Is there an RTC chip in the Receiver so it would be possible to display the time, and additionally use it as an alarm clock ;-)

Don't know, but if not, couldn't it query the server software for
the current time every once in a while?

/Michael

Don't know, but if not, couldn't it query the server software for the current time every once in a while?
which could give you an atomic clock if the serving computer is synchronized with some internet time-server...

Frank van Gestel

It would be cool if we could write something to use NTP as well from the Rio - so that you don't need to modify the server software (which is impossible, since it's not open source).

Now that and an internet time server would be coool.

Paul.

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Edited by phaigh on 07/05/01 09:11 AM.

The box knows the time; it's in all the http responses. The server can easily be NTP synced.

An alarm clock is on the wishlist, but with provisos: there's no RTC, so it needs a server connection (also needs one to be able to play some noise, though it could make beeps I suppose). If the input power goes off/on, the unit will not start the CPU until you press the power button - so it would miss alarms in this circumstance.

Hugo