOS can wake a machine out of standby or hibernation. I know you can set these wake-up events in the BIOS, I've never found a util that lets you program them from within windows.

no, the task scheduler can also wake up the computer from hibernate (there is an option in the properties page)
But the plugin of ptrinchi works only in collaboration with xlobby (so when xlobby is up and running)

[ryang]

So, I assume I can set a wakeup event in task scheduler for say 10 minutes before the Xevent and it should execute in Xlobby 10 minutes later, right?

Thanks,

ryang

[alaricljs]

I checked this out on my HTPC at home. The task scheduler woke the PC from sleep state, but not from hibernate. Hibernate being equivalent to power-off apart from state being saved to disk and restored on power-on.

[badubo]

Such possibility depends of the motherboard you have. Some settings in the bios may need also changes. (on power management)

On my HTPC, a scheduled task can wake up the computer even in hibernate state (like the one you describe)