[For testing] Radio Alarm for Ubuntu Touch

[janvle]

Radio-alarm

One of the things I like: waking up to good music. So I made a radio alarm app.

• It plays an internet stream URL
• It has customizable volume, fade-in-time and snooze time
• It shows a notification dialog with snooze option
• It has fall-back audio if internet connection fails

It is based on systemd timers and services. For details: see the documentation.

For the first alarm, you need to type or copy/paste full URLs in the app. Not the nicest UI-design, I know. The ones below may get you going:

• http://icecast.omroep.nl/radio4-bb-mp3
• http://icecast.vrtcdn.be/klara-high.mp3
• http://radios.rtbf.be/classic21-128.mp3
• http://as-hls-ww-live.akamaized.net/pool_23461179/live/ww/bbc_radio_three/bbc_radio_three.isml/bbc_radio_three-audio=128000.norewind.m3u8

For the fall-back audio you also need a URL (of a local audio file).

Limitations

• the app is unconfined, because I have not found confined ways to
  • show a notification dialog (I am not the only one, see https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11375/send-notification-locally-from-qt-c-qml-app.)
  • create/delete systemd service and timer files in ~/.config/systemd/user (the app uses QProcess to do that)
  • play audio streams (internet or local) windowless (in the background); I now use an executable built on GStreamer
• all alarms are off after reboot
• the notification dialog disappears after a period of 10 minutes; to switch an alarm off after that time, open the app and tap 'Stop running alarms'
• you can test station URLs and alarms, but the UI is quit provisional

Testing

If you feel like trying it out: please do & comment!

• download the source https://gitlab.com/janvle1/ut-radioalarm-3
• build with clickable