[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo alarms ==> retutime

[From: Nils Faerber]

Dirk-Jan.Binnema at nokia.com schrieb:
> Hi Chris, 
Hi Dirk!

>> -----Original Message-----
>> On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 11:33 +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
>>>> Are there any header files/libraries available that provide this 
>>>> functionality that I'm missing? The Clock application has the 
>>>> ability to set alarms that wake the device, so it must be possible.
> The setting of alarms is done through a small cmdline tool called
> "retutime".
> There has been some discussion about it before, google is your friend
> :-)

Well, that is just half of the game, I am afraid.

Google indeed points to a post by Jason Mills:

http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-January/002437.html

In this post Jason also sais:
"... 4) The osso_alarm and osso_notifier daemons are missing at least
from the 2005.51 Nokia build. ..."

I think what Chris, me and others are really looking for is the alarm
framework for application notification, not the mere RTC alarm.

There must be, at least I hope, a clean way to
 - set an alarm by an applcation
 - get notified when alarm is reached
 - remove a pending alarm
 - do not conflict with other alarms (in case two aplications set alarms)

In Familiar/GPE we use atd spooling for this - not necessarily the best
way of handling the problem but it mostly works. And we use the SA1100
RTC to actually trigger the alarm. In this sense retutime serves just
the RTC alarm purpose but I think we are still missing the atd equivalent.

> Best wishes,
> Dirk.
Cheers
  nils faerber

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