MultiAlarm - The alarm for your iBook/PowerBook

MultiAlarm - aka iBook Alarm

After the beta release of iAlertU, it got some people thinking about making their own version that would be made for free and work on the ibook/powerbooks, well after multiple releases and multiple failures im proud to release a version which hopefully will be free of bugs, but we all know thats never going to happen.


Description:

Theres also a video of the alarm in action with salling clicker -- Video

What i need from the apple community is for people to test it and post their responses here or on the site, if you find a bug or it doesnt work for you please tell me

If you do run into trouble please try to be as descriptive as possible, also try to run the below command and give me the results.

Code:

/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType

If anyone would like to make some icons for MultiAlert it would be great

 

billy, thanks for the reply but i need more infomation, things like:

do you have growl installed
what machine is it, powerbook hi-res?
etc

also if you ran those cmds i gave you in the orignal post i would be able to see why it wouldnt work

 

ok guys i think i found the problem with the powerbooks, ive made the program into 2, one for hirespb and one for normal pb, if you have a PowerBook can you try both

DOWNLOAD -- for normal powerbooks (Application)
DOWNLOAD --for hi respowerbooks (Application)

PS. if you leave a comment about success or failure leave this info :

do you have growl installed?
what machine do you have?
do you have SMS on your machine?

 

Its good to hear its working now with the powerbooks, i might have to make it 2 versions until someone gets me the solution on how to detect which machine its runnin on

im planning on making it have a menu to enable and disable, this will allow me to add many features, if anyone is good and the interface builder and applescript please tell me

 

yeh just noticed i must of skimmed past, umm ok ill give you a cmd to put into terminal, then simple copy and paste all the info into here or PM me

/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType

that cmd will give me a brief over view of your hardware including the SMS

 

yeh sorry to say it, but your powerbook doesnt have SMS on there, but on my todo list evetnually is to add a alarm to your keyboard and mouse, etc

 

ok well normally that says if the SMS is activated :S

umm did you try both versions?

 

thanks for that data and the cmd it may help me later, umm i would suggest maybe a full restart so like turn it off completly and try turning it on again (i suggest this cuz i heard it can turn it back on)

 

WOW MacUpdate is just amazing with in less then a hour i have had over 100 downloads,

UPDATE: Salling Clicker scripts added and Support system online

PS. someguy, did you ever get it to work?

 

Yeh, well if you havnt you should try the levelwidget, it uses SMS so it could be another program you can try it with

 

Well after alot of help from Shaun, i have been able to add a interface and add arm and disarm buttons, also from the help of kel on applescript.net i have been able to code a password system.

Now this version is very buggy, but if you find a fault please tell me

Current Bugs:
When alarm is set off, it is near impossible to use interface — fix : right click on dock icon and quit application
Volume is not being set correctly

DOWNLOAD NOW — Both editions

TODO:

Customisable voice speech
Inbuilt screen flash
Password to disable alarm when sensors detect movement
Remove the dock icon and move up into menu bar — Now put off until further notice
Remote control API script so that there is scripts to enable and disable on the go
Return Sound to normal when disabled
Add detection of what system it is currently running on
Prefrence File

CHANGE LOG:

Version 3.0.1
Added GUI
Plays disarm sound
Requires password to disable
sets volume to 50% when disarmed
Uses AMSTracker — NOT IN BETA

Version 2.3
Split into two seprate programs to work with powerbooks
Changed sounds to match with iAlertU

Version 2.2 — Added machine detection, Thanks to bob who left a fake email address

Version 2.1 — Fixed up minor bugs
Build 0.3 — Repaired parts of program and Added application icon

Version 2.0 — Mofified and added the following:
Removed menu bar items
Changed Application quit keys
Added Growl notifications
Minor touch ups
Added dialog to warn user and keep alarm going

Version 1.4 — Inital Release

 

I do actually need someone with a hirespb to help me test the latest build with AMSTracker