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What I find is that most alarm clock apps do not have features like to wake up to radio(FM/streaming), wake up to a preset/randomized playlist or podcasts, grad

rakoo 8y ago
> wake up to radio(FM/streaming) It's probably not feasible from an alarm clock app but rather from a radio app: I have found happiness for this use case with radiodroid (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.programmierecke.radiodroid2&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.programmie...)
- JetSpiegel 8y ago
  > It's probably not feasible from an alarm clock app It can trigger an arbitrary intent.
dsego 8y ago
My wife's Xiaomi phone has some woman speaking Chinese every morning (not sure what she's saying, we don't speak it), which reminds me, need to find a way to turn it off.
- skripp 8y ago
  She's telling you the time and weather. Depending on the circumstances she will add some tips like "Put on sunscreen", "bring an umbrella" or "put on a mask to protect against pollution". First time I heard the latter one I was like "I'm living in one of these dystopian sci-fi films I love so much...". edit: To get rid of it, just change the alarm sound. It's nothing special, just one of the options.
yegle 8y ago
This is a supported feature on Google's Clock app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.deskclock https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... You can trigger a Google Assistant routine including turn on the lights, report the weather and start playing podcasts.
- billfruit 8y ago
  Does it use the alarms's volume level for playing the podcast or does it use the media volume level? Strangely it does not seem to support playing media/playlist/radio from google music as alarm. Even more strangely it all requires to be set up using Google Assistant, I mean is there someway to configure it without using voice commands to the Google Assistant, which is a tedious and cumbersome interface for such a complex functionality.
reaperducer 8y ago
What I find is that most alarm clock apps do not have features like to wake up to radio(FM/streaming), wake up to a preset/randomized playlist or podcasts, gradual increase in alarm volume(android stock app allows a volume ramp up, but its ramping duration is too short). Since 2012 you can set the built-in iOS alarm clock to wake up to the song of your choice. From the app: Edit > pick your alarm > Sound > Pick a song > Then select the song you want. It's not great that it can't just wake you up to a shuffled morning playlist, but it's better than a ringtone. (I have mine set to one of the train station jingles from a Tokyo Metro CD.)

rakoo 8y ago

> wake up to radio(FM/streaming) It's probably not feasible from an alarm clock app but rather from a radio app: I have found happiness for this use case with radiodroid (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.programmierecke.radiodroid2&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.programmie...)

JetSpiegel 8y ago
> It's probably not feasible from an alarm clock app It can trigger an arbitrary intent.

dsego 8y ago

My wife's Xiaomi phone has some woman speaking Chinese every morning (not sure what she's saying, we don't speak it), which reminds me, need to find a way to turn it off.

skripp 8y ago
She's telling you the time and weather. Depending on the circumstances she will add some tips like "Put on sunscreen", "bring an umbrella" or "put on a mask to protect against pollution". First time I heard the latter one I was like "I'm living in one of these dystopian sci-fi films I love so much...". edit: To get rid of it, just change the alarm sound. It's nothing special, just one of the options.

yegle 8y ago

This is a supported feature on Google's Clock app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.deskclock https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... You can trigger a Google Assistant routine including turn on the lights, report the weather and start playing podcasts.

billfruit 8y ago
Does it use the alarms's volume level for playing the podcast or does it use the media volume level? Strangely it does not seem to support playing media/playlist/radio from google music as alarm. Even more strangely it all requires to be set up using Google Assistant, I mean is there someway to configure it without using voice commands to the Google Assistant, which is a tedious and cumbersome interface for such a complex functionality.

reaperducer 8y ago

What I find is that most alarm clock apps do not have features like to wake up to radio(FM/streaming), wake up to a preset/randomized playlist or podcasts, gradual increase in alarm volume(android stock app allows a volume ramp up, but its ramping duration is too short). Since 2012 you can set the built-in iOS alarm clock to wake up to the song of your choice. From the app: Edit > pick your alarm > Sound > Pick a song > Then select the song you want. It's not great that it can't just wake you up to a shuffled morning playlist, but it's better than a ringtone. (I have mine set to one of the train station jingles from a Tokyo Metro CD.)