KitchenAlert is a timer application for maemo5 (in practise Nokia's N900 device), -designed to suite especially cooking and baking purposes. A new -version (0.2.0) is now available.
-
KitchenAlert obeys the volume setting of the device. It is highly +designed to suite especially cooking and baking purposes. The latest version is 0.4.0.
+
+KitchenAlert obeys the volume setting of the device. It is highly recommended to test whether you can hear the alert from where you will be keeping your phone before actually using it to alert you of something. During phone calls all alerts are omitted.
@@ -33,34 +30,38 @@ something. During phone calls all alerts are omitted.
Features and bugs
+ Features
+and bugs
-
Multiple
-timers can be run simultaneously.
-
-
-
- The alarm
+timers can be run simultaneously. Timers can be saved. They can also be
+set to be opened when the application starts (but this slows down the
+startup significantly).
+
+ The
+alarm
sound
can
be set
by the user. Any sound file type supported by the platform (e.g. mp3,
vaw, aac (used in ringtones)) can be used. If you want to use an .ogg
-file, you need to have the package ogg-support installed on your N900.
+file, you need to have the package ogg-support
+installed on your N900.
You can even set an mp4 video as the alert sound, and the program will
use its audio stripe.
A default alarm sound is also provided. The current one is modified
-from a
- public domain doorbell ring. The loudness of
+from a public
+domain doorbell
+ring. The
+loudness of
the default sound is chosen on basis of not hurting your ears if using
-headphones at high volume. On noisy situations a louder sound may be needed.
+headphones at high volume. On noisy situations a louder sound may be
+needed.
The
alert sound
@@ -76,28 +77,60 @@ application sometimes auto-minimizes itself when the device is
unlocked. Sometimes the "stop" button needs to be pressed twice to
silence an alert (the first one stops it, but the sound keeps playing).
Running several timers for several hours risks draining
-your battery.
-
+your battery.
+The sound system of the device is restarted during install/update.
+Should the restart fail for any reason the device would be left
+completely mute. Restarting the device will restore the sounds.
+
New in version 0.2.0
+New
+in version 0.4.0
-
-
- improved and finger-friendlier user interface -
- removing alerts from the list is now possible -
- the alert sound is now played also when MediaPlayer is playing. (Loud alert sound may be needed for hearing it over the music, though.)
+- timers can be set "sticky" (loaded automatically when the program starts)
+- stopped (and non-started) alerts now show their full time (instead of 00:00:00) and "stopped" in status field
-
- alert sound no longer jams when several timers alert close to each other
-- stopping one alert no longer silences all alerts
-- zero second alerts alert now
+
in version 0.3.0
+ +-
+
- saving and loading of timers
+
+
in version 0.2.1
+-
+
- the
+alert sound can again be changed even if there are no alerts in the
+list
- - a new default sound and a new desktop icon +
in version 0.2.0
+-
+
- improved +and finger-friendlier user interface +
- removing +alerts from the list is now possible +
- the
+alert sound is now played also when MediaPlayer is playing. (Loud alert
+sound may be needed for hearing it over the music, though.)
+
+ - alert +sound no longer jams when several timers alert close to each other +
- stopping +one alert no longer silences all alerts +
- zero
+second alerts alert now
+
+ - a +new default sound and a new desktop icon
Download
@@ -106,7 +139,9 @@ install KitchenAlert on your N900 from the extras-devel repository. However, as usual for -this repositories, it's not necessarily safe: keep in mind the above cautions on volume and battery drain. Remember to close the repository after installing to +this repositories, it's not necessarily safe: keep in mind +the above cautions on volume and battery drain. Remember to close +the repository after installing to avoid unwanted updating of your applications to development versions.
Bug reports and feature requests are welcome on the application's garage project