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[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
Does Smarter Alarm skip all-day events in google calender?

or is it smart enough to realise its a holiday?

Today I have all day event 'St Patrick's Day (N. Ireland)' in my calender when I look at it - although its one of those holiday's that has been automatically put in on my google calender

I noticed it said there was nothing going off in my calender though today :)

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] devrruti:
Works great, it is an incredible useful app.

I want to use a spanish voice. It is fine while reading some things like the news in spanish, but some parts are funny "spanglish". It pronunciates english words with spanish accent like "time", "the weather is..."

Can this be corrected?
[Android Apps and Games] hoseth0711:
Just added danish translation
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
I'm putting out an update tonght that localizes the app to Spanish, so it should sound less funny.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
An update will go out tonight with the Danish localization included.

Thanks for helping to translate!
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
I'll be putting out an update tonight that will include the ability to set the number of quotes that you would like to have read.

Thanks!

Edward
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
Thanks - I'll try it this morning :)
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
In a future update would it be a big task to be able to organize the order things are read out?

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] sandystorm:
I think I will try it and hope it works on the Fascinate
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/expanding-google-news-for-more-variety.html

are changes to google news going to impact the app? :)
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Hey everyone,

Sorry for the long radio silence. I've been hard at work on a new project :)

I found time to put out a new version of Smarter Alarm:

- Now reads your Google TASKS

- Set a custom message for EACH alarm. (Smarter Alarm will read the label of each alarm).

- Customize the order in which each of the feeds are read.

- Portuguese translation.

Thanks!!
[Android Apps and Games] Robrecht:
Those are some cool new features!

I noticed that the task reading strings aren't up for translation yet on crowdin.net. Are you planning to add them to the xml file? Just let us know and I'll update the Dutch translation.
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
It might be good for an alert if Google Calender is selected and not authorized to say it isn't authorized.... Instead of being blank
[Android Apps and Games] Sry0fcr:
Excellent app! I'd like to use it as a complete replacement for the AOSP Desk Clock app, could you add a timer/chronograph? Change the name to "Smarter Clock" or something. lol
[Android Apps and Games] sweborn:
Added swedish translation.

It is possible to have a separate language-file instead of having the file baked into the app?
[Android Apps and Games] MrPendulum:
Absolutely love this, but some suggestions:

1) Please add Australian news, so I can get my local headlines.

2) I think it was asked before, but perhaps the option to play music (at reduced volume) throughout the entire process.

3) Any chance of currency tracking? ie, how the AUD is performing vs the USD, etc.

Other than these, this is perfect!
[Android Apps and Games] Liam G:
Ive just ried several times to download the free version but although it shows up an market it wont load the page, Ive even tried to load it through other sites using links to the page but it cant be found.

Am i doing something wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] abward:
Some Requests

Thanks Edward for a nice app! I was wondering if you could consider the following couple of requests:

1) The font is too hard for me to read without my contact lenses in, i.e. at night. An adjustable font size would be great.

2) I would like for the screen saver mode to NOT kick in. I want it to act like a clock all the time.

3) If #2 was available, then it would be nice to be able to dim the screen at night. So, have a start time, stop time, and dim level for dimming each day.

If these are in the purchased version, I will buy it immediately.

Again, thanks for a very useful app!
[Android Apps and Games] hsaithan93:
Hey Edward

Can i have an answe for my problem please ?

Every time i enter Smarter Alarm i get an pop says that i dont have tts files and it get me to the market

I have google tts and svox tts and i dont know whats the problem cause its annoying and i already paid

Please need help
[Android Apps and Games] vengel:
Great idea and very useful app...its like I have my personal butler!

Now waking up to the beeping of alarm clock seems like a waste of precious time..:D

It would be great if you could add support for setting up multiple alarms with custom feed info for each in the future.
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
Updated to ICS on my phone and I found the narrator is talking quickly without gaps between the news stories again, so they all sound like they are merging into one story.

Didn't happen the other day on Gingerbread - so maybe its just ignoring the pauses in ICS? thanks
[Android Apps and Games] thewarhawk:
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[Android Apps and Games] Aganar:
Must make note to give this a try.
[Android Apps and Games] prisonnet:
I love this app, great work!! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Aganar:
Not bad! I think my biggest problem is that the stock android voice is just horrible. Not the kind of thing I'd want to be woken up by in the morning.
[Android Apps and Games] medo159:
Downloading and testing now, great app and idea Edward, keep the good work up :)
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Thanks for the words of encouragement! If you have any awesome feature requests, please let me know!

I just added generic HTTP GET/POST requests to a webservice when the alarm sounds. One user wanted smarter alarm to make a GET request to automatically turn on the lights in his bedroom when he wakes up. I thought it was genius!
[Android Apps and Games] thewarhawk:
Love this app..works great..my only request is maybe add the option to control whether the alarm is routed through the headset or hdmi, i put my phone on a dock every night and it would be nice to be able to hear the sound through the speakers I have hooked up to it

EDIT: Nevermind! it already routes through hdmi..I dont know why it didnt do it earlier
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
In a future version maybe it could include routing through to an internet radio after the news.... ? :)
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
Maybe the app menus and such could be holo-ized in a future update :)
[Android Apps and Games] ob1silvia:
Hello I have had this app running on my s6 for years got an s8 dose not work
[Android Apps and Games] matejdro:
Can we get a video or something? I want to hear it.
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
that is pretty cool!

as already mentioned, custom feeds might be cool,

multiple alarms or configurable for weekend/weekday (i get up at 5.30am weekdays and really don't want an alarm going off at a weekend if i forget to unconfigure it) :)

Perhaps integrate with twitter feed and read something from there?

Can anyone suggest any nice free voices that work well with this?
[Android Apps and Games] inuyasha84:
I don't understand how to change voice, in voice settings I only see Pitch, Speech rate and British accent options. (I have PicoTTS installed and set to italian, but smarter alarm keeps speaking english).
[Android Apps and Games] unubtanium:
Jupp, waking up to Mr. T would be awesome :D
[Android Apps and Games] trekkie1701c:
Working just fine on my LG Optimus S, and would like some of the features suggested (custom RSS, background music, etc).

Some other things I haven't seen mentioned (I may have missed them, so sorry if it's a repeat): Twitter support (maybe with group support/tweet limits, just in case you watch someone that tweets a lot but don't want to hear 200 tweets in the morning)

Change the order of the alarms; that way you can place something important halfway through just in case you don't wake up instantly

Phone/Google Calendar support: I don't trust Facebook, would rather have a less public way of having my events up (just found out today, for example, that somehow my settings got changed so my address/phone number were posted, don't really want to have people know when I won't be at home).

Other notification support: Read phone notifications, just in case anything went off over night that you missed.

As for voices, wouldn't mind a few other choices. Maybe have an actual robot voice if it'll sound good (hey, it is an android :P)

Probably will pay if there ends up being a paid version, since I do like to know what's going on before I even get out of bed in the morning.
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
check settings -> voice and speech recognition perhaps...
[Android Apps and Games] ilhe1s:
Suggestions:

Option for reporting on added stocks and not the DOW, SMTP and Nasdaq.

Option for reporting on gmail or exchange calanders.

TIA
[Android Apps and Games] Flozzo:
This app is a great concept, but it isnt working for me at all:

When I set an alarm (with just name and time enabled) and press Hear Alarm, itll update info untill

-I rotate my screen, itll just stop

-It stops and I get an FC

Im using a Samsung Galaxy S. ..
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
edited post somehow got added as a new post instead.
[Android Apps and Games] thedicemaster:
looks like having a space in the zip-code(zip-codes are in 0000 AA style here) causes a lot of FC's.

it seems to cause FC's when refreshing data(right before the alarm goes off) and when checking the settings.

EDIT: is it normal that the alarm doesn't go off while my phone is in standby(screen off)?

i just tested, and my alarm didn't go off untill i turned my screen on which was a few minutes late.
[Android Apps and Games] Dafferen:
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[Android Apps and Games] trekkie1701c:
Alright, a few bugs I've noticed (this is using a LG Optimus S, which has 2.2.1 on it/ThundeROM and an 806 OC)

-Weather will not play unless you manually disable then re-enable it

-Had a crash on data update

-After crash/restart lock screen did not work; screen will turn off but buttons will turn it back on. This is a rather major issue as it means that anything could happen with the phone while it's in my pocket.

Going to try a few different ideas to see if I can fix the lock screen isssue on my own as a workaround :P

EDIT: Doing a full powerdown/restart fixes it, it seems.
[Android Apps and Games] sageDieu:
My only suggestion would be to include some more voice options. If you could make it sound like Jarvis from Iron Man or something like that, like computerish but realistic then it would be awesome.

Bugs/issues:

It takes forever to download the information it needs, I hit hear alarm and it's been sitting there for about five minutes saying it is updating.

If I receive a text message while it is updating, the keyboard stays open behind the dialog. This is with GO SMS. might be your issue, might be theirs.

All in all, this is a great idea, good app, just needs some more work and refinement.

Sent from my Galaxy S.
[Android Apps and Games] jr10000:
will give it a try!!! Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] alovell83:
I've been testing this for 10 minutes, and I'm having the same problem. This has to be priority #1. As nice as the little brightness/DIM button in the top right is, it's not something I'm going to employ during a night's sleep. Also, a problem with that concept is that, AFAICT, you need to hit the same button to bring it out of that DIM mode. Touching anywhere on the screen to reset to default brightness would be preferable (perhaps, if the only way to do it is after hitting the button -> button resizes to take up the whole screen).

Different bug, it seems to me that there is a problem with the alarm time calculation/subtraction. If I set the alarm for 2 minutes from now, it says the alarm is going off in 1 minute, if I set it to go off in 1 minute, it says it will go off in 24 hours.

I couldn't adjust the volume from within the app or by my volume toggle switch. User definable snooze time would be required at some stage, probably shortly after multiple alarms per day, for now it can wait.
[Android Apps and Games] willsurg:
hi on a rooted EVO here, I have noticed that my entire phone does a force restart before the alarm goes off, while my screen is in standby. Im not sure if it has to do with juice defender being active and all the radios off at that time in the morning, but I wil check tonight and get back. also I would like to request an escalating voice if posible, or where the volume gets gradually lounder as you continue to ignore the alarm :)
[Android Apps and Games] trekkie1701c:
Did not go off for me this morning (fortunately I didn't need to get up early). Previous testing was done where the alarm went off while the app was open, maybe it's just not taking focus properly?
[Android Apps and Games] Caelte:
I'd love to have an option that makes Smarter Alarm tell me the time each x minutes after pressing snooze (where x is defined by the user).
[Android Apps and Games] chalkitychalke:
Awesome app, I love the idea!

However, the app deactivates my lock screen when it's active. I have to kill the app process in order to get my lock screen back. Running on an HTC Aria with 2.2 Sense custom ROM.
[Android Apps and Games] oski252:
thanks sounds really cool................................
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Hi Guys!

OP and developer here. Thanks to everyone for all your valuable and constuctive feedback! I'm learning how amazing this community is!

I just released a new update (v1.3) on the Android Market. It mainly contains a lot of bug fixes to fix some of the FC issues everyones been having. Sorry, I'm trying to stabilize the app for users before adding more features. Rest assured, more of your features are on the way (once I can get a little more time!)

Besides the bug fixes, here's whats contained in the update:

- Custom RSS feeds spoken to you

- Smarter Alarm speaks the current date and time to you

- Undim the screen by pressing anywhere on the screen

Some feature's that are already confirmed for upcoming releases:

- Multiple alarms

- Alarm track/tune play for a configurable time before reading starts.

- Google calendar API integration

- Statusbar icon when alarm is enabled.

- Option for reporting on added stocks and not the DOW, SMTP and Nasdaq.

Please email me at eddie dot kim at google's email service dot com for any force close issues. This is still a beta app and I'm working hard to make it more stable. Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] sageDieu:
Awesome, love the update! Thanks!

Sent from my Galaxy S.
[Android Apps and Games] alovell83:
Woah, I didn't install the update, but just a minute ago my pocket said hello to me and proceeded to continue talking to me before even installing the update. Two things were of note compared to my tests yesterday, 1st the screen was off when it started. 2nd the app wasn't loaded. Yesterday, I had tried with the app open and screen off/on and it had only worked when the screen was on.

I just installed the update, I'll play around a bit more with it.
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
Still seems to fend off the lock screen when running - can that be fixed?

feature still for my wishlist would be a couple of twitter items from my feed :)

thanks for a cool app!
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
Market seems to suggest it is version 1.2
[Android Apps and Games] fpietter:
Great idea

Great App to be free.. needs some development to be more useful and configurable but still rocks!:)
[Android Apps and Games] bazzlad:
Maybe I'm mental but,

For me, the very first and most important thing to hear would be my calendar appointments?!

The app is superb, not found any bugs yet, other than the aforementioned disabling of the lock screen.

This is my absolute dream alarm:

"Good Morning Richard,

It's 90 degrees in your town with the forecast predicting blue skies all day.

Today on YOUR BUSINESS CALENDAR:

At 9am Meet John Smith.

At 10.30am Eat some sushi.

Today on YOUR PERSONAL CALENDAR:

At 11pm Drink some beer."

The news in your town is as follows:

Local man called Richard wins the lottery.

Your RSS feeds are as follows:

Aston Villa Feed:

Aston Villa win the Premier League.

Birmingham City cease existing.

Now get out of bed."

- So you're pretty close so far!

CALENDARS PLEASE! :D :D :D
[Android Apps and Games] Caelte:
Please seperate todays weather forecast from tomorrows in the options.
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Thanks for your suggestion. I will have google calendar and local news added as features very soon.

Thanks!

Edward
[Android Apps and Games] bholi:
not working on my phone.help plz.
[Android Apps and Games] trekkie1701c:
@bholi: Could use a bit more info to be able to offer help on that :P

Anyways tested it out this morning, worked alright, though still didn't seem to want to bring the alarm out while the screen was off. Lock screen also went away after the alarm went off, but rebooting still fixed it.

Would be nice to have those two bugs fixed, I don't like leaving my screen on at night (even dimmed; when I woke up in the morning I had a bug typing out a text message on my screen - not a computer bug, but actually had one on the screen triggering the keyboard in the messaging app), and don't want to have to reboot my phone after the alarm since it takes awhile to come back up (I run a lot of apps).
[Android Apps and Games] Coolaaron88:
I have a wonderful idea

If your alarm lets say was to go off at 9am, When it hits nine, an alarm noise goes off then to hear the voice start talking you flip you phone over and then it starts off with "Good Morning [insert name here] and so on.

If you wanna kill the voice then you just flip your phone back over. Genius!
[Android Apps and Games] SeanBlader:
Doesn't work as well when you have a phone with a kickstand.

But this app is absolutely awesome. I installed the British Victoria voice and am looking forward to tomorrow morning. Actually it makes me want to setup some bluetooth speakers in my bedroom to get better integrated sound from it. If this replaces the stock alarm app, I could see donating $20 to it's continued evolution.

How about configurable so that it can be configured as the full news for an alarm, or a custom message, or just any tune on your device. I wouldn't necessarily want the news to play to remind me to take a vitamin for example.
[Android Apps and Games] sageDieu:
How do you change voices?

Sent from my Galaxy S.
[Android Apps and Games] alovell83:
@Dev, I noticed today that when the alarm is going off we can't dim the screen, we either have to click snooze/dismiss which kills the voice/news. I'd like to be able to continue having the news read with an option to turn the screen off, or at least dim the screen. I'm sure it's coming, but just thought I'd let you know in case it's an easy implementation that you didn't realize about the snooze/dismiss being unable to circumvent. Thanks!

Currently a minority of devices and not everyone with a kickstand leaves the device standing for their usage, besides, it'd still be a good option and a good reason to not use the kickstand...choice, it's what Android is about. I personally love DroidAlarms flip to snooze, even if it does make me use the snooze more (I have the option to limit the amount of snooze's it allows me, but nuts to that).
[Android Apps and Games] docflower:
im running pheonix 2.5 on a captivate. the alarm does not work for me. i really like the idea of the alarm, but cant seem to get it to work. ive set it for a day in advance as well as minutes in advance. regardless of my settings it doesnt seem to work. too bad i really like the idea. suggestions to get it going?

figured it out. like someone mentioned previously the screen needs to be on for the alarm to work. no bueno. still dope prog.
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
two days in a row now the alarm hasnt gone off because the screen was off...

if that was fixed it would be a most awesome alarm...

that and the ability to have a weekday/weekend alarm and/or multiple alarms...
[Android Apps and Games] MiG123:
haha able to add currency pairs into the mix as well?
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Hello all,

This is Edward, the developer. Sorry for the delay, but there was much to fix! I've just released an update (v1.3) of Smarter Alarm. Once again, it's mainly a bug-fix update. Hopefully it should work out most of the major bugs, especially the one with the alarm not going off. I can't tell you guys enough how helpful this community has been to me. It's my goto place for bug reports and feature requests. You guys have made Smarter Alarm even more awesome and I thank you for that!

Here's what's in the update:

* Lockscreen disappearing fix

* Added a screensaver

* Fixed issue of alarm not going off if phone is asleep

* Fixed off-by-one alarm math

* Can change alarm volume while alarm is going off with hard volume buttons

* Fixed: 1:01pm is being read at 1 oh 1

* Can enable/disable Dow, Nasdaq, and S&P stocks

* Many more bug fixes

Please check it out and feel free to report any more issues. As always, I'd appreciate your good rating/comment on the android market to help me out. Once things look like they're more stable, I'll start working on adding more features, especially multiple alarms.

One last thing. I've entered this app into Verizon's VCAST Power Your App contest, with a grand prize of $50k. The semifinal round is about to end and I could sure use your votes. If you could be so kind, I'd really appreciate if you can vote for Smarter Alarm here:

http://www.poweryourappcontest.com/DefaultTwo.aspx

Voting ends in 1 day!
[Android Apps and Games] =NoXiouS=:
Works Xperia X10

Works on my Xperia X10 running branded 2.1:)

I don't know if it will be loud enough to wake me up, but pretty cool.

Not too much relevant to my specific location and uses the less accurate of all available weather feeds for my region(Alberta, Canada). Overall; I quite like it and would like to see a way to get more specific local news like reading headlines from local newspaper website main page or local tv stations main page. Also: It doesn't even get to one of the features I chose and I believe that is because the alarm stops after 1 minute. Some way to overide the 1 minute end of alarm would be good and allow the smarter alarm to continue reading?:confused:
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
The lock screen seems to be better as long as you are not on the appscreen - not sure if it is going off when your screen is off yet though
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Thanks, the lock screen is intentionally diabled on the app screen. This is the default behavior of the stock alarm clock app and I just decided it would be best to mimic that behavior since that is what users are used to
[Android Apps and Games] ben0551:
I lost mobile data connection one morning and the app kept trying to update the weather, but couldn't due to lack of internet connection. I noticed the app was causing my GPS to remain active (maybe instead of a data connection?) Anyway, I noticed this 2 hours after the fact and it severely taxed my battery.

Maybe set the weather update process to sleep for 20-30mins if it cannot find a data connection? Otherwise, great app!
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
Well that was strange!

5.46 on a Monday (17th Jan) morning I didn't expect to get worken up to.

Good morning Mark, today is Sunday January 16 it is 10:something PM....

luckily I knew it was monday..
[Android Apps and Games] edawerd:
Hey guys,

First of all, I just wanted to thank you again for your support in helping me make this app better

Secondly, I'm happy to announce that the app made it to the semi-final round of Verizon's "Power Your App" contest! I'd really really appreciate if you could please vote for my app at http://www.poweryourappcontest.com. Smarter Alarm is competing in the information category

Thank you again for your time and I'll promise to continue development on this app to make it the best alarm app ever!
[Android Apps and Games] radiosilence:
This is quality. WELCOME TO BLACK MESA LABRATORIES.
[Android Apps and Games] Lothaen:
haha awesome